Exploring online learning for intersecting communities of practice Mackey, Julie and Evans, Terry D. 2012, Exploring online learning for intersecting communities of practice, International journal of web based communities, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 486-503. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Exploring online learning for intersecting communities of practice Author(s) Mackey, Julie Evans, Terry D. orcid.org/0000-0001-5087-5727 Journal name International journal of web based communities Volume number 8 Issue number 4 Start page 486 End page 503 Total pages 18 Publisher Inderscience Enterprises Place of publication Geneva, Switzerland Publication date 2012-09 ISSN 1477-8394 1741-8216 Keyword(s) communities of practice online learning communities professional learning Summary The article reports on some research from a larger project into the connections between online learning communities and communities of practice for teachers’ professional learning. The research was conducted in Aotearoa New Zealand within a university graduate diploma programme on ICT education that is provided entirely online. The research reported here explores the experiences of 15 teachers as they studied the GradDipICTEd programme while working as professionals in their school contexts. The findings indicate that online educators working on professional development courses need to work imaginatively in their curricula and pedagogies to enable learners’ reflexive movements between their online and professional communities. This benefits, not only the students as professionals, but also their professional communities of practice. Furthermore, by so doing, the courses provide for productive relationships between educational institutions and related professional bodies. Language eng Field of Research 130103 Higher Education 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators Socio Economic Objective 939999 Education and Training not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2012, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30048356 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education Higher Education Research Group   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 07 Sep 2012, 14:43:48 EST Mon, 10 Sep 2012, 08:31:08 EST Mon, 10 Sep 2012, 12:14:52 EST Fri, 21 Sep 2012, 11:38:00 EST Fri, 21 Sep 2012, 11:45:43 EST Fri, 21 Sep 2012, 11:46:47 EST Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 15:08:45 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 15:45:27 EST Tue, 03 Feb 2015, 13:15:54 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 747 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 07 Sep 2012, 14:43:35 EST by Terry Evans