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Communities of Innovation: Individual, Group, and Organizational Characteristics Leading to Greater Potential for Innovation
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West, Richard E. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
In this paper I will explain what I see as some of the core attributes of "Communities of Innovation," or communities fostering collaborative creativity, and what we have learned from the research literature about each attribute. There is a critical need to design learning environments that foster creative thinking in students,…
Descriptors: Innovation, Creativity, Creative Thinking, Educational Environment
Cultural Reductionism and the Media: Polarising Discourses around Schools, Violence and Masculinity in an Age of Terror
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Mills, Martin; Keddie, Amanda – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
This paper provides a media analysis of three interrelated sets of newspaper articles dealing with youth, schooling and violence. Understanding the media as a dominant and powerful cultural text that creates the realities it describes, the paper takes a critical view of the 'standpoint' of recent media representations of the Cronulla (Sydney,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Safety, Violence, School Security
Using the Learning Sciences and Knowledge about How People Learn to Support Reluctant and Disengaged Secondary School Learners
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Turner, Steven L. – American Secondary Education, 2008
As secondary educators seek strategies to support reluctant and disengaged learners, a greater understanding of the learning sciences (how people learn) becomes more important. This article examines the emerging knowledge base on the learning sciences and investigates how what has been discoveries about how and why people learn have practical…
Descriptors: Sciences, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Secondary School Teachers
Student Perceptions of Social Task Development in Online Group Project Work
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Morgan, Kari; Cameron, Bruce A.; Williams, Karen C. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2009
This article explores student perceptions of social task development in an online group project and poses recommendations for implementation of group projects. Qualitative methods were used to analyze student perceptions of social task development in online group project. Respect, "being nice," follow the rules/follow the leader, communication,…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Learning Processes, Group Dynamics, Group Behavior
Measuring Perceived Sociability of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environments
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Kreijns, Karel; Kirschner, Paul A.; Jochems, Wim; van Buuren, Hans – Computers & Education, 2007
Most asynchronous computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments can be characterized as "functional" environments because they focus on functional, task-specific support, often disregarding explicit support for the social (emotional) aspects of learning in groups which are acknowledged by many educational researchers to…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Interpersonal Competence, Cooperation, Social Support Groups
Avoider and Engager Approaches by Out-of-Class Groups: The Group Equivalent to Individual Learning Approaches
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Yan, Louisa; Kember, David – Learning and Instruction, 2004
This article reports the group equivalents to deep and surface learning approaches by individuals. The learning behaviour of out-of-class student groups was examined through 57 individual and 15 focus group interviews with university students in Hong Kong. A number of types of learning activities were identified and most had variants with…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Group Behavior, Learning Activities, Foreign Countries