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Mompoint Gaillard, Pascale; Rajic, Višnja – Online Submission, 2014
Communities of practice as organisations of learning have developed different forms as: task-based, practice-based or knowledge based communities (Barab et al., 2004). The paper presents a case study of a successful community of practice developed under the umbrella of Council of Europe Pestalozzi programme for teacher development. The programme…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Virtual Classrooms, Faculty Development, Program Descriptions
Walsh, Rachael – Online Submission, 2008
Since 1965 the federal government has attempted to provide low socioeconomic status students with equal access to postsecondary education through the Higher Education Act and its multiplicative programmatic efforts. Implemented as one such program in 1998, the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs, or GEAR UP, has been…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Program Effectiveness, Educational Policy, Disadvantaged