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Elizabeth Chu; Andrea Clay; Ayeola Kinlaw; Meghan Snyder – Teachers College Press, 2025
This resource will help leaders transform organizations and systems into thriving ecosystems of learning and growth where every student can succeed. Why do some school systems and organizations outperform their peers despite using similar strategies and materials? Look to leadership, system design, and implementation, not policies and rules, and…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Transformational Leadership, Communities of Practice
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van Winkelen, Christine – Learning Organization, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the use of developmental evaluation methods with community of practice programmes experiencing change or transition to better understand how to target support resources. Design/methodology/approach: The practical use of a number of developmental evaluation methods was explored in three organizations over a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Communities of Practice, Educational Change
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Yu, Shengquan; Yang, Xianmin; Cheng, Gang; Wang, Minjuan – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
This paper presents a new model for organizing learning resources: Learning Cell. This model is open, evolving, cohesive, social, and context-aware. By introducing a time dimension into the organization of learning resources, Learning Cell supports the dynamic evolution of learning resources while they are being used. In addition, by introducing a…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Integrated Learning Systems, Information Storage
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Michel, Roberta M. – Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research, 2014
This article details a faculty learning community (FLC) that started in 2009 on the campus of a Midwestern University and has evolved into an interdisciplinary research, teaching and social community of practice and learning called SurPriSe. SurPriSe is an acronym that reflects the interest area of the FLC; Sur for surveillance, Pri for privacy,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Faculty, Communities of Practice, Institutional Characteristics
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Filipovic, Jelena; Jovanovic, Ana – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This qualitative research aims at linking recent findings related to cognition and self-regulated learning with complexity-driven educational framework that promotes Teacher-Learner communities of practice, in which knowledge is generated and constructed through a complex process of reflection and negotiation. Building on the data that was…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Academic Discourse, Metacognition, Learning Strategies
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Griffiths, Paul; Arenas, Teresita – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2014
This study re-visits an organisation that defined its knowledge-management strategy in 2008-9 applying an established strategy-intellectual capital alignment framework. It addresses questions "How has knowledge management evolved at ENTEL, and what lessons can be learnt? Does the strategy-knowledge management alignment framework applied at…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Web 2.0 Technologies, Alignment (Education), Models
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Calabrese, Raymond – International Journal of Educational Management, 2015
Purpose: An appreciative inquiry (AI) collaborative study with 11 school administrators in a highly diverse suburban school district sought to understand if observing and sharing successful school practices/events in a whole group setting led to change in their perceptions, attitudes, and administrative practice. The paper aims to discuss these…
Descriptors: Inquiry, School Administration, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education
Yu, Shengquan; Yang, Xianmin; Cheng, Gang – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
The key to implementing ubiquitous learning is the construction and organization of learning resources. While current research on ubiquitous learning has primarily focused on concept models, supportive environments and small-scale empirical research, exploring ways to organize learning resources to make them available anywhere on-demand is also…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Models, Social Cognition
Gautier, Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The ongoing debate over the definition and application of workplace diversity policies results in a wide range of viewpoints. There are a number of theoreticians who feel that if diversity is more than avoidance of discrimination, that the traditional body of anti-discrimination programs such as the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) efforts…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Knowledge Management, Management Information Systems, Work Environment
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Kellogg, Shaun; Booth, Sherry; Oliver, Kevin – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
A recent phenomenon in the MOOC space has been the development of courses tailored to educators serving in K-12 settings. MOOCs, particularly as a form of educator professional development, face a number of challenges. Academics, as well as pundits from traditional and new media, have raised a number of concerns about MOOCs, including the lack of…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Social Networks, Communities of Practice
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Held, Carsten; Duncan, Glen; Yanamandram, Venkat – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2013
The financial services industry faces many demanding challenges. Firms within this industry are predominantly knowledge-based, as are most of the industry's products, processes and services. The application of knowledge management represents a clear opportunity for financial services firms to confront challenges. However, no industry specific…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Models, Financial Services, Industry
Guzzo, Linda R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Knowledge is a valuable resource that fosters innovation and growth in organizations. There are two forms of knowledge: explicit knowledge or documented information and tacit knowledge or undocumented information which resides in individuals' minds. There is heightened interest in knowledge management and specifically the transfer of tacit…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Community Colleges, Adjunct Faculty, Knowledge Management
Giles-Weeks, Veda – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Age related demographic changes, within public school organizations are resulting in leadership challenges in leveraging organizational knowledge across four unique generational cohorts. Competitive success within schools has linkages to organizational cohesiveness and knowledge management (KM). Generational cohorts maintain values affecting…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Leadership Styles, Communities of Practice, Knowledge Management
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Goodwill, Robyn J. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2012
Within the framework of the strategic journey undertaken between 2005 and 2010, this paper seeks to examine how the University of Melbourne sought to differentiate itself through the introduction and reconceptualisation of a "third stream" of academic work. Specifically, this paper seeks to investigate, through qualitative methods, how…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Communities of Practice, Technology Transfer, Barriers
Gau, Wen-Bing; Wen, Chen-Hao – Online Submission, 2011
In a turbulent time, communities of practice (CoPs) have become an important mechanism to develop organizational learning. Because of the rapid changes of global market and population structure, organizations in the private sector keep examining their leaning processes to adjust themselves to different challenges. However, few studies try to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Organizational Culture, Learning
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