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Cara Margherio; Anna L. Swan; Selen Güler – Innovative Higher Education, 2025
While the role of teams in leading transformations within academia is increasingly recognized, few studies have analyzed how teams form. Understanding the processes of interdisciplinary team formation within higher education will allow leaders to intentionally bring together individuals and form teams with higher likelihoods of success. In this…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Longitudinal Studies, Communities of Practice, Situated Learning
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Haneberg, Dag Håkon; Aadland, Torgeir – Industry and Higher Education, 2020
This article explores how students learn from venture creation in higher education by using a novel empirical approach: the Zaltman metaphor elicitation technique (ZMET). This inductive research approach provides extraordinarily rich data that enable a thorough and holistic understanding of students' learning processes. The participant selection…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Higher Education, College Students, Communities of Practice
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Li, Fan; Fan, Si; Wang, Yanjun – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Recent years have witnessed numerous systematic investigations on mobile-assisted language learning (MALL). However, very few research synthesis studies focused on the higher education context in mainland China. This paper provides a systematic review of the findings of 23 studies published between 2015 and 2020 in mainland China. The aim of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Second Language Learning, Situated Learning
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Rebecca Buchanan; Liliana Herakova; Leah Hakkola; Mollie Ruben – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Research on communities of practice (CoP) focused on teaching have shown that they are valuable venues for collaborative sensemaking for practitioners. This article reports on a study examining how members of an equity focused CoP at a predominantly white institution in the United States co-constructed meaning around issues of equity through…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Equal Education, Social Justice, Predominantly White Institutions
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Berthaud, Sarah; Mason, Sarah – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2018
The translation industry, as well as Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and translator training, have undergone numerous changes in the last two decades. These changes might explain why there is often a gap between translator training and professional translation practice. In this paper, we argue that situated learning through the development of…
Descriptors: Translation, Teaching Methods, Language Processing, Communities of Practice
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Hinck, Ashley; Tighe, Jennifer – Communication Education, 2020
Drawing on Lave & Wenger's concept of situated learning and Apple's premise that daily interactions at school construct what is considered legitimate knowledge, this article examines the discourses of teaching and learning circulating among students. Through interviews and open-ended, online surveys, we trace how nine different discourses of…
Descriptors: Situated Learning, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Discourse Analysis