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Guerin, Cally; Carter, Susan; Aitchison, Claire – International Journal for Academic Development, 2015
As practices and expectations around doctoral writing continue to change, so too do the demands on academic developers and learning advisors. Social media is increasingly playing a role in doctoral education, just as it is in higher education more generally. This paper explores a blog initiated in 2012 to inform and support doctoral writing; since…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Web 2.0 Technologies, Doctoral Programs, Content Area Writing
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Scanlan, Martin; Zisselsberger, Margarita – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2015
Culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students comprise the most rapidly expanding, and among the most educationally marginalized, group in the United States. CLD students' opportunities to learn are often diminished through service delivery models that are deficit-oriented, viewing linguistic diversity as a challenge to overcome, not a…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Partnerships in Education, Student Diversity, Minority Group Students
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Lynch, Meghan – McGill Journal of Education, 2014
This exploratory netnographic study describes how a sample of Ontario kindergarten teachers perceive the new Ontario Full Day Kindergarten (FDK) curriculum. Discussions from teacher message boards, the comment sections of online news articles, and interviews with kindergarten teachers were analyzed and coded using a qualitative approach. Analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, School Schedules, Preschool Teachers
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Melkun, Cheryl Hawkinson – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2012
In November 2008 the Sloan Consortium published "Staying the Course: Online Education in the United States." This study produced survey statistics relating to enrollments in online courses. The study confirmed what most administrators and faculty members already suspected: the growth of online higher education continues to be astounding;…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Discourse Communities, Higher Education, Writing (Composition)