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Harlow, Ann; Cowie, Bronwen; McKie, David; Peter, Mira – Educational Action Research, 2017
International interest is growing in how threshold concept theory can transform tertiary teaching and learning. A facilitated practitioner action research project investigating the potential of threshold concepts across several disciplines offers a practical contribution and helps to consolidate this international field of research. In this…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Educational Theories, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
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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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Libbrecht, Paul – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2015
Learning resources have been created to represent digital units of exchangeable materials that teachers and learners can pull from in order to support the learning processes. They resource themselves. Leveraging the web, one can often find these resources. But what characteristics do they need in order to be easily exchangeable? Although several…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Educational Resources, Teacher Competencies, Educational Practices
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Carey, Thomas; Davis, Alan; Ferreras, Salvador; Porter, David – Open Praxis, 2015
This paper explores the integration of Open Educational Practices (OEP) into an institutional strategy to develop distinctive excellence in teaching, learning and scholarship. The institution in the case study is a public polytechnic university serving a metropolitan area in Canada. If emerging Open Educational Practices are to flourish at our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, Excellence in Education, Case Studies
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Kavitha, R. K.; Ahmed, M. S. – Education and Information Technologies, 2015
Agile software development is an iterative and incremental methodology, where solutions evolve from self-organizing, cross-functional teams. Pair programming is a type of agile software development technique where two programmers work together with one computer for developing software. This paper reports the results of the pair programming…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Educational Environment, Case Studies, Programming
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Vanhoof, Jan; Mahieu, Paul – Policy Futures in Education, 2013
The concept of "knowledge brokerage" focuses on promoting the integration of the best available evidence into policy and practice-related decisions. In this study, emphasis is put on the knowledge brokerage role of cities. The study aims at finding similarities and differences in existing educational knowledge brokerage initiatives, at…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Case Studies, Educational Practices, Management Information Systems
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Coughlan, Tony; Perryman, Leigh-Anne – Open Praxis, 2015
Open educational resources and open educational practices are being increasingly used around the globe to train and support professionals in areas where funding and resources are scarce. This paper evaluates the open educational practices (OEP) of three global health projects operating outside academia--the International Association for Child and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, Educational Resources, Educational Practices
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
Farrell, Caitlin C. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Increased accountability through federal and state education policies has resulted in a growing demand for educators to access, understand, and utilize the various types of data to adapt their practice. These data include student work, district benchmarks, observation of instruction, and high-stakes state assessments, among others. Despite the…
Descriptors: Data, Educational Improvement, Comparative Analysis, Case Studies
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Walser, Tamara M. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2009
No Child Left Behind has increased data collection and reporting, the development of data systems, and interest in using data for decision-making in schools and classrooms. Ends-driven decision making has become common educational practice, where the ends justify the means at all costs, and short-term results trump longer-term outcomes and the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, Systems Approach, Educational Practices
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Willment, Jo-Anne – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2004
A faculty researcher and six graduate students from the Master of Continuing Education program at the University of Calgary completed a small study of knowledge practices within government, postsecondary, and corporate workplaces across Canada. Interview results include an overview of findings and three narrative descriptions. Analysis produced a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Continuing Education, Role of Education