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Abdelmalak, Mariam Mousa Matta – Online Learning, 2015
The purpose of this action research was to explore students' perspectives regarding using Web 2.0 technologies to develop a community of learners. The course described in this study was a fully online course in an Educational Learning Technologies master's program at a medium-sized university in the U.S. Southwest. A variety of Web 2.0 tools…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Student Attitudes, Student Journals, Reflection
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Dymoke, Sue – Oxford Review of Education, 2017
This paper explores the impact of a Spoken Word Education Programme (SWEP hereafter) on young people's engagement with poetry in a group of schools in London, UK. It does so with reference to the secondary Discourses of school-based learning and the Spoken Word community, an artistic "community of practice" into which they were being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poetry, Oral Language, Oral Reading
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Breunig, Mary; Murtell, Jocelyn; Russell, Constance – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2015
In Canada there exists a noteworthy educational initiative referred to as Environmental Studies Programs (ESPs). These secondary school programs are interdisciplinary, helping to link subject matter and encouraging student responsibility. The results of three case studies of Ontario ESPs indicate that program participation has "real…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Environmental Education, Integrated Activities, Secondary School Curriculum
Ens, Anita H.; Boyd, Karen; Matczuk, L. Allyson; Nickerson, Warren T. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2011
As members of a language and literacy doctoral cohort, we four authors attempt to situate ourselves within a community of practice in which knowledge is socially constructed. In this context, we explore our identities as collaborative writers and researchers. This paper documents the self-study that we undertook while collaboratively writing…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Discourse Communities, Graduate Students, Collaborative Writing
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Clarke, Lane Whitney; Bartholomew, Audrey – Online Learning, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate instructor participation in asynchronous discussions through an in-depth content analysis of instructors' postings and comments through the Community of Inquiry (COI) framework (Garrison et. al, 2001). We developed an analytical tool based on this framework in order to better understand what instructors…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Teacher Participation, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Content Analysis
Homana, Gary A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The relationships between a multidimensional model of school community and civic engagement were examined using survey data collected for the 1999 IEA Civic Education Study from large, nationally representative samples of adolescents in Australia and the United States. This study extends previous research by considering the extent to which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discourse Communities, Democracy, Citizenship Education