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Muth, Rodney; Bellamy, Thomas; Fulmer, Connie; Murphy, Michael – Educational Leadership and Administration: Teaching and Program Development, 2006
An annual-case process that examines principal leadership over the course of a year can provide extensive opportunities for practitioners and professors to collect, examine, and disseminate knowledge in, of, and about practice. Such cases can support professional development and pre-service preparation and become bases for research across multiple…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Principals, Instructional Leadership, Documentation
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Lamsa, Anna-Maija; Sintonen, Teppo – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2006
Purpose: This paper aims to construct an approach referred to as "the participatory narrative" for organizational learning in diverse organizations. The approach is grounded in an understanding of organizational learning as the process of social construction which is narratively mediated. Design/methodology/approach: The participatory narrative is…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Learning Processes, Critical Theory, Knowledge Management
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Changiz, Tahereh; Moeeny, Ali; Jowshan, Reza – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2004
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, as one of the major medical universities in Iran, is an academic organization which is also responsible for all health-related services in Isfahan province. By development of IT infrastructures in the university, top management decided to utilize the capabilities of the growing IT infrastructures in order to…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Information Systems, Foreign Countries, Medical School Faculty
Blankenship, Selena S.; Ruona, Wendy E. A. – Online Submission, 2008
This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study that explored knowledge sharing among members of a community of practice (CoP) in a large, urban high school. Findings suggest that social relationships, informal channels, community culture, levels of trust, and spatial factors influence knowledge sharing, and that CoPs have the potential to…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, School Culture, Educational Environment
Downing, Dick; Lord, Pippa; Jones, Megan; Martin, Kerry; Springate, Iain – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2007
Creative Partnerships (CP) commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research to research the sharing of practice generated through CP within and between schools locally. Based on 93 interviews with teachers and CP staff, the research explored the relationship between the dissemination of the work of CP and the more informal means by…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Partnerships in Education, Interviews, Teacher Attitudes
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Cohen, Sandra; Kaimenakis, Nikolaos – Learning Organization, 2007
Purpose: In recent years a significant number of intellectual capital (IC) metrics has been developed and applied in many organizations. However, there is still a strong need to specify the relations among the different categories of intellectual assets that exist in the context of small to medium-sized enterprises (SME), and to determine the way…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Human Capital, Intellectual Property
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Herrmann, Thomas; Loser, Kai-Uwe; Jahnke, Isa – Learning Organization, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to show that for the successful development of socio-technical systems it is essential that various stakeholders are able to integrate their different knowledge and perspectives. A method that supports knowledge integration in the course of introduction and development of socio-technical systems is the…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Success, Context Effect, Technology
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Madda, Christina L.; Halverson, Richard R.; Gomez, Louis M. – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background/Context: School districts are responsible for helping schools improve learning for students. However, many district initiatives conflict with each other or with existing instructional practices in schools. Recent research on urban school reform points to the value of program coherence in sustaining school change. Our paper addresses an…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Restructuring, Educational Change, Alignment (Education)
Coulon, Arnaud – European Training Foundation, 2009
Teacher and trainer training is one of the most important determinants of the success of reforms in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) systems in recent years in the Mediterranean region. This is based upon the assumption that the role of teachers and trainers in the reform of TVET is a dual one; that of stakeholder and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Teaching Methods, Electronic Learning, Comparative Analysis
Lakkala, Minna; Paavola, Sami; Toikka, Seppo; Bauters, Merja; Markannen, Hannu; de Groot, Reuma; Ben Ami, Zvi; Baurens, Benoit; Jadin, Tanja; Richter, Christoph; Zoserl, Eva; Batatia, Hadj; Paralic, Jan; Babic, Frantisek; Damsa, Crina; Sins, Patrick; Moen, Anne; Norenes, Svein Olav; Bugnon, Alexandra; Karlgren, Klas; Kotzinons, Dimitris – Online Submission, 2008
One of the central goals of the KP-Lab project is to co-design pedagogical methods and technologies for knowledge creation and practice transformation in an integrative and reciprocal manner. In order to facilitate this process user tasks, driving objectives and high-level requirements have been introduced as conceptual tools to mediate between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Programming, Computer System Design, Educational Technology
Auvinen, Ari-Matti – Online Submission, 2008
The "Setting the scene" deliverable of the QMPP project (www.qmpp.net) has been authored by Mr. Ari-Matti Auvinen (HCI Productions Oy) and many QMPP project partners. In addition to the definition of the scope of the project, it includes also a good list of references to the literature of user-generated content as well as good web links…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Vocational Education, Program Descriptions, Peer Relationship
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Schejbal, David; Wilson, David – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2008
Higher education--and continuing education as one arm of that enterprise--is not just an economic engine; it contributes directly and in a multifaceted fashion to the common good. It generates and makes accessible a great deal of the knowledge that drives the economy; it helps develop an understanding of the society and the world for millions of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Continuing Education, Value Judgment, Private Education
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Lenne, Dominique; Abel, Marie-Helene; Trigano, Philippe; Leblanc, Adeline – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2008
In Technology Enhanced Learning Environments, self-regulated learning (SRL) partly relies on the features of the technological tools. The authors present two environments they designed in order to facilitate SRL: the first one (e-Dalgo) is a website dedicated to the learning of algorithms and computer programming. It is structured as a classical…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Computer Assisted Instruction, Technology Integration
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Dawson, Kara; Ferdig, Richard E. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2006
"Developing Acceptable Evidence in Educational Technology Research" (Schrum et al., 2005) and its precursor editorial, "A Proactive Approach to a Research Agenda for Educational Technology" (Bull, Knezek, Roblyer, Schrum, & Thompson, 2005), are unprecedented collaborative efforts by journal editors to influence research in…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Evidence, Educational Research, Reader Response
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Huang, Hsiu­-Mei; Liaw, Shu­-Sheng – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2004
In today's competitive global economy characterized by knowledge acquisition, the concept of knowledge management has become increasingly prevalent in academic and business practices. Knowledge creation is an important factor and remains a source of competitive advantage over knowledge management. Information technology facilitates knowledge…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Knowledge Management, Information Technology, Information Dissemination
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