Communities of practice as agents of future faculty development

AM Stark, GA Smith - The Journal of Faculty Development, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
The need for faculty development continues to increase despite the limited resources of
many developers to serve growing demands. To address this conundrum, we explore …

What is a community of practice?

B Mercieca - Communities of practice: Facilitating social learning in …, 2017 - Springer
Communities of practice are voluntary groups of people who, sharing a common concern or
a passion, come together to explore these concerns and ideas and share and grow their …

Creating and facilitating communities of practice in higher education: Theory to practice in a regional Australian university

P Reaburn, J McDonald - … of practice: Facilitating social learning in higher …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Communities of Practice (CoPs) have been operating successfully at Central
Queensland University Australia (CQU) since 2009. The major purpose of this chapter is to …

Increasing Access to Care: Designing a Blended Curriculum to Educate Adult Hospice Nurses in Caring for Pediatric Patients

PL McDonald, SM Abdallah, LB Lyons… - Nursing …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Access to care for pediatric hospice patients is inhibited by a lack of providers specifically
educated to care for pediatric patients. Education that seeks to address this gap in care must …

Faculty learning communities and communities of practice dreamers, schemers, and seamers

MD Cox, J McDonald - Communities of practice: Facilitating social learning …, 2017 - Springer
The authors articulate the independent emergence of Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs)
in the United States and Communities of Practice (CoPs) in an Australian higher education …

From isolation to collaboration: development of a community of physical education teachers in pandemic times

HJ Ferreira, K Patton, M Parker - Movimento, 2023 - SciELO Brasil
The purpose of this study was to explore the development of a group of Brazilian Physical
Education (PE) teachers, who struggled with remote teaching, into a community of practice …

Using technology to enable flipped classrooms whilst sustaining sound pedagogy

MD Sankey, L Hunt - ASCILITE-Australian Society for Computers in …, 2013 - learntechlib.org
This paper initially provides an understanding of what constitutes a flipped classroom model.
It then provides a series of four case studies that describe the application of some different …

Flipped university classrooms: Using technology to enable sound pedagogy

M Sankey, L Hunt - Journal of Cases on Information Technology …, 2014 - igi-global.com
The three case studies in this paper show how flipped classroom approaches can facilitate
the renewal of university teaching. The case studies form part of a scholarship of teaching …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging virtual communities of practice during crises: A sustainable model validating the levels of peer motivation and support

O Fayez, H Ismail, H Aboelnagah - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The purpose of this study is to validate the role of social media among peers in a virtual
community of practice, VCoP, by applying the Delphi technique of data collection and …

It ain't just what you do and the way that you do it: why discourse matters in higher education communities of practice

J Ryan - Higher Education Research & Development, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
A number of Australian universities have established and sponsored interdisciplinary
communities of practice (CoPs) to develop teaching and learning. CoPs are popularly …