Communities of Practice and On-Line Support for Dissemination and Implementation of Innovation [microform] / Bronwyn Stuckey, Anna Buehring and Sally Fraser.
New tools, whether developed organizationally, commercially, or within a domain may represent innovation in the workplace and can be part of larger scale reform and change. The focus of this research is on exploring the roster of issues arising as the theory of communities of practice is applied to...
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| Summary: | New tools, whether developed organizationally, commercially, or within a domain may represent innovation in the workplace and can be part of larger scale reform and change. The focus of this research is on exploring the roster of issues arising as the theory of communities of practice is applied to specific cases of online professional development of teachers and medical practitioners. This paper is a bounded history of two research projects and their advancement to date. The tools "Prodigy," a computerized decision support system and "StageStruck," a performing arts knowledge construction tool are both recognized in their fields as being innovative in both their use of technology and for their potential to improve the practice within the domain. This paper explores the rationale for developing a Web-based communication and resource area to support a community of practitioners in their implementation of these technological innovations. The dialogue explores the demographics, design, and development issues faced by community managers charged with promotion and support of these innovative products. (Contains 23 references.) (Author) |
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| Item Description: | Availability: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), P.O. Box 3728, Norfolk, VA 23514. Tel: 757-623-7588; e-mail: info@aace.org; Web site: http://www.aace.org/DL/. ERIC Note: In: E-Learn 2002 World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education. Proceedings (7th, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 15-19, 2002); see IR 022 093. ERIC Document Number: ED479614. |
| Physical Description: | 9 pages. |
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