Implementing Communities of Practice in Higher Education: Dreamers and Schemers

Front Matter....Pages i-xliii
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Sustaining the Momentum: A Cross-Institutional Community of Practice for Research Supervisors....Pages 3-17
The Role of Higher Education in Facilitating Communities of Practice to Support Health Professionals Practice....Pages 19-28
Building a Network and Finding a Community of Practice for Undergraduate Mathematics Lecturers....Pages 29-51
Communities Practising Generous Scholarship: Cultures of Collegiality in Academic Writing Retreats....Pages 53-80
Using Technology to Build Engagement in a Global Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Community of Practice....Pages 81-106
Researcher Preparation for Indigenous Fundamental Research Through Collaborative Participation....Pages 107-129
Imagining the World: Creating an Artistic Community of Practice in an Academic Environment....Pages 131-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Enabling Stories: Narrative, Leadership, Learning and Identity in a Faculty-Based Teaching Community of Practice....Pages 159-181
Choosing Change: Using a Community of Practice Model to Support Curriculum Reform and Improve Teaching Quality in the First Year....Pages 183-204
Communities of Practice: A Practical Approach to Enhance Student Learning at a South African University....Pages 205-226
A Facilitated Community of Practice: Enabling Student Success in the Blended Learning Environment....Pages 227-252
A Community of Practice for Blended Science and Engineering Learning and Teaching at UniSA....Pages 253-280
Sustainability Focused CoP: Enabling Transformative Education....Pages 281-302
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
A Doctoral Community of Practice: A Spatial Entity Across Social Media....Pages 305-324
A Student-Staff Community of Practice Within an Inter-University Final-Year Project....Pages 325-346
Learning Value and Identity Formation: Social Learning and the Graduate Studies Experience....Pages 347-372
The Practice of Being a Student: CoPs and Graduate Student Success....Pages 373-394
The Lifecycle of a Student-Led Community of Practice in Higher Education....Pages 395-422
Front Matter....Pages 423-446
Meitheal: An Irish Case Study in Building a Virtual Community of Practice in Transitional Times....Pages 447-448
Front Matter....Pages 449-474
Facilitating a Community of Practice (CoP) in the Arts: Connecting Online University Learning to ‘Real-World’ Experience....Pages 447-448
The Australian Chemistry Discipline Network: A Supportive Community of Practice in a Hard Science....Pages 475-499
Bringing Focus Through Community: Social Learning in Online Teaching, Learning and Research....Pages 501-530
Practicing the Practice: The Heutagogy Community of Practice....Pages 531-547
The Connected Community of Practice in Educational Technology: A Model for Future Networked Professional Development?....Pages 549-572
International Collaborative Writing Groups as Communities of Practice....Pages 573-595
Principles of Modeling CoPs for Pedagogical Change: Lessons Learnt from Practice 2006 to 2014....Pages 597-617
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