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Forming and Maintaining Communities of Practice in Online Professional Development

Description: This presentation explores building your own community of practice, addressing mindsets that may limit ideas, and discusses different approaches and frameworks for forming and maintaining communities of practice within online professional development. It was presented at the 2019 Annual Conference of the Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA) held on March 25-28, 2019 in Galveston, Texas.
Date: March 27, 2021
Creator: Ledford, Jenna & Roy, Meranda M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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Of Institutions, Initiatives, and the Importance of Regional Academic Communities: Building NYCDH

Description: Video recording of a presentation at the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Kimon Keramidas and Alex Gil discuss how the New York City Digital Humanities group enables a wide variety of communities of practice, and the importance of regional communities in facilitating the growth of new academic fields, such as digital humanities.
Date: September 22, 2016
Duration: 25 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Keramidas, Kimon & Gil, Alex
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The Canadian Web Archiving Coalition: An update

Description: Presentation for the 2019 International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference. This presentation briefly describes the history of The Canadian Web Archiving Coalition and provides an update on it's current status, including recent developments and lessons learned.
Date: June 6, 2019
Creator: Gagné, Carole; Worby, Nicholas & Davis, Corey
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Partner: International Internet Preservation Consortium
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Barriers to Active Participation in VCoPs of a Brazilian Public Sector Company

Description: This paper describes the research undertaken in a Brazilian company of the public services sector with the objective to identify the reasons why participants of virtual communities of practice (VCoPs) do not actively participate in their communities.
Date: November 10, 2018
Creator: Costa Ribeiro, Nara Viana; Watanabe Wilbert, Julieta K.; Aparecida Dandolini, Gertrudes & Artur de Souza, João
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Barriers to Active Participation in VCoPs of a Brazilian Public Sector Company

Description: Presentation for the 2018 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation describes the research undertaken in a Brazilian company of the public services sector with the objective to identify the reasons why participants of virtual communities of practice (VCoPs) do not actively participate in their communities.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Costa Ribeiro, Nara Viana; Watanabe Wilbert, Julieta K.; Aparecida Dandolini, Gertrudes & Artur de Souza, João
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Creating Communities of Practice among Librarians in an Online Learning Environment

Description: This poster applies the concept of an online community of practice in an effort to suggest how librarians can join together as a community to learn and to share ideas, strategies, and tools related to effective teaching and learning. It was presented at The Exchange an Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS)/Library and Information Technology Association (LITA)/Library Leadership and Management (LLAMA) Collaboration held virtually on May 4, 6, & 8, 2020
Date: May 6, 2020
Creator: Roy, Meranda M.
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A Study Of The Perception Of Cataloging Quality Among Catalogers In Academic Libraries

Description: This study explores the concept of "quality" in library cataloging and examines the perception of quality cataloging among catalogers who work in academic libraries. An examination of the concept of "quality cataloging" in library science literature revealed that even though there is some general agreement on how this concept is defined, the level of detail and focus of these definitions often vary. These various perceptions were dissected in order to develop a framework for evaluating quality … more
Date: December 2011
Creator: Snow, Karen
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Life Coaches, Communities of Practice, and Everyday Life Information Seeking and Practices: An Exploratory Case Study

Description: Life coaching is a rapidly expanding industry that focuses on client development, enhancement of life experience, and goal attainment often when clients are experiencing personal, professional, and social change. Online communities of practice (CoPs) provide opportunity for individuals to connect, share experiences, and learn from each other under the auspices of a unifying theme or subject. Since the 1990s, CoPs have spread from education to other areas of business and industry and continue to… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Klein, Janette Dorlene
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Trends of Knowledge Sharing in Communities of Practice (COP) in University Libraries: Library and Information Science Professionals’ Perspectives

Description: This study considers Communities of Practice as a group of library and information science professionals who share their common interests and problems on a topic in order to exchange their expertise and knowledge on that topic. The study sheds lights on the ways of knowledge sharing, and assess the reasons of knowledge sharing of LIS professionals through Communities of Practice in the context of university libraries in Bangladesh.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Roy, Samgeeta; Ali Akanda, A. K. M. Eamin; Hasan, Md Nazmul; Islam, Md. Mahbubul; Haque, Md. Armanul; Roy, Partha Biplob et al.
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Knowledge Management Enables the Transformation from a Global Steel Supplier to a Technology Service Provider

Description: In 2018, voestalpine High Performance Metals decided to significantly invest in Knowledge Management to foster their strategy to expand into new markets. After conducting a thorough global feasibility study involving different stakeholders at multiple locations, a hybrid KM strategy was proposed creating networks of experts and identifying valuable content for re-use supported by a KM Service Portfolio. Members of pilot “communities of Practice” (CoP) were involved in the co-design of KM Servi… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Fratzl, Hubert & Plenkers, Sven
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An Investigation of the Organizational Impact of Computer Technology in Secondary Science Classrooms

Description: This article investigates the organizational impact of computer technology on four secondary science teachers’ teaching actions using the construct of community of practice. Analysis of data reveals three social participation structures that collectively orchestrated students’ science content learning: (1) students’ membership, (2) access to the structured tasks, and (3) confirmation of students’ learning of science concepts.
Date: June 13, 2021
Creator: Subramaniam, Karthigeyan
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Partner: UNT College of Education
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A Behaviorally Planned Community of Practice: A Description and Evaluation of One Area of Staff Development

Description: Staff training packages combining instructions, modeling, practice, and feedback have been shown to be effective in demonstrating skills to work in early intensive behavioral intervention, but maintenance and generalization of the skills trained are often not addressed. Establishing a community of practice, in which staff members continue to learn and develop new skill sets from one another through shared experiences and information, may lead to the endurance and maintenance of desired staff be… more
Date: May 2016
Creator: Ferguson, Julia L.
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Teacher Leadership Implementation: Change Agents in a Large Urban School District

Description: Education reform initiatives continue to push schools to improve methods of measuring accountability intended to improve student achievement in the United States. Federal programs like the Teacher Incentive Find (TIF) provide school districts with funds to develop and implement school accountability and leadership programs. Teacher leadership is one of the concepts being formally developed amongst these initiatives. My applied thesis project focused on work I conducted with a team of researcher… more
Date: August 2016
Creator: Hickling, Alexandra K
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An exploration of the diffusion of a new technology from communities of practice perspective: Web services technologies in digital libraries.

Description: This study explored and described decision factors related to technology adoption. The research used diffusion of innovations and communities of practice (CoP) theoretical frameworks and a case study of Web services technology in the digital library (DL) environment to develop an understanding of the decision-making process. A qualitative case study approach was used to investigate the research problems and data were collected through semi-structured interviews, documentary evidence (e.g., meet… more
Date: August 2007
Creator: Oguz, Fatih
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Sowing the Seeds of Stewardship in Texas: An Ethnographic Study of Nature and Visitor Experience at Texas State Parks

Description: This study uses a mixed methods approach to investigate how individuals perceive nature and engage with Texas state park (TSP) programs and resources while also identifying major barriers that visitors perceive/encounter when visiting TSPs. This study looks through the anthropological lens by using theoretical frameworks such as habitus, presentation of the social self, space and place, as well as communities of practice (CoP), to better understand the factors that influence the establishment a… more
Date: May 2023
Creator: Saintonge, Kenneth C.
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A Single Case Study of a MakerBus in K-12 Education

Description: MakerBuses are travelling makerspaces that deliver hands-on tools and resources to community-wide locations to foster 21st century learning and development. Often found in K-12 schools, MakerBuses provide accessible and tangible learning opportunities for all learners, even in the most underserved communities. This single, typical case study provided a foundational look at how one MakerBus started as a simple idea and evolved into a learning experience used throughout the community it serves. T… more
Date: May 2021
Creator: Daughrity, Lea Anne
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Organizational Identity and Community Values: Determining Meaning in Post-secondary Education Social Media Guideline and Policy Documents

Description: With the increasing use of social media by students, researchers, administrative staff, and faculty in post-secondary education (PSE), a number of institutions have developed guideline and policy documents to set standards for social media use. Social media platforms and applications have the potential to increase communication channels, support learning, enhance research, and encourage community engagement at PSE institutions. As social media implementation and administration has developed in … more
Date: August 2014
Creator: Pasquini, Laura Anne
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