Community-based learning in the networked society Export

@article{citeulike:5764503, abstract = {The networked society has intensified the dynamics of interaction among professionals in the last decade, and the overall trends show that much more still has to come. The key question of this special issue is what qualitative changes we are facing in the coming years, when the learning between practitioners in education reaches a level of what we dreamt of in the 1970s when school-based curricula, team teaching and altruistic ideologies took off. As an extrapolation of the 'Communities of Practice', this introductory article will highlight intra- and interpersonal professional learning, and suggestions for its new orchestration by stakeholders rather than by institutional leaders. As the main theme, the WWW based community will recur throughout the various application fields. The final conclusion will focus on the networked society and its sociological threats and opportunities; teachers' continuous learning should be closely related to the lifestyle of the youth culture, and learning should be practised amongst peer teachers from time to time.}, author = {Kommers, Piet and Kovatcheva, Eugenia}, citeulike-article-id = {5764503}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.metapress.com/content/d4g2q48860141225}, day = {1}, journal = {International Journal of Web Based Communities}, keywords = {cop, learning\_communities, networked\_society, web\_based\_communities}, month = {January}, number = {2}, pages = {253--267}, posted-at = {2009-09-10 01:27:10}, priority = {2}, title = {Community-based learning in the networked society}, url = {http://www.metapress.com/content/d4g2q48860141225}, volume = {4}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5764503 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5764503 N2 - The networked society has intensified the dynamics of interaction among professionals in the last decade, and the overall trends show that much more still has to come. The key question of this special issue is what qualitative changes we are facing in the coming years, when the learning between practitioners in education reaches a level of what we dreamt of in the 1970s when school-based curricula, team teaching and altruistic ideologies took off. As an extrapolation of the 'Communities of Practice', this introductory article will highlight intra- and interpersonal professional learning, and suggestions for its new orchestration by stakeholders rather than by institutional leaders. As the main theme, the WWW based community will recur throughout the various application fields. The final conclusion will focus on the networked society and its sociological threats and opportunities; teachers' continuous learning should be closely related to the lifestyle of the youth culture, and learning should be practised amongst peer teachers from time to time. IS - 2 JF - International Journal of Web Based Communities EP - 267 TI - Community-based learning in the networked society VL - 4 SP - 253 KW - cop KW - learning_communities KW - networked_society KW - web_based_communities AU - Kommers, Piet AU - Kovatcheva, Eugenia PY - 2008/01/01/ UR - http://www.metapress.com/content/d4g2q48860141225 ER -