Graduate Professional Education from a Community of Practice Perspective: The Role of Social and Technical Networking Export

@incollection{CLEE_2_13, abstract = {This chapter describes the value and means of re-visioning graduate professional education as an activity that occurs at the intersection of three topics: practice, pedagogy and digital culture. The chapter considers social computing applications as a mechanism to support a shift in the context of graduate professional education from schooling for transfer to situated engagement. The Community of Practice model of learning supports this shift in roles and activities for students and faculty by increasing peer-to-peer engagement and opportunities to engage with experts and expert practice beyond what is locally available. Recognizing that practitioner-students often are not involved in vital, active, engaged, professional communities outside their workplace, and that many faculty members in teaching universities are, likewise, not centrally involved in a larger research community, the chapter offers a view of social and technical networking tools that create participation structures to bridge these communities. The chapter illustrates these ideas by reference to two graduate blended programmes (combining online and face-to-face settings).}, address = {Charlotte, NC}, author = {Polin, Linda}, booktitle = {Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Envronments for Educators}, chapter = {13}, citeulike-article-id = {2662159}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_2/Chapters/Chapter_13.html}, editor = {Kimble, Chris and Hildreth, Paul}, keywords = {blended\_programme, blog, book, chat, clee, graduate\_education, higher\_education, podcasting, professional\_education, social\_computing, tapped-in, threaded\_discussion, web\_20, wiki}, pages = {267--286}, posted-at = {2008-04-12 20:47:41}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Information Age Publishing}, title = {Graduate Professional Education from a Community of Practice Perspective: The Role of Social and Technical Networking}, url = {http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_2/Chapters/Chapter_13.html}, volume = {2}, year = {2008} }

TY - CHAP ID - CLEE_2_13 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2662159 N2 - This chapter describes the value and means of re-visioning graduate professional education as an activity that occurs at the intersection of three topics: practice, pedagogy and digital culture. The chapter considers social computing applications as a mechanism to support a shift in the context of graduate professional education from schooling for transfer to situated engagement. The Community of Practice model of learning supports this shift in roles and activities for students and faculty by increasing peer-to-peer engagement and opportunities to engage with experts and expert practice beyond what is locally available. Recognizing that practitioner-students often are not involved in vital, active, engaged, professional communities outside their workplace, and that many faculty members in teaching universities are, likewise, not centrally involved in a larger research community, the chapter offers a view of social and technical networking tools that create participation structures to bridge these communities. The chapter illustrates these ideas by reference to two graduate blended programmes (combining online and face-to-face settings). AD - Charlotte, NC EP - 286 TI - Graduate Professional Education from a Community of Practice Perspective: The Role of Social and Technical Networking PB - Information Age Publishing VL - 2 T2 - Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Envronments for Educators SP - 267 KW - blended_programme KW - blog KW - book KW - chat KW - clee KW - graduate_education KW - higher_education KW - podcasting KW - professional_education KW - social_computing KW - tapped-in KW - threaded_discussion KW - web_20 KW - wiki AU - Polin, Linda A2 - Kimble, Chris A2 - Hildreth, Paul PY - 2008/// UR - http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_2/Chapters/Chapter_13.html ER -