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Building “Community of Practice in an Urban-Commuter University”

Building “Community of Practice in an Urban-Commuter University”. Outline. Introduction - Background, Problems, Purpose, Importance Literature review - relevant literature on the topic. Methodology - Data collection - Data Analysis. Background.

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Building “Community of Practice in an Urban-Commuter University”

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  1. Building “Community of Practice in an Urban-Commuter University”

  2. Outline • Introduction - Background, Problems, Purpose, Importance • Literature review - relevant literature on the topic. • Methodology - Data collection - Data Analysis

  3. Background • One project, five different stories • Inspired by Dr.Lee’s sharing of knowledge • Observe the tension between researchers and practitioners at ATEC in Austin2005 • -Software engineer, art museum library director, MD-Anderson librarian, science educator, computer lab technician.

  4. The problems • Students left schools with full range of knowledge and experience without sharing them with others (Brown, Duguid, 1995) • Limited accessibility to faculty, other students and professionals in practice • No systems or places to support students’ research activity. No shared practice or collective identity.

  5. The purpose of this project • Long term vision: To build COP in our education department. - possible shared practice to move on from community to Cop - Information exchange - Knowledge sharing and building - Social support

  6. The problem again. • Here is irony. We gathered to solve the problems, but we encountered different types of obstacles while we were engaged in this project - Conflict interest and different focus - Different working styles - Time constraint. - Different degree of engagement - Culture and communication issue - Even power struggle

  7. The purpose of this study 1.To identify the reason why core members are involved in this project. 2. To identify how to cultivate Cop design process as community builders and core members. 3.To identify the conflicts and how to resolve them

  8. The importance of this study • To offer critical and balanced view of Cop design process. • Few research has been done on the roles of community builders in urban-commuter university. (Neither 100% online nor face-to-face only) • To maintain trust and reduce tension among core members.

  9. Research questions • What is the motivation for the core members who join the project? - What is the object to achieve from the project? • How to cultivate the process of building COP? • What conflicts occurred? How to resolve them?

  10. The process of designing COP • The first face-to-face meeting (Feb 4th) • Set up base-camp tool (Feb 6th) • The second face-to-face meeting (Mar 9th) • The completion of survey items. (Apr 16th) • Launch Cop web site and plan social meeting Potential-Coalescing-Maturing-Stewardship-Transforming • We are slow, but we are moving.

  11. The degree of engagement Coordinator(1) Active members(2) Active Peripheral * Much more dynamic process than Wenger’ description.

  12. Literature review • Wenger ‘s states in the development of a community of practice. (as sited in Janson, A & Howard,L) • Wenger’s seven principles for cultivating communities of practice. • Brown J.S(1998) Universities in the digital age. • Lave, J., & Wenger, E. (1991) Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. • Learning community (Jonassen, Peck & Wilson, 1998) Bounded community, Dynamic community (Wilson, 2004) , Distributed inter-university community (Bonk, 2006)

  13. Ethnographic case study • Particular people in specific situation • Multiple sources of evidence will be gathered during data collection • Data collection - Survey with open-ended questions and follow- up interviews - Observation and transcription of two face-to- face meeting - Electronic messages such as emails and transcription of discussion forum messages.

  14. Data analysis • Activity theory - It is a descriptive tool that is useful for analyzing and understanding collaborative work in general such as web development, software development , or major league baseball team. • Computer-mediated discourse analysis to analysize discussion forum messages in base camp

  15. Final thoughts and quote • “Synergy” is rooted from sunergeo in Greek. Na (sodium) and Cl (chlorine) = NaCl (sodium chloride)= salt. • Did you feel something missing here? - four different stories will come soon. • Comments or ideas?

  16. Stenhouse(1985) has referred to four styles of case study methodology 1) Ethnographic case study 2) Action research case study 3) Evaluative case study 4) Educational case study

  17. Herring’s CMDA • Medium variables - synchronicity - 1 way vs 2-way message transmisstion - persistence of transcript - size of message buffer - channels of communication - anonymous messaging - private messaging - filtering - quoting

  18. Herring’s CMDA • Situational variables - participation structure - participant characteristics - purpose - Topic or Theme - Tone - Activity - Norms - Code

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