An online community of practice to enhance small group learning and teaching

Tim Griffin; Lynn Burnett

An online community of practice to enhance small group learning and teaching

Tim Griffin
, Lynn Burnett

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper › peer-review

Abstract

As blended learning places more content online, it also places greater emphasis on students' class-time engagement and learning. Ensuring the quality of small group learning and teaching is especially challenging in large enrollment, first year undergraduate courses. In addition, the example course relies on sessional tutors who are dispersed across the week and three campuses. The focus of this paper is on the face-to-face tutorial component of a blended learning model and the professional development and support of sessional tutors, including an online 'community of practice', that supports and enhances tutors' teaching. Example posts from the community of practice are mapped onto community of practice principles and preliminary evidence of engaged tutors and students is presented.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2014 World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 27-30 October 2014
Publisher	Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
Pages	729-735
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	9781939797124
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate_Government_Healthcare_and Higher Education - Duration: 27 Oct 2014 → …

Conference

Conference	World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate_Government_Healthcare_and Higher Education
Period	27/10/14 → …

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education

Keywords

distance education
web-based instruction
blended learning

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Griffin, T & Burnett, L 2014, An online community of practice to enhance small group learning and teaching. in Proceedings of the 2014 World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 27-30 October 2014. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, pp. 729-735, World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate_Government_Healthcare_and Higher Education, 27/10/14.

An online community of practice to enhance small group learning and teaching. / Griffin, Tim; Burnett, Lynn.
Proceedings of the 2014 World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 27-30 October 2014. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2014. p. 729-735.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper › peer-review

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An online community of practice to enhance small group learning and teaching

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