Lord, Gemma; Martin, Lynn M.; Warren-Smith, Izzy (2018). Unseen and Unheard? Women Managers and Organizational Learning. Learning Organization, v25 n1 p40-50. Purpose: This paper aims to use (in)visibility as a lens to understand the lived experience of six women managers in the headquarters of a large multinational organization in the UK to identify how "gender" is expressed in the context of organizational learning. Design/methodology/approach: The researchers take a phenomenological approach via qualitative data collection with a purposeful sample–the six female managers in a group of 24. Data were collected through quarterly semi-structured interviews over 12 months with the themes–knowledge, interaction and gender. Findings: Organizations seek to build advantage to gain and retain competitive leadership. Their resilience in a changing task environment depends on their ability to recognize, gain and use knowledge likely to deliver these capabilities. Here, gender was a barrier to effective organizational learning with women's knowledge and experience often unseen and unheard. Research limitations/implications: This is a… [Direct]

Boggess, May; Bowen, Elaine; Gerrior, Shirley A.; Manore, Melinda M.; Pe√±a-Purcell, Ninfa; Schuster, Ellen R.; Zoumenou, Virginie (2012). Extension Professionals' Strengths and Needs Related to Nutrition and Health Programs. Journal of Extension, v50 n3 Article 3RIB2 Jun. We report results of a Web-based nationwide survey of nutrition and health Extension specialists representing 42 states. Survey items (n = 36) assessed five areas: curriculum review, nutrition and physical activity, professional training, communication, and evaluation. An internal curriculum review was common, but few states shared their criteria or process on-line. The majority of respondents reported discussing physical activity, and over half lead physical activities. Most favored on-line professional development training and a one-stop website for sharing information and resources. Evaluation data were most commonly collected for food safety, healthy eating and physical activity, and food resource management…. [PDF]

Kaufer, Blair; Thibou, Shevell; Werder, Carmen (2012). Students as Co-Inquirers: A Requisite Threshold Concept in Educational Development?. Journal of Faculty Development, v26 n3 p34-38 Sep. For over a decade, Western Washington University has sponsored the Teaching-Learning Academy, bringing students, faculty, staff, and community members together as co-inquirers into overarching questions about teaching and learning. In this safe space, participants frame one research question of interest each year; sharing their perspectives and lived experiences to create understandings about education that frequently rise to the level of threshold concepts. In this article we explore some of the results of the co-inquiry process, illustrating the important contributions students make to answering the shared questions and to translating the TLA findings into an enhanced institutional learning environment for everyone…. [Direct]

Ho, Mei-ching (2015). The Effects of Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Peer Review on EFL Writers' Comments and Revisions. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, v31 n1 p1-15. This study investigates the use of face-to-face and computer-mediated peer review in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing course to examine how different interaction modes affect comment categories, students' revisions, and their perceptions of peer feedback. The participants were an intact class of 13 students at a Taiwanese university. The computer-mediated peer review involved "OnlineMeeting," software specifically designed for peer review activities and featuring a split screen protocol, document sharing, and chat room functions. The results of chi-square tests show that overall students offered more revision-oriented comments than non-revision-oriented ones among different writing tasks in either mode. Also, peer review mode affected some types of peer comments to a certain extent. There were significantly more global alteration comments and fewer local alteration comments in face-to-face than computer-mediated mode. While the participants liked comments via… [Direct]

Friedel, Janice Nahra; Wilson, Sarah L. (2015). The New Reverse Transfer: A National Landscape. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, v39 n1 p70-86. For decades, higher education professionals and researchers have used the term reverse transfer to describe a specific group of students. A current review of community college literature and higher education policy reflects a contextual change of the term, and today reverse transfer has grown to include students who transfer from a two-year college to a four-year institution and retroactively receive an associate's degree with their newly earned university credits. The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of the new reverse transfer and the current status of reverse transfer participation and implementation procedure within each of the 50 states. This study also provides a review of the best practices for implementing the new reverse transfer. Results were obtained through an extensive literature review and a qualitative study that used document analysis. Findings show that 18 states had no participation, 11 states had emerging participation, and 21 states had strong… [Direct]

Beijaard, Douwe; Bergen, Theo; Cornelissen, Frank; van Swet, Jacqueline (2013). Exploring Knowledge Processes Based on Teacher Research in a School-University Research Network of a Master's Program. Journal of Educational Change, v14 n2 p139-176 May. School-university research networks aim at closer integration of research and practice by means of teacher research. Such practice-oriented research can benefit both schools and universities. This paper reports on a multiple-case study of five participants in a school-university research network in a Dutch master's program. The research question was: In what way is knowledge based on practice-oriented research by master's students developed, shared, and used in school-university research networks in which education is primarily offered within a university setting? Twenty interviews were conducted, on the basis of logs, over a period of 10 months. Results show that (1) for master's students, the most significant motive for developing, sharing or using knowledge was that the content knowledge about their research topic could be useful to school practice and colleagues; (2) research supervisors reported more than master's students about the procedural knowledge that they had developed… [Direct]

Bogner, Franz X.; Chelioti, Eleni; Cherouvis, Stephanos; Riviou, Katherina; Sotiriou, Sofoklis (2016). Introducing Large-Scale Innovation in Schools. Journal of Science Education and Technology, v25 n4 p541-549 Aug. Education reform initiatives tend to promise higher effectiveness in classrooms especially when emphasis is given to e-learning and digital resources. Practical changes in classroom realities or school organization, however, are lacking. A major European initiative entitled Open Discovery Space (ODS) examined the challenge of modernizing school education via a large-scale implementation of an open-scale methodology in using technology-supported innovation. The present paper describes this innovation scheme which involved schools and teachers all over Europe, embedded technology-enhanced learning into wider school environments and provided training to teachers. Our implementation scheme consisted of three phases: (1) stimulating interest, (2) incorporating the innovation into school settings and (3) accelerating the implementation of the innovation. The scheme's impact was monitored for a school year using five indicators: leadership and vision building, ICT in the curriculum,… [Direct]

Huang, Dijiang; Tsai, Wei-Tek; Xu, Le (2014). Cloud-Based Virtual Laboratory for Network Security Education. IEEE Transactions on Education, v57 n3 p145-150 Aug. Hands-on experiments are essential for computer network security education. Existing laboratory solutions usually require significant effort to build, configure, and maintain and often do not support reconfigurability, flexibility, and scalability. This paper presents a cloud-based virtual laboratory education platform called V-Lab that provides a contained experimental environment for hands-on experiments using virtualization technologies (such as Xen or KVM Cloud Platform) and OpenFlow switches. The system can be securely accessed through OpenVPN, and students can remotely control the virtual machines (VMs) and perform the experimental tasks. The V-Lab platform also offers an interactive Web GUI for resource management and a social site for knowledge sharing and contribution. By using a flexible and configurable design, V-Lab integrates pedagogical models into curriculum design and provides a progressive learning path with a series of experiments for network security education…. [Direct]

Boon, Anne; Dochy, Filip; Kyndt, Eva; Raes, Elisabeth (2015). Measuring Team Learning Behaviours through Observing Verbal Team Interaction. Journal of Workplace Learning, v27 n7 p476-500. Purpose: This study aims to explore, as an answer to the observed lack of knowledge about actual team learning behaviours, the characteristics of the actual observed basic team learning behaviours and facilitating team learning behaviours more in-depth of three project teams. Over time, team learning in an organisational context has been investigated more and more. In these studies, there is a dominant focus on team members' perception of team learning behaviours. Design/methodology/approach: A coding schema is created to observe actual team learning behaviours in interaction between team members in two steps: verbal contributions by individual team members are coded to identify the type of sharing behaviour and, when applicable, these individual verbal behaviours are build up to basic and facilitating team learning behaviours. Based on these observations, an analysis of team learning behaviours is conducted to identify the specific characteristics of these behaviours. Findings: An… [Direct]

(2016). Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities 2016 HACU Annual Report. Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities For over thirty years, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) has advocated on behalf of Hispanic higher education in the U.S. and around the world. The mission of the association is to Champion Hispanic Success in Higher Education. HACU fulfills its mission by: promoting the development of member colleges and universities; improving access to and the quality of postsecondary educational opportunities for Hispanic students; and meeting the needs of business, industry and government through the development and sharing of resources, information and expertise. HACU is the only organization that represents existing and emerging Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). HSIs today represent 13 percent of all institutions of higher education that enroll 62 percent of Hispanic undergraduates. HACU serves its membership through advocacy, conferences, partnerships and educational programs, and offers scholarships and internship opportunities for students. HACU, is a… [PDF]

Berg Svendby, Ellen (2016). (Re)Telling Lived Experiences in Different Tales: A Potential Pathway in Working towards an Inclusive PE. Sport, Education and Society, v21 n1 p62-81. Existing research reveals that there are large discrepancies between the rhetoric of inclusive practice and what actually takes place in physical education (PE) lessons. PE appears to be a conservative subject, where little has changed over the years, despite increased diversity in schools and new modes of movement in society at large. In this article, I will argue that there is a need for "different" ways of knowing, to gain knowledge about the complexity of creating an inclusive PE. My critical interpretive PhD project will serve as a starting point for arguing how narratives can be well suited to help illuminate individual experiences located within broader social and cultural structures. By engaging in self-biographical story sharing from my position as a neophyte researcher, I will highlight some of the theoretical and methodological tensions that I have encountered in my narrative inquiry of embodied experience. Narratives provide insight into the multiple realities… [Direct]

Samuel Cornelius Nyarko (2021). In an Era of Soft Skills: Investigating Teamwork Skills in the Geosciences. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Western Michigan University. Geoscience employers have increasingly called for student competency in three sets of skills — technical, field and soft skills. One major soft skill identified by employers is teamwork, which is critical in laboratory and field-based activities. At the same time, educators seek to inculcate in students a stronger focus on the development of teamwork skills as they are useful for knowledge sharing and problem solving. This interconnected value of teamwork in both the workforce and academia means students' preparation should include learning teamwork in the geoscience. However, before educators can design strategies that help students learn critical teamwork skills, we need to identify what these specific skills are, and how they are enacted in academic and professional employment settings. This research was conducted as a series of studies that explored teamwork from perspective of employers and students through the lenses of input-process-output taxonomy of teamwork model by Marks… [Direct]

Coker, Catherine; Samuelson, Todd; Sare, Laura (2012). Unusual Suspects: The Case of Insider Theft in Research Libraries and Special Collections. College & Research Libraries, v73 n6 p556-568 Nov. The widespread theft of collection materials, including rare and unique items, continues to be an issue of great concern to libraries of all types. The potential loss of such items threatens not only an institution's operations but, in many cases, global cultural heritage. Despite an increasingly open attitude among institutions regarding sharing information about lost items and suspected perpetrators, little scholarship has examined such thefts quantitatively in an effort to draw conclusions about how such incidents occur and how best to prevent them. This paper describes a project that examines data from over twenty years of reported library theft cases in libraries and special collections to determine how frequently such losses are perpetrated by library insiders…. [Direct]

Bassis, Vladimir, Comp.; Burroughs, Monte, Comp.; Burrows, Barbara, Comp.; Gard, Lisa, Comp.; Harris, Alex, Comp.; Nissen, Paula, Comp.; St Clair, Eric, Comp. (2015). The Annual Condition of Iowa's Community Colleges, 2015. Iowa Department of Education Data reported in the Condition Report comes primarily from each of Iowa's 15 community colleges, transmitted each fall to the division's Management Information System (MIS). Upon receipt, division staff review the data for discrepancies and return summary reports to the colleges to confirm accuracy. After confirmation, data files are aggregated for analysis and subsequent reporting. This aggregated data is reported in the Condition Report as dashboards and summative data that provide snapshots of various community college functions, along with related narrative for the reader to gain a more in-depth understanding. In addition, figures depict basic statistics and demographic data for quick reference and to illustrate trends and changes over time. Tables with more detailed data can be found on the department's website. The 2015 Condition Report features two supplemental sections featuring information about innovative data projects underway at the division. Section 17 discusses in-state… [PDF]

Fletcher, Tim; N√≠ Chr√≥in√≠n, D√©irdre; O'Sullivan, Mary (2018). Pedagogical Principles of Learning to Teach Meaningful Physical Education. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, v23 n2 p117-133. Background: Concerns that current forms of physical education teacher education (PETE) are not adequately providing teachers with the tools necessary for working with the realities and challenges of teaching physical education in contemporary schools has led some scholars to advocate for an approach that prioritises meaningfulness in physical education. There is, however, little empirical evidence of how future teachers might be taught to facilitate meaningful physical education experiences. Purpose: This paper describes a pedagogical approach to PETE to support pre-service teachers (PSTs) in learning how to facilitate meaningful experiences in physical education. We aim to contribute new understanding through sharing pedagogical principles that support PSTs' "Learning About Meaningful Physical Education" (LAMPE). Participants and setting: The research team consisted of three physical education teacher educators: Tim and D√©irdre who implemented LAMPE pedagogies and Mary who… [Direct]

Haynor, Matthew Ives (2018). Applying a Constructivist Approach to the Assessment of Compositions in a Secondary Technology-Based Music Classroom. ProQuest LLC, D.M.A. Dissertation, Boston University. The purpose of this case study was to explore the perspectives and reflections of students and an educator who engaged in the assessment techniques of versioning and critique in a high school classroom employing Technology-Based Music Instruction (TBMI). The use of versioning (whereby students saved projects daily with a different file name), and critique was supported by and chosen based on a constructivist perspective of learning and assessment (Fosnot, 2005; Jonassen, 1992; Scott, 2012). I sought to document what students expressed about their experiences with versioning and critique in a TBMI classroom in relation to their learning process. I also explored the ways students constructed meaning and understanding through the process of reflection and discourse while using versioning and critique in a TBMI setting, as well as the ways their experiences with versioning and critique influenced their views of growth and self-expression. I presented one educator's impressions regarding… [Direct]

Atuahene, Francis (2013). The Impact of "Tuition-Paying" Policy on Retention and Graduation Rates at the University of Ghana. Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, v14 n1 p37-65 2012-2013. African universities over the past decade have developed new modes of financial mobilization in search for fiscal solutions to the declining public support for higher education. The creation of the "tuition-paying" ("dual track" or "fee-paying") admission track policy, a variant of cost sharing, is one of such strategic initiatives that has gained popularity in public universities in Ghana and other East African countries. Using official institutional data, this descriptive study examines and compares retention and graduation rates of students enrolled in the University of Ghana as "tuition-paying" and regular admits. The author discusses the factors accounting for students' attrition and persistence in the University of Ghana. The article concludes that, although the "fee-paying" scheme has had some potential successes in revenue generation and enrollment expansion, there exists graduation gap/disparity between tuition-paying and… [Direct]

Fletcher, Tim (2016). Developing Principles of Physical Education Teacher Education Practice through Self-Study. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, v21 n4 p347-365. Background: The articulation of specific principles of teacher education practice allows teacher educators to make explicit the beliefs, values, and actions that shape their practice. Engaging in processes to articulate the principles that guide practice is beneficial not only for teacher educators and their colleagues but also for students. There are, however, few examples of principles that guide physical education teacher educators' practices. Self-study of teacher education practice (S-STEP) methodology offers one way of examining and articulating principles of practice. In this study, I make connections across several S-STEP research projects I have conducted individually and with colleagues, and share the principles that guide my practice with the physical education teacher education (PETE) community. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to articulate my principles of practice using S-STEP. Specifically, I ask: (a) How can the articulation of my principles of practice reflect… [Direct]

Alexandra Patterson; Alyssa Eddings; Joyel Weems; Laura Sosinsky; Megan Richardson; Philippa Campbell; Zaira Velez (2021). Development of an Effective Interaction-Focused Coaching Model for Community-Based Childcare Programs Participating in an Urban Universal Prekindergarten Program. Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Background/Context: Although professional development using coaching has been widely adopted as a way of improving early care and education practice, only recently have researchers begun to look at the content and features of coaching that lead to desired outcomes. This study examines one of the first projects to explore coaching components among urban community-based childcare programs participating in a city-wide universal prekindergarten program. The project aimed to use coaching to help teachers use a specific set of high-quality practices, known as the Magic 8, shown in other research to improve child outcomes. Purpose/Objective/Research Question: A primary goal of the evaluation was to obtain preliminary evidence of the potential of an early-stage, field-initiated intervention, Interaction-Focused Coaching (IFC), to determine the extent to which additional research or scale-up efforts might be warranted. Outcome questions. To what extent: (1) did teachers increase their use of… [Direct]

Adolph, Karen E.; Karasik, Lana B.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S. (2011). Transition from Crawling to Walking and Infants' Actions with Objects and People. Child Development, v82 n4 p1199-1209 Jul-Aug. Associations between infants' transition to walking and object activities were examined. Fifty infants were observed longitudinally during home observations. At 11 months, all infants were crawlers; at 13 months, half became walkers. Over age, infants increased their total time with objects and frequency of sharing objects with mothers. Bidirectional influences between locomotion and object actions were found. Walking was associated with new forms of object behaviors: Walkers accessed distant objects, carried objects, and approached mothers to share objects; crawlers preferred objects close at hand and shared objects while remaining stationary. Earlier object activities predicted walking status: Crawlers who accessed distant objects, carried objects, and shared objects over distances at 11 months were more likely to walk by 13 months…. [Direct]

Bruce, Christine; Harlan, Mary Ann; Lupton, Mandy (2014). Creating and Sharing: Teens' Information Practices in Digital Communities. Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, v19 n1 Mar. Introduction: In a connected world youth are participating in digital content creating communities. This paper introduces a description of teens' information practices in digital content creating and sharing communities. Method: The research design was a constructivist grounded theory methodology. Seventeen interviews with eleven teens were collected and observation of their digital communities occurred over a two-year period. Analysis: The data were analysed iteratively to describe teens' interactions with information through open and then focused coding. Emergent categories were shared with participants to confirm conceptual categories. Focused coding provided connections between conceptual categories resulting in the theory, which was also shared with participants for feedback. Results: The paper posits a substantive theory of teens' information practices as they create and share content. It highlights that teens engage in the information actions of accessing,… [PDF]

Nickel, Robbie (2011). Solo Librarians Working Collaboratively. Knowledge Quest, v40 n2 p40-43 Nov-Dec. The Elko County School District in Nevada has elementary school librarians that are "solo" librarians. Over the last several years they have worked to collaborate on meeting monthly–even though the district covers 17,100 square miles–and on providing professional development face to face and online. Sharing and collaboration help them to problem solve, meet student needs, and extend their resources. The school district librarians currently try to meet once a month during the school year using the Elko County School District's interactive video equipment. With sixteen school librarians in the district, their highest attendance at the monthly meetings this past year was nine. This year the librarians hope to use Elluminate Live!, a web-conferencing program, for some of their meetings. This software may enable more librarians to participate than in the past. The author concludes that collaboration and sharing are key to their library programs and to making them as solo… [Direct]

Aouad, Julie; Daki, Julia; Deault, Louise; Savage, Robert S. (2011). Orthographic Analogies and Early Reading: Evidence from a Multiple Clue Word Paradigm. Journal of Educational Psychology, v103 n1 p190-205 Feb. Two experiments using a variation of the clue word analogy task (Goswami, 1986) explored whether children can make orthographic analogies when given multiple clue words, beyond the known effects of purely phonological activation. In Experiment 1, 42 children (mean age 6 years and 8 months) were first taught 3 "clue" words (e.g., "fail", "mail", "jail") and then shown target words sharing orthographic and phonological rimes (e.g., "hail"), phonological rimes (e.g., "veil"), orthographic and phonological vowel digraphs (e.g., "wait"), phonological vowel digraphs (e.g., "vein"), or unrelated controls (e.g., "bard"). All word types were advantaged at posttest over unrelated controls. A small additional advantage for orthographic and phonological rimes over phonological rimes was evident in by-participant analysis. Finally, regression analysis showed a specific relationship between onset-rime… [Direct]

Dana Huff (2017). Telling the Story of America: Digital Storytelling Projects in American Literature. English Journal, v106 n3 p32-37. According to the author, as our abilities to combine image and text become more sophisticated and ubiquitous, digital storytelling is a powerful means for sharing those stories. Digital storytelling is a perfect way to remix stories. To present American literature as relevant to students' lives, the author rewrote their curriculum using backwards design and created essential questions centered around three main themes: defining what an American is; exploring the concept of the American Dream and its accessibly (or lack thereof) to all; and considering how American literature reflects Americans and differs from the literature of other countries. Many of the author's students are international students studying abroad and living on campus. The students often have little experience with American culture, history, or literature before they arrive at the school. Though immigrants come to America from all over the world, early American literature often does not reflect the diversity in our… [Direct]

Butler, Stuart M.; Freeland, Julia; Horn, Michael B. (2015). Schools as Community Hubs: Integrating Support Services to Drive Educational Outcomes. A Series of Discussion Papers on Building Healthy Neighborhoods. No. 3. Brookings Institution Effective approaches to the problems of struggling neighborhoods–from health to school success and poverty–require the focused use of integrated strategies. Consistent with this, community schools and many charter schools now function as hubs, helping to deliver a range of services beyond education in order to prepare their students to learn and to assist families. These include social services, "two-generation" support, and population health services. There is debate over the potential of schools as hubs and the impact on school achievement. For success, we need to explore how schools can best "integrate backwards." That requires us consider how schools can function in an interdependent manner with providers of, say, mental health care or social services yet maintain the control needed to customize services to a student's needs and achieve academic objectives. Despite their considerable potential, schools face many challenges in operating as hubs: (1) sharing… [PDF]

Grivokostopoulou, Foteini; Hatzilygeroudis, Ioannis; Kovas, Konstantinos; Perikos, Isidoros (2015). Assisting Tutors to Utilize Web 2.0 Tools in Education. International Association for Development of the Information Society, Paper presented at the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on e-Learning (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, Jul 21-24, 2015). Over the last decade, web has changed the way that educational procedures are delivered to students and has brought innovative learning technologies and possibilities that were not available before. The Web has evolved to a worldwide platform for collaboration, sharing and innovation, constituting what is called Web 2.0. Social media are an emerging part of Web 2.0 and have great potential to be used in education. The efficient integration of social media and Web 2.0 tools in educational systems and courses' curriculum mainly depends on tutors' abilities and experiences. However, in many cases, tutors are not familiar with social media and with many useful Web 2.0 tools and so fail in utilizing them into their courses. In this paper, we present an educational system that aims to assist teachers to develop e-Learning 2.0 knowledge and skills and thus turn them from just in-class trainers to skilled e-tutors. We present the educational courses and the learning approaches followed to… [PDF]

Murphey, Tim (2014). Singing Well-Becoming: Student Musical Therapy Case Studies. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, v4 n2 p205-235. Much research supports the everyday therapeutic and deeper social-neurophysiological influence of singing songs alone and in groups (Austin, 2008; Cozolino, 2013; Sacks, 2007). This study looks at what happens when Japanese students teach short English affirmation songlet-routines to others out of the classroom (clandestine folk music therapy). I investigate 155 student-conducted musical case studies from 7 semester-long classes (18 to 29 students per class) over a 4-year period. The assignments, their in-class training, and their results are introduced, with examples directly from their case studies. Each class published their own booklet of case studies (a class publication, available to readers online for research replication and modeling). Results show that most primary participants enjoyed spreading these positive songlets as they became "well-becoming agents of change" in their own social networks. "Well-becoming" emphasizes an agentive action or activity… [PDF]

An, Heejung; Seplocha, Holly (2010). Video-Sharing Websites: Tools for Developing Pattern Languages in Children. Young Children, v65 n5 p20-25 Sep. Children and their families and teachers use video-sharing websites for new types of learning and information sharing. With the expansion of the World Wide Web, the ability to freely exchange pattern-based information has grown exponentially. As noted by Alexander, \pattern language development\ is a process in which communities freely share information, with the intention of developing best practices. Millions of people throughout the world can visually demonstrate new and traditional knowledge through online videos. This technology adds value, because video-based searching provides new ways of interpreting and relaying information that were not possible with just text. Streaming videos allow a learner to see complex processes over and over again in a manner not easily conveyed with pencil and paper, through verbal conversation, or even by face-to-face demonstration. This article explores the pedagogical implications of this relatively new digital phenomenon in the context of… [Direct]

Muniz, Andrew Everardo (2013). The Retention of Tacit Knowledge in Higher Learning Administration. ProQuest LLC, D.B.A. Dissertation, Baker College (Michigan). Higher education institutions (HEIs) could be among organizations without effective programs for preserving tacit knowledge (TK) when knowledge workers retire, quit, take a leave of absence, or are terminated. The theoretical underpinnings of this study were neuroscience related to brain learning physiology, transformational leadership theory, succession planning theory, and knowledge management theory. Research questions addressed (a) what is the level of awareness of the role of tacit knowledge in the administration of higher education, (b) what methods exist for capturing, sharing, and creating tacit knowledge that can be effectively integrated in succession planning, and (c) what unique elements exist in the administration of higher-education that either support or prevent tacit knowledge preservation, sharing, and creation through succession planning initiatives. Data collection involved interviews and document review at a Midwestern college. Findings included the need for trust… [Direct]

Heap, Tania; Minocha, Shailey (2012). An Empirically Grounded Framework to Guide Blogging for Digital Scholarship. Research in Learning Technology, v20 suppl p176-188. This research project investigated how openness and sharing of knowledge are manifested through scholarly blogging. We aimed to identify the academics' and researchers' motivations for starting a blog; the contribution of blogging to their personal and professional development; and any challenges. Twenty-six participants were recruited. A pre-interview questionnaire was first emailed to the participants to collect background information. An initial unstructured interview was conducted by email, followed by a synchronous semi-structured interview. Textual and visual extracts of blog content were also collected. The datasets were analysed using different techniques. The findings revealed varied reasons for blogging. Some academics/researchers began a blog for its accessibility to self and others. Blogging aided the academics' and researchers' personal and professional development in several ways. Bloggers can quickly reach a wider audience compared to other forms of academic… [Direct]