Promoting Teachers’ Learning and Knowledge Building in a Socio-Technical System

dc.creator	Kairit Tammets
dc.creator	Kai Pata
dc.creator	Mart Laanpere
dc.date	2013-07-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:48:18Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:48:18Z
dc.identifier	1492-3831
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/a5465b4e86a54c03961cd6049c1223e0
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/23679
dc.description	The study proposes a way in which the learning and knowledge building (LKB) framework, which is consistent with the knowledge conversion phases proposed by Nonaka and Takeuchi, supports teachers’ informal and self-directed workplace learning. An LKB framework in a socio-technical system was developed to support professional development in an extended professional community. The LKB framework was implemented and formatively evaluated in the in-service course that prepares teachers for accreditation in an e-portfolio community. The extended community consisted of 16 participants, in-service teachers and domain experts. The evaluation considered (a) how the LKB practices of the framework became actualized among the community members and (b) what supported these LKB practices. Data were collected from log-files of the portfolio system. Correlation analysis and Bayesian dependency modelling revealed the way in which the bottom-up peer scaffolding from community members influences teachers’ LKB practices. As a result, the study proposes that a socio-technical system might promote LKB in a professional community.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Athabasca University Press
dc.relation	http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1478/2532
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 14, Iss 3 (2013)
dc.subject	Socio-technical system
dc.subject	portfolio
dc.subject	teacher development
dc.subject	learning and knowledge building
dc.subject	scaffolding
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Promoting Teachers’ Learning and Knowledge Building in a Socio-Technical System
dc.type	article