Creating and maintaining online communities of practice in Malaysian Smart Schools: challenging realities

Thang, Siew Ming; Hall, Carol; Murugaiah, Puvaneswary; Azman, Hazita

doi:10.1080/09650792.2011.547724

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“…The facilitator must be able to bring his/her own knowledge and expertise to the table while also encouraging others to contribute their knowledge and expertise -and valuing both equally (Aubusson et al 2009, Kemmis 2010. Thang et al (2011) emphasize the importance of facilitators taking the time to establish rapport with and cultivate relationships amongst the teachers with whom they work. External facilitators often have to employ extra time and energy in developing relationships with teachers, something Aubusson et al (2009) and Halai (2011) suggest helps to allay any fears or concerns teachers may have about the facilitator coming from a university or some other external entity.…”

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 97%

Facilitating action research: a study of coaches, their experiences, and their reflections on leading teachers in the process of practitioner inquiry

Krell

Dana

2012

Professional Development in Education

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Despite the profound impact of action research coaches on teachers' experiences of the inquiry process, little research exists in the field regarding the coach's role. In this exploratory study, two groups of action research coaches -one novice and one experienced -share their experiences of coaching inquiry during the 2009/10 school year. Out of the focus group interviews conducted with each group of coaches, four challenges arose that spanned across the coaching of both groups, despite the level of experience: time, coaching wondering development, coaching data analysis and administration. Implications and future research directions based on this work are discussed.

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Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 97%

Facilitating action research: a study of coaches, their experiences, and their reflections on leading teachers in the process of practitioner inquiry

Krell

Dana

2012

Professional Development in Education

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“…The former uses content-based filtering while the latter uses both content-based and collaborative filtering approaches for generating recommendations for the user [18,19]. There is a need for maintaining a constant communication among the knowledge professionals and their peers as suggested by Wenger in their study conducted centering the Malaysian Universities [20]. IoT systems based on real-time data are more promising in terms of providing better results.…”

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RecIoT: A Deep Insight into IoT-Based Smart Recommender Systems

Sharma

Rani

Nuagah

2022

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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Typically, Internet of Things (IoT) is perceived as the technology for connecting people, devices, vehicles, home appliances, etc., and 212 billion heterogenous devices are presumed to be connected by 2020 under its umbrella. This domain is gaining popularity worldwide because of the wave it has brought in both research and industrial sector. Smart applications of this scenario provide assistance and services to the users in smart homes, smart cities, smart retail, agriculture, healthcare, etc. However, researchers are now exploring the potential of IoT systems in other domains, one of them being recommender systems. In recent years, the focus of researchers has drifted towards utilizing recommender systems to improve offered selections to IoT users. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to study the present practices, approaches, and challenges in the aforementioned domain along with possible solutions. Briefly, the contributions of this paper are as follows: (1) providing an overview of the prevailing scenario in a range of application domains associated with IoT based recommender systems, (2) providing a framework of some real-world applications, (3) outlining key areas for the improvement towards context-aware personalized services in the future research, and (4) providing a bibliometric trend analysis prevalent in the concerned domain.

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“…The more practice-based approach of CoPs makes learning more immediate to the learner (Aguilar & Krasny, 2011;Bouchamma & Michaud, 2010;Chambers & Armour, 2011;Dooner et al, 2007;Falk & Drayton, 2009;Levine, 2010;Lewis, Koston, Quartley, & Adsit, 2011;Musanti & Lucretia, 2010;Parker, Patton, Madden, & Sinclair, 2010;Thang, Hall, Murugaiah, & Hazita, 2011). Bottom-up initiatives may be more attractive to the ground practitioner than abstract notions of professional identity acquisition, which requires a vantage point from the top.…”

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Professional Identity or Best Practices?—An Exploration of the Synergies between Professional Learning Communities and Communities of Practices

Lee¹,

Shaari²

2012

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This paper attempts to find the synergies between Professional Learning Community (PLC) and Community of Practice (CoP), with the view to enhance teacher professionalism. Based on the review of literatures, we highlight the different motivations of PLCs and CoPs, and the value-assumptions informing the two initiatives. We argue that both initiatives serve critical functions in augmenting teacher autonomy. Although conceptually distinctive, the underpinning values of the approaches to organizing teacher professional communities are complementary. Therefore, a two-prong approach is proposed. One seeds teacher professionalism through emergent best practices. The other consolidates these best practices into a coherent teacher professional identity through the introduction of structural affordances.

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Creating and maintaining online communities of practice in Malaysian Smart Schools: challenging realities

Cited by 26 publications

References 16 publications

Facilitating action research: a study of coaches, their experiences, and their reflections on leading teachers in the process of practitioner inquiry

Facilitating action research: a study of coaches, their experiences, and their reflections on leading teachers in the process of practitioner inquiry

RecIoT: A Deep Insight into IoT-Based Smart Recommender Systems

Professional Identity or Best Practices?—An Exploration of the Synergies between Professional Learning Communities and Communities of Practices

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