Implementing Communities of Practice in Higher Education

Part 1 Profiles of Higher Education Communities of Practice: Case Studies.- 1 Sustaining the Momentum: A cross-institutional community of practice for research supervisors.- 2 The roleo f higher education in facilitating communities of practice to support health professionals practice.- 3 Building a network and finding a community of practice for undergraduate mathematics lecturers.- 4 Communities practising generous scholarship: Cultures of collegiality in academic writing retreats.- 5 Using Technology to Build Engagement in a Global Scholarship of Teaching and Learning(SoTL) Community of Practice.- 6 Researcher preparation for indigenous fundamental research through collaborative participation.- 7 Imagining the world: Creating an artistic community of practice in an academic environment.- Part II Communities of Practice - Curriculum Development.- 8 Enabling stories: Narrative, leadership, and identity in a faculty-based teaching community of practice.- 9 Choosing change: Using a community of practice model to support curriculum reform and improve teaching quality in the first year.- 10 Communities of Practice: A practical approach to enhance student learning at a South African university.- 11 A facilitated Community of Practice: Enabling student success in the blended learning environment.- 12 A Community of Practice for Blended Science and Engineering Learning and Teaching at UniSA.- 13 Sustainability Focused CoP: Enabling transformative education.- Part III Student focused Communities of Practice.- 14 A doctoral Community of Practice: A spatial entity across social media.- 15 A Student-Staff Community of Practice within an Inter-University Final-Year Project.- 16 Learning Value and Identity Formation: Social Learning and the Graduate Studies Experience.- 17 Equity Buddies: Building communities of practice to support the transition and retention of students through their first year at university.- 18 The practice of being a student: CoPs and graduate student success.- 19 The Lifecycle of a Student-led Community of Practice in Higher Education.- Part IV Virtual Communities of Practice in Higher Education.- 20 Meitheal: An Irish Case Study in Building a Virtual Community of Practice in Transitional Times.- 21 Facilitating a Community of Practice (CoP) in the Arts: Connecting online university learning to 'real-world' experience.- 22 The Australian Chemistry Discipline Network - A supportive community of practice in a hard science.- 23 Bringing focus through community: Social learning in online teaching, learning and research.- 24 Practicing the Practice: The Heutagogy Community of Practice.- 25 The connected community of practice in educational technology: A model for future networked professional development?.- 26 International collaborative writing groups as communities of practice.- 27 Principles of Modeling COPs for pedagogical change: Lessons learns from practice 2006 to 2014.