Formation of communities of practice to promote openness in education
| Published | March 2011 |
| Journal | eLearning Papers 23 Volume 23, Issue March 2011 |
| Publisher | elearningeuropa.info |
| Editors | Ehlers, Ulf-Daniel and Koskinen |
| Country | Spain |
ABSTRACT
This article presents the educational experiences of an inter-institutional project that consisted in forming a Community of Practice (CoP) among Mexican educational institutions, in 2009. The main goal of this project was to enrich a catalogue of OER for basic and elementary education (K-12) for Spanish speaking countries in Latin America, and the rest of the world, within the field of innovative education and technology, through the work and community of practice of K-12 teachers and university faculty participants. Six Mexican higher education institutions participated in this project, and this article will talk about their faculty experiences with a community of practice that used innovative applications and new technologies. Also, this article describes how OER were used in the K-12 educational level through the portal website of TEMOA, the academic search engine developed by Tecnológico de Monterrey to help teachers with the design and instruction of their courses.
| Keywords | communities of practice · higher education · OER in schools · teachers’ experiences |
| Published at | Barcelona |
| ISSN | 1887-1542 |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Rights | by-nc-nd/3.0 |
| URL | http://www.openeducationeuropa.eu/en/article/Formation-of-Communities-of-Practice-to-Promote-Openness-in-Education |
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