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In dieser überarbeiteten Dissertation beschäftigt sich Roland BADER ausführlich mit dem Handlungsfeld der außerschulischen Medienpädagogik und interaktionistischen Konzepten des Lernens. Lern- und sozialpsychologische Konzepte wie beispielsweise die "Activity Theory" werden dargestellt. BADER widmet sich im Weiteren den Lernenden Gemeinschaften. Im Anschluss an die theoretischen Erörterungen wird anhand der sorgsam beschriebenen Fallstudie in der pädagogischen Weiterbildung deutlich, wie die Aneignung von Netzkompetenz bei PädagogInnen trainiert werden kann. Hierbei sind für BADER Gestaltung und Grenzen von Learning Communities wesentlich. Als ein Ergebnis ist die Kohärenz der Kommunikation in Gruppen in Bezug auf den Erfahrungsaustausch, auch außerhalb der Aufgabenstellung, zu sehen.

To build learningcommunities, teachers must become colearners. Everyone must be a teacher; all must be learners. One mechanism for developinga learningcommunity is for us to be more purposefully reflective about what we do and to use learningjournals for ourselves, not just for students. This article describes the learningderived from the author's writingand sharingjournal entries in a graduate course on learningorganiza tions. Excerpts from student feedback on the author's journals further illustrate the benefits of keepinga journal.

Now, as throughout human history, the world is undergoing transformation, and business organizations are caught in the turbulence of a change they are not able to control. The fundamental assumptions of our Western orthodox worldview, on which our business institutions were founded, has proved inadequate to regulate either our society or our business institutions. New business structures—communities—are emerging based on a transpersonal worldview, one that embraces spirituality, psychology, and science in an integrated perspective on human experience. Transpersonal learning communities combine an emphasis on the development of human consciousness and business performance by adopting triple-loop learning practices. While they do business, transpersonal learning communities will simultaneously transform themselves and society as a competitive advantage.

Analyzes effectiveness of small study groups affiliated with large lecture courses, designed to promote learning among college students; data from political science courses at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, 1994.

This article examines the use of Internet-and World Wide Web-based learning systems in the context of business education. I propose the concept of "online learning communities" as an organizing frame for developing online learning systems. I describe some examples of online learning communities in business and academic institutions. I discuss the learning skills needed for and implementation issues in creating online learning communities.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the role of employee resource groups (ERGs) in a multi-national, for-profit corporation. The paper focuses on how ERGs facilitate learning.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative case study approach was used to examine six social identity based ERGs in one multi-national for-profit organization headquartered in the USA.FindingsThe study found that ERGs facilitate learning and development activities in order to support their membership. ERGs, operating as communities of practice, also engaged in informal learning opportunities that were designed to shift perspectives of non-members and executive-level leaders in the organization.Originality/valueThere is a growing body of literature on ERGs across organizations and higher education that examine how these groups engage in activism, advocacy, recruitment, retention and education. This study examines the processes by which these groups facilitate learning and development activities and the benefits perceived by the membership. The paper provides value to human resources professionals and others who are interested in how ERGs function as learning communities and outcomes the membership perceive as most important.

Educational practices are constituted through the junction of cultural artifacts, beliefs, values, and normative routines known as activity systems. Classroom activity is a particularly important nexus for understanding cultural processes in that thinking and doing are linked in social practice. An activity-based, problem-oriented approach to understand development in school contexts focuses analysis on the cultural practices of learning environments. Studying classrooms and other learning contexts as cultural activity reveals how different microcultures for teaching and learning emerge, and it links forms of participation to the kinds of cognitive forms individuals construct to accomplish cognitive and social functions. Ongoing studies of the literacy practices of formal and nonformal learning environments serve as the context for examining culture in educational activity.

Purpose
Although the number of higher education institutions adopting sustainability-focused faculty learning communities (FLCs) has grown, very few of these programs have published evaluation research. This paper aims to report findings from an evaluation of the University of Vermont's (UVM's) sustainability faculty fellows (SFF) program. It discusses how utilization-focused program evaluation is an important tool for developing and improving sustainability-focused FLCs. The SFF program aims to enhance sustainability education by bringing faculty members together to expand their knowledge of sustainability concepts and offer pedagogical support for integrating those concepts in higher education curricula.


Design/methodology/approach
A utilization-focused evaluation framework guided the evaluation's design and implementation. Multiple methods were used to collect evaluation data, including in-person interviews and an online survey with SFF program participants.


Findings
The evaluation's findings suggest that UVM's SFF program expanded faculty understanding of sustainability concepts, encouraged curricular and instructional reform and made progress toward developing a community of faculty interested in sustainability education. The evaluation's utilization focus was instrumental in providing useful information for improving the SFF program.


Originality/value
Evaluation findings expand what we know about the potential effectiveness of sustainability-focused FLCs, as well as challenges institutions might encounter when adopting such an approach to faculty development. Findings also point to ways in which utilization-focused evaluations can inform program development and improvement efforts.

This article explores the findings from an action research project which tracked the evolution of The Executive Program (EP) (a pseudonym), a four-week open enrollment senior executive program at a major university in the United States. The decade-long journey grew from a program redesign initiative to a process of ongoing change through insider action research. Through the process the faculty director and collaborating faculty unexpectedly experienced an epistemological shift. The EP was transformed from a traditional 'teacher as expert' model with a focus on cognitive learning to a holistic learning community that emphasized broader participant involvement and a wider range of learning approaches. This article is the product of the authors' collaborative meaning-making through the lens of developmental action inquiry and adult learning theory.

From this push for non‐linear innovation has come a fragmented market of hardware, software, and services branded as, knowledge‐management solutions. Virtual knowledge networks provide a dynamic way of working relevant for the emergence of a post‐industrial economy. E‐learning is seen as a driver of knowledge creation across unstructured virtual communities. The paper considers the role of managed learning environments (MLEs) in the context of information‐intensive organisations operating in virtual markets (software, publishing, education, music, consultancy services plus many more), the relationship with knowledge creation across distributed networks, and finally strategies for building knowledge networks through the creation of e‐learning communities.