Online Learning Trajectory for Knowledge-Building Communities to Reframe Inservice Teachers' TPACK

2016 ◽  
pp. 21-52
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Inservice Teachers ◽  
Learning Trajectory ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Content Development ◽  
Instructional Processes ◽  
Knowledge Building Communities

Knowledge-building communities facilitate learning through collaborative explorations and investigations using today's technologies as learning tools. Such communities support teachers in developing their Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (or TPACK) so they are able to rearrange educational experiences using a systems pedagogical approach for engaging students in communication, collaboration and inquiry-oriented technologies. A current educational setting for reframing inservice teachers' knowledge involves online instruction. A researcher conjectured, empirically supported online TPACK learning trajectory provides guidelines for teacher educators as they design new online coursework for guiding teachers in enhancing their TPACK. Using a design-based research methodology, a social metacognitive constructivist instructional lens frames this online learning trajectory for organizing the course content development by interweaving descriptive tasks with specific pedagogical strategies towards reframing inservice teachers' knowledge through knowledge-building communities. The resulting trajectory describes a dynamic interaction of key tools and instructional processes for scaffolding the content towards an enhanced TPACK understanding.

Online Learning Trajectory for Knowledge-Building Communities to Reframe Inservice Teachers' TPACK

2018 ◽  
pp. 839-862 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret L. Niess
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Inservice Teachers ◽  
Learning Trajectory ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Content Development ◽  
Instructional Processes ◽  
Knowledge Building Communities

Knowledge-building communities facilitate learning through collaborative explorations and investigations using today's technologies as learning tools. Such communities support teachers in developing their Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (or TPACK) so they are able to rearrange educational experiences using a systems pedagogical approach for engaging students in communication, collaboration and inquiry-oriented technologies. A current educational setting for reframing inservice teachers' knowledge involves online instruction. A researcher conjectured, empirically supported online TPACK learning trajectory provides guidelines for teacher educators as they design new online coursework for guiding teachers in enhancing their TPACK. Using a design-based research methodology, a social metacognitive constructivist instructional lens frames this online learning trajectory for organizing the course content development by interweaving descriptive tasks with specific pedagogical strategies towards reframing inservice teachers' knowledge through knowledge-building communities. The resulting trajectory describes a dynamic interaction of key tools and instructional processes for scaffolding the content towards an enhanced TPACK understanding.

Tools and Processes for Online Knowledge-Building Communities

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-80
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Inservice Teachers ◽  
Learning Trajectory ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Instructional Processes ◽  
Knowledge Building Communities ◽  
Critical Reflections

Knowledge-building communities exploit the combination of inquiry experiences, discourse, and critical reflections. They facilitate learning through collaborative explorations and investigations where the explorations might involve using new and more robust digital technologies as learning tools. Such communities have the potential for supporting teachers in transforming their technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) as they explore new technology-infused experiences. The challenge for this researcher team was to identify and implement a plan for establishing knowledge-building communities that effectively transformed inservice teachers' TPACK through online instruction. Using a design-based research methodology, a social metacognitive constructivist instructional lens was used to frame the online learning trajectory for organizing the course content and experiences by interweaving descriptive inquiry tasks with specific pedagogical strategies. These strategies included discourse and critical reflections for encouraging a transformation in teachers' knowledge through experiences in knowledge-building communities. The resulting trajectory provided a dynamic interaction of key tools and instructional processes for scaffolding the content for transforming TPACK understanding. The resulting researcher-conjectured, empirically supported online TPACK learning trajectory provided guidelines for teacher educators in the design of new online coursework for guiding teachers towards understanding the pedagogical challenges involved in orchestrating and managing knowledge-building communities as they integrate multiple technologies in their classroom instruction.

Innovative Instructional Strategies for an Online Community of Learners

2018 ◽  
pp. 542-569
Author(s):  
Margaret L. Niess ◽  
Henry Gillow-Wiles
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Instructional Strategies ◽  
Instructional Practices ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Learning Trajectory ◽  
Community Of Learners ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Content Development ◽  
Teacher Professional

This qualitative, design-based research identifies innovative instructional practices for teacher professional development that support an online community of learners in reconstructing their technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) for teaching mathematics. This analysis describes instructional practices that guide inservice teacher participants in inquiring and reflecting to confront their knowledge-of-practice conceptions for integrating multiple technologies as learning tools. The research program describes an online learning trajectory and instructional strategies supporting the tools and processes in steering the content development in a social metacognitive constructivist instructional framework towards moving from “informal ideas, through successive refinements of representation, articulation, and reflection towards increasingly complex concepts over time” (Confrey & Maloney, 2012). The results provide recommendations for online professional development learning environments that engage the participants as a community of learners.

Innovative Instructional Strategies for an Online Community of Learners

2017 ◽  
pp. 499-526
Author(s):  
Margaret L. Niess ◽  
Henry Gillow-Wiles
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Instructional Strategies ◽  
Instructional Practices ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Learning Trajectory ◽  
Community Of Learners ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Content Development ◽  
Teacher Professional

This qualitative, design-based research identifies innovative instructional practices for teacher professional development that support an online community of learners in reconstructing their technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) for teaching mathematics. This analysis describes instructional practices that guide inservice teacher participants in inquiring and reflecting to confront their knowledge-of-practice conceptions for integrating multiple technologies as learning tools. The research program describes an online learning trajectory and instructional strategies supporting the tools and processes in steering the content development in a social metacognitive constructivist instructional framework towards moving from “informal ideas, through successive refinements of representation, articulation, and reflection towards increasingly complex concepts over time” (Confrey & Maloney, 2012). The results provide recommendations for online professional development learning environments that engage the participants as a community of learners.

Online TPACK Learning Trajectory Tools and Processes

2016 ◽  
pp. 53-77
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Trajectory ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Graduate Coursework ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Constructing Knowledge

A multiple case, descriptive study provides research insights for illuminating the tools and processes in the online TPACK learning trajectory situated in a social metacognitive constructivist instructional framework for graduate coursework. In this course, inservice K-12 teachers' relearn, rethink, and redefine teaching and learning for developing a 21st century literacy significantly influenced by the proliferation and societal acceptance of multiple digital technologies. The research examination identifies insights about the incorporation of the key tools (community of learners and reflection) and processes (shared/individual knowledge development and inquiry) in the online learning trajectory for reframing teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK). Three themes reveal how the online learning trajectory relies on these tools and processes for enhancing the participants' learning: the tools and processes are needed for constructing knowledge, for transitioning the participant's thinking as a student to that of a teacher, and for recognizing the value of pedagogical strategies for teaching and learning with technologies.

Applying the TPACK Learning Trajectory in Blending Practical Teaching Experiences with Online Community of Learner's Explorations

2016 ◽  
pp. 102-131
Keyword(s):  
Online Community ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Inservice Teachers ◽  
Learning Trajectory ◽  
Classroom Observations ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Practical Experiences

Inservice teacher preparation balances theory with practical experiences to support teachers in integrate their theoretical knowledge into their teaching practice. Online instruction holds potential for this education but questions how classroom observations are conducted in the teachers' classroom practices, particularly where the teachers are geographically dispersed. This multiple case descriptive study examines an online analogue to traditional classroom observations, where the Scoop Notebook (Borko, Stecher, & Kuffner, 2005) reveals inservice teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), more specifically their TPACK-of-practice (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 1999). The Scoop Electronic Portfolio development process describes teachers' engagement in classroom practices, transitioning their scholarly theoretical knowledge to practical knowledge through in-depth, rich reflections from classroom actions and artifacts. This course blends the practical experiences of the Scoop process with asynchronous community of learners' explorations of instructional strategies. The results describe teachers engaged in action research using Scoop artifacts as objects to think with for transforming their TPACK for integrating technologies in teaching their content, ultimately transforming their TPACK-of-practice.

A Framework for the Redesign Principles That Improved Engagement in an Online Graduate Class

2019 ◽  
pp. 49-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Lemanski ◽  
Megan McDonald Van Deventer
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Reading Methods ◽  
Engagement Theory ◽  
Course Changes

At a large, Midwest university, the authors taught an online course to graduate students in an educational reading methods course. While the course covered compelling content, the user experience frustrated students as they struggled to navigate an outmoded online learning management system (LMS), which inhibited their ability to engage with course content. Recognizing that the course could be a powerful and relevant learning experience for students, the chapter authors drew on engagement theory, technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK), and the triple E framework to redesign the course. While maintaining the valuable course content, the chapter authors developed a framework to create an engaging and positive online learning experience. This chapter describes the framework and details how the course was redesigned, articulates the rationale for the course changes, and explores the positive impact it had on teaching and learning.

Applying the TPACK Learning Trajectory in Blending Practical Teaching Experiences With Online Community of Learner's Explorations

2018 ◽  
pp. 1346-1366
Author(s):  
Margaret L. Niess
Keyword(s):  
Online Community ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Inservice Teachers ◽  
Learning Trajectory ◽  
Classroom Observations ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Practical Experiences

Inservice teacher preparation balances theory with practical experiences to support teachers in integrate their theoretical knowledge into their teaching practice. Online instruction holds potential for this education but questions how classroom observations are conducted in the teachers' classroom practices, particularly where the teachers are geographically dispersed. This multiple case descriptive study examines an online analogue to traditional classroom observations, where the Scoop Notebook (Borko, Stecher, & Kuffner, 2005) reveals inservice teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), more specifically their TPACK-of-practice (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 1999). The Scoop Electronic Portfolio development process describes teachers' engagement in classroom practices, transitioning their scholarly theoretical knowledge to practical knowledge through in-depth, rich reflections from classroom actions and artifacts. This course blends the practical experiences of the Scoop process with asynchronous community of learners' explorations of instructional strategies. The results describe teachers engaged in action research using Scoop artifacts as objects to think with for transforming their TPACK for integrating technologies in teaching their content, ultimately transforming their TPACK-of-practice.

Online TPACK Learning Trajectory Tools and Processes

2018 ◽  
pp. 987-1004
Author(s):  
Margaret L. Niess
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Trajectory ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Graduate Coursework ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Constructing Knowledge

A multiple case, descriptive study provides research insights for illuminating the tools and processes in the online TPACK learning trajectory situated in a social metacognitive constructivist instructional framework for graduate coursework. In this course, inservice K-12 teachers' relearn, rethink, and redefine teaching and learning for developing a 21st century literacy significantly influenced by the proliferation and societal acceptance of multiple digital technologies. The research examination identifies insights about the incorporation of the key tools (community of learners and reflection) and processes (shared/individual knowledge development and inquiry) in the online learning trajectory for reframing teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK). Three themes reveal how the online learning trajectory relies on these tools and processes for enhancing the participants' learning: the tools and processes are needed for constructing knowledge, for transitioning the participant's thinking as a student to that of a teacher, and for recognizing the value of pedagogical strategies for teaching and learning with technologies.

Problem-Based Online Learning Instructional Design

2019 ◽  
pp. 81-107
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Instructional Design ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Learning Trajectory ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Constructing Knowledge

Compiling the information from the research efforts for establishing knowledge-building communities through the application of the online TPACK learning trajectory, the research effort proceeded to implement and examine instructional design for scaffolding problem-based online learning experiences for transforming teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK). This chapter focused on active learning methods including collaboration, cooperative learning, and problem-based inquiry learning that emphasized guided active participation for engaging both participants and instructors. A multiple case, descriptive study provided the research insights to illuminate the incorporation of the tools and processes in the online TPACK learning trajectory situated in a social metacognitive constructivist instructional framework for graduate coursework. In one course in the program, inservice K-12 teachers were directed toward rethinking and redefining teaching and learning, in a 21st century literacy for taking advantage of multiple digital technologies. The research identified insights about the incorporation of the key tools (community of learners and reflection) and processes (shared/individual knowledge development and inquiry) in the online learning trajectory for reframing teachers' TPACK through guided active participation. Three themes revealed how the online learning trajectory incorporated these tools and processes to enhance the participants' learning: the tools and processes are needed for constructing knowledge, for transitioning the participant's thinking as a student to that of a teacher, and for recognizing the importance of guided active participation for problem-based learning with technologies.

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