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Deconstructing An Online Community Of Practice: Teachers’ Actions In The Edmodo Math Subject Community, Torrey Trust
Deconstructing An Online Community Of Practice: Teachers’ Actions In The Edmodo Math Subject Community, Torrey Trust
Torrey Trust
New technologies seem to have expanded traditional face-to-face communities of practice across spatial and temporal boundaries into “online communities of practice.” However, these virtual landscapes are significantly different from the context of face-to-face communities of practice that Lave and Wenger (1991) observed. This study examined whether teachers’ actions in the Edmodo math subject community, a so-called online community of practice with more than 300,000 members, fit within Lave and Wenger's community of practice framework. A directed content analysis of 600 discussion threads from the math subject community was conducted and triangulated with survey and interview data. The results from the …