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Practice As Pedagogy: Learning Through Participation In The Caribexams Online Community Of Practice, Kathy-Ann Daniel-Gittens
Practice As Pedagogy: Learning Through Participation In The Caribexams Online Community Of Practice, Kathy-Ann Daniel-Gittens
Wayne State University Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to develop community redesign strategies to support community members' participation in the CaribExams online Community of Practice and to investigate the impact of these strategies on members' participation levels and trajectories.
CaribExams online community was developed to assist out-of-school learners who were preparing to sit for the Caribbean Examinations Council's regional English exam. The redesign project was developed to address an ongoing problem of low participation by members in the online community. A second purpose of the study was to investigate and empirically validate theoretically grounded design principles based on social practice learning theory …