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Los Angeles Clinical PhD: A Scholar-Practitioner Program The clinical PhD training program on Alliant's Los Angeles campus is based on a scholar-practitioner model where practice and scholarship receive equal emphasis. The program is based on the principle that clinical psychologists have a responsibility to work to ameliorate psychological suffering and facilitate psychological well-being through both basic and applied research and interventions that evolve from scholarly work relevant to societal needs. An underlying philosophical assumption of the program is that there is a need for innovative scholarship that provides a foundation for the development of interventions to meet the needs of diverse and underserved populations.

A book for writing proposals recommended by a friend of mine who has finished his PhD.

Video recording from a conference lecture in 2010 I think, with Jean Lave speaking about learning as a social practice. Much as I recall her Copenhagen seminars back in 2000 The first minutes of audio are quite bad, but I think it gets better. "Jean Lave, PhD en antropología social de la Universidad de Harvard y teórica ampliamente reconocida en el campo del aprendizaje social, dictó el 21 de abril la conferencia Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice, realizada por el Departamento de Psicología de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de los Andes."

"I am feeling really happy.I finally got my PhD on Saturday 15 May, 2010. It was truly a SUCCESS!" Hala is a woman from Sudan, another webhead whose active work I admire, and she just reported on Facebook. I think that her learning trajectory would be of interest as an example to many of us in this group

"Write every day" is fabulous advice. But, how do you actually do it? That was my question for a long time before I finally convinced myself to give it a try.

Potentially interesting new CoP on integrating ICT in Education.

SpringerLink - Journal Article. Costs $34.00

paid article

Hey Barb, It's on the way!!

For those PhD students who are trying to figure out how best to study - to understand and to remember - the research sets aside some common conceptions and offers some new ones. My favorite - which I am trying tonight - is to study the same material in different rooms. Hmmmm Where to study? bedroom?? (dangerous! I will sleep!)

Blended learning is a hybrid of classroom and online learning that includes some of the conveniences of online courses without the complete loss of face-to-face contact. The present study used a causal-comparative design to examine the relationship of sense of community between traditional classroom, blended, and fully online higher education learning environments. Evidence is provided to suggest that blended courses produce a stronger sense of community among students than either traditional or fully online courses.

Hey Ila!  There's a Diigo group from Kansas State University focused on Digital Ethnography.  Just thought you might find something helpful in their bookmarks.

WOW, Thanks Barb I will check them out and maybe they will let me join.

Another network/community to support doctoral students.

Great video about the future of education.

From summary of thesis: The issues discussed in the current thesis grow out of many years of practical work in various development projects within the field of labour market politics. The explicit aim of many of these projects is to change or adjust current work practices. However, I have often encountered a mismatch between the well-documented experiences of success within a project on one hand, and the fact that project experiences are only rarely and to a limited extent successfully transferred to and applicable outside the project. This schism formed the initial backdrop for the work presented in this thesis. The aim has been firstly to develop a better understanding for the learning processes made possible through development projects, secondly to clarify why problems occur when this new learning is to be implemented in and brought back to those labour market organisations (job centres, unemployment funds, educational institutions, local authorities etc.) that the development project targeted. In the thesis, implementation is therefore primarily discussed in terms of these labour market institutions, that is, they form the primary horizon for the experiences and the learning resulting from the project. The thesis contains an empirical and theoretical analysis of the process establishing a specific development project, the learning of the participants through the project, and the implementation of their experiences both in the day-to-day work and within the organisation at large. Yrjö Engeström is, therefore, introduced since his concept of expansive learning precisely captures the combination of novel practice and different forms of learning. With their notion of community of practice Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger provide, furthermore, an analytical concept of immediate relevance for project work. I have been much inspired by their approach while collecting empirical material documenting the later part of the project. I have, however, come to realise that t

The Doctoral Colloquium is a forum in which Ph.D. students meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced CSCW researchers and practitioners.

Now this looks very interesting and I have always wanted to go to Seattle!