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An easy read about the difference between Positivism and Post-Positivism. Still trying to get my head around all this philosophical stuff.

Hey Barb, I have been on that site many times and it's pretty good. I still have a hard time with those two issues but better now since I have a few classes under my belt. It does take a lot get one's arm around it and I still struggle at times so you are not alone.

Found this gem in Sylvia Currie's "My Practice" discussion. Lots of good stuff in here.

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In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides both a detailed account of her apprenticeship in the art of sustained fieldwork and an insightful overview of thirty years of changes in the empirical and theoretical facets of ethnographic practice. Examining the issues she confronted in her own work, Lave shows how the critical questions raised by ethnographic research erode conventional assumptions, altering the direction of the work that follows. As ethnography takes on increasing significance to an ever widening field of thinkers on topics from education to ecology, this erudite but accessible book will be essential to anyone tackling the question of what it means to undertake critical and conceptually challenging fieldwork. Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice explains how to seriously explore what it means to be human in a complex world-and why it is so important.

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Mark Warschauer is one of the most knowledgeable in the field of developing online education. His advice on what to share in your Statement of Purpose for a Ph.D program resonates with some insight in what NOT to tell :-) " People who are reading a SOP for Ph.D. programs care about two things: (1) Do you have the potential to be an outstanding scholar? And (2) are your research interests a good match for the Ph.D. program and its faculty? Anything beyond these two things is superflous. Your SOP should thus be directed to getting these two things across. "

nVivo book on Google books- part of it can be read online - although tenyears of age could have many interesting aspects on using software for qualitative data analysis

Hey Sus I will look into this and thanks for the tip.

Useful review of online distance learning in UK

Written awhile ago, but some basics from a practical point of view about how to create community online

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."

Another example on how the CoP concept is being used - from Ireland " The Mechanical Engineering Community of Practice (CoP) is one of 12 Communities of Practice founded to support the development of innovation in teaching and learning in the Third and Fourth Level academic community. The CoP was formed in February 2007, through funding and support from the National Digital Learning Repository (NDLR) The NDLR is an initiative to provide a platform to develop and share learning resources for various Communities of Practice. "

This is one of those titles that are owned by Springerlink. What I reaaly like are the tags suggested: I've recycled them here Information Overload - Emergency Management - communities of practice - professional communications - recommender systems Abstract Thirty four professionals who are part of a community of practice in the field of health related emergency response management provided information about the sources of information that they currently use the most, as well as their unmet information needs, and the kinds of information systems tools they would like to have. This professional community relies heavily on the Web, but they report severe information overload, in terms of not easily being able to find the kinds of information they want, amid the deluge of information that is there. In particular, they would find a system that uses social tagging and social recommender system features to be very useful for accessing relevant documents in the "gray literature." We suggest that services such as these will be increasingly important for professional communities in general.

Another network/community to support doctoral students.

Excellent article that provides Effective Strategies for the Stages of Learning/Adoption

List of publications related to education and learning - and PD for teachers

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.