Creating and sustaining a community of practice: driving research impact and visibility

Our March seminar saw our community gather to hear about creating and sustaining communities of practice. Details below.

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Title: Creating and sustaining a community of practice: driving research impact and visibility

When: Thursday, 17 March 2022, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM AEDT

Speaker: Associate Professor Thomas Cochrane

Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom

Abstract: This presentation will discuss ideas based upon experiences of enabling and stewarding communities of practice in various domains of interest focusing upon technology enhanced learning since 2006 (https://thomcochrane.wordpress.com/communities-of-practice/). While CoPs often have limited life-spans the discussion will draw upon experience-based principles for establishing trust, stewarding peer-groups, reifying and brokering the practice and activities of the CoPs through intentional collaborative research (Cochrane et al., 2021; Cochrane & Kligyte, 2007; Cochrane & Narayan, 2016, 2018; Cronin et al., 2016). A framework for sustaining educational research CoPs will be illustrated by the establishment of the SoTEL Research Network (https://sotel.nz and https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sotel/).

About the speaker: Associate Professor, Technology Enhanced Learning in Higher Education, in the Centre for the Study of Higher education (CSHE), University of Melbourne. Thomas has expertise in Qualitative research in technology-enhanced learning, with a focus upon action research, and design-based research methodologies. His specialisations include mobile learning (Cochrane, 2014), designing mixed reality learning environments (Cochrane, 2016), heutagogy (self-determined learning) (Narayan et al., 2019), communities of practice (Cochrane & Narayan, 2016), and the scholarship of technology enhanced learning (Cochrane et al., 2018). He is also one of the first Senior Certified members of the Association for Learning Technology (SCMALT).

BE, BD, GDHE, MTS, MComp, PHD (Monash), SCMALT.

ORCiD: 0000-0002-0192-6118

HADES Seminar Series: Humanities in the Digital Age
From the Humanities and Diverse eResearch Scholars group (HADES), this series brings together a wide range of interdisciplinary research at the intersection of Humanities and digital scholarship. We will hear from speakers on topics ranging from digital ethics and machine learning through to architecture and literary studies, but always with a focus on the crucial role that the Humanities play in helping to explain and shape complex human experiences. The series aims to challenge and extend understandings of digital research in the Humanities and present new and emerging work by scholars working across and between disciplines.

Seminars will usually be held monthly on the third Thursday of every month at 3:30pm.