Virtual Organizing Professional Learning Communities through a Servant-Leader Model of Appreciative Coaching

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Author(s): Kam Hou Vat (University of Macau, Macau)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 24
Source title: Cases on Online and Blended Learning Technologies in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Yukiko Inoue (University of Guam, Guam)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-880-2.ch011

Keywords: Blended & Mobile Learning / Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference

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This case investigates a set of empowerment concerns in the context of transforming classes of student and teacher learners (considered as department-wide learning units in higher education) into professional learning communities (PLCs). In particular, we are interested in enhancing student learning through designing a collaborative learning environment in support of problem-based learning, based on the concept of virtual organizing the various PLCs distributed throughout a higher educational institute. Of specific interest in our exploration is the generative potential of a servant-leader model of student-centered education in support of the PLCs nurtured by the development practice of appreciative coaching adapted from the established positive change paradigm of appreciative inquiry.

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