Collaborative learning in crisis: the significance of online CoPs for EAP educators
Collaborative learning in crisis: the significance of online CoPs for EAP educators
Online Communities of Practice (CoPs) played a pivotal role during the challenging period of emergency remote teaching (ERT) brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. CoPs are groups of individuals who share a common concern, interest, expertise, or profession and come together to collaborate, learn, and develop their knowledge and skills in a particular domain. They can play a crucial role in providing teaching support in education. During ERT, these communities facilitated the rapid adaptation to remote learning environments and served as platforms for the exchange of best practices, innovative teaching strategies, and technological insights. They enabled educators to support each other and collaboratively develop new pedagogical strategies and approaches tailored to the unique demands of online language teaching in their respective contexts. To better understand the role online CoPs played during ERT, this study examined the different types of support practitioners in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) pre-sessional programme were seeking or offering, which led them to create or join various online CoPs throughout the pandemic. This presentation will delve into how EAP practitioners defined and perceived online CoPs, the types of CoPs in which they participated and why, the challenges they encounter in participating in these OCoPs, and discuss the importance of fostering these communities as well as the challenges that can arise when building them remotely. Despite living in post-pandemic times, fostering these online communities is crucial for language teachers' practice, especially for those teaching remotely.
de Lima Guedes, Karla
5c7f7565-9a71-4c0b-891f-f87d58be67e0
September 2024
de Lima Guedes, Karla
5c7f7565-9a71-4c0b-891f-f87d58be67e0
de Lima Guedes, Karla
(2024)
Collaborative learning in crisis: the significance of online CoPs for EAP educators.
BAAL Annual Conference 2024, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom.
05 - 07 Sep 2024.
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Online Communities of Practice (CoPs) played a pivotal role during the challenging period of emergency remote teaching (ERT) brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. CoPs are groups of individuals who share a common concern, interest, expertise, or profession and come together to collaborate, learn, and develop their knowledge and skills in a particular domain. They can play a crucial role in providing teaching support in education. During ERT, these communities facilitated the rapid adaptation to remote learning environments and served as platforms for the exchange of best practices, innovative teaching strategies, and technological insights. They enabled educators to support each other and collaboratively develop new pedagogical strategies and approaches tailored to the unique demands of online language teaching in their respective contexts. To better understand the role online CoPs played during ERT, this study examined the different types of support practitioners in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) pre-sessional programme were seeking or offering, which led them to create or join various online CoPs throughout the pandemic. This presentation will delve into how EAP practitioners defined and perceived online CoPs, the types of CoPs in which they participated and why, the challenges they encounter in participating in these OCoPs, and discuss the importance of fostering these communities as well as the challenges that can arise when building them remotely. Despite living in post-pandemic times, fostering these online communities is crucial for language teachers' practice, especially for those teaching remotely.
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BAAL Annual Conference 2024, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom, 2024-09-05 - 2024-09-07
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