ERIC Number: EJ1317498
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
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Building and Sustaining Community in an Online EdD Program
Buss, Ray R.; Wolf, Leigh Graves
Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, v6 n3 p47-53 2021
In this essay, we have described how we build and sustain community in our online EdD program. Initially, we discussed our understanding of community and its influence on our efforts. Then, we discussed three important theoretical frameworks--Wenger's Community of Practice, Garrison et al.'s Community of Inquiry, and Morris and Stommel's Critical Digital Pedagogy--and how those frameworks helped to shape our efforts in building and sustaining an online community. Next, we discussed strategies/processes that we have successfully used to build and sustain community in our online program. These strategies were grouped around three kinds of relationships that have been central to community formation, interaction, and continuation--student-to-student, student-to-faculty, and student-to-broader-community. We discussed specific strategies such as the Leadership Challenge, Doctoral Research Conference, an online program "Hub," comprehensive and immediate feedback, mentoring, and Leader Scholar Communities, that we have found to be particularly useful in building and sustaining an online community.
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Doctoral Programs, Education Courses, Communities of Practice, Critical Theory, Peer Relationship, Doctoral Students, Teacher Student Relationship, College Faculty, School Community Relationship, Sense of Community, Inquiry
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Arizona
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