It is my goal to create a Community of Practice in my youth development profession and the following research reinforces to me my interest in collaborative learning within my department

Of course, communities of practice (CoP) are not a new phenom...More

Blended learning is an example of a constructivist method of learning, which allows learners to build their own knowledge and where the environment frames one’s thinking. While it appears there are various positives to constructivism, such as a lear...More

The Social Learning Theory was introduced by Bandura in the 1960s, however, its roots come from behaviorism which can be traced to the 1800s. Bandura “posits that learning occurs in a social context with a dynamic and reciprocal interaction of t...More

Collaborative Learning

The idea of ubiquitous learning became real to me in 2001 when I enrolled in an online master’s program at Seton Hall University. Though the university was within an hour’s drive of my home in New Jersey, it simply wasn’t...More

This past spring, I took a graduate course at Rutgers University called Organizational Communication Networks. The focus was on social networks concepts and methods used to understand relationships in and among organizations. While it was a diff...More