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Collaborating with Others Trying to Do the Same Thing: Coordination in an Educational Improvement Network

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2012

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Association for Computing Machinery

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The use of networks to support and scale school reform initiatives and educational programs are becoming more and more prevalent. Through an initiative of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT), an emerging organizational form known as a Networked Improvement Community (NIC), offers an infrastructure for implementing and improving educational innovations. Fundamental to the work of this network is the collaboration of multiple actors and teams at multiple sites. Yet, this collaboration across time and space does not just happen. It requires coordination mechanisms to guide the actions of those involved in collaboration. This research seeks to build an initial conceptual framework to study how the joint work on an educational reform happens in a distributed or networked organizational environment. A NIC is a case of one such environment.

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Wardrip, Peter Samuelson (2012): Collaborating with Others Trying to Do the Same Thing: Coordination in an Educational Improvement Network. Proceedings of the 2012 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work. DOI: 10.1145/2389176.2389229. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 301–302. Sanibel Island, Florida, USA

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