Presenters are listed in alphabetical order.
Blending pedagogies in higher education
In this paper, from a practice-oriented approach we jointly reflect on the ways in which technology and scholarship are connected in the context of a social infrastructure, a community of practice (CoP), for instructors in a Faculty of Education at a university in Canada. The goal is to collectively construct new meanings and improve professional skills through exploring, discussing, and reflecting on different types of pedagogical practices among members who teach in both graduate and teacher education as well as in the onsite, blended, and online environments. We share analysis of notes, of visual models and stories from individual CoP members. The ways in which the CoP members made sense of their diverse teaching and social learning landscapes are analyzed as well as emergent joint meanings are shared. This paper has implications for teaching in higher education and on scholarship of teaching. This learning is key in an era where social learning in connected communities is challenged by institutional factors such as structural changes, including those motivated by the neoliberal management culture and the widening research and teaching dichotomy.