Partnership among Schools in E-Learning Implementation: Implications on Elements for Sustainable Development

The study looked into how school partnership generates benefit. It aimed to identify the structures of partnership among collaborating schools and to examine elements that can contribute to sustainable e-Learning development. Six cluster project cases were purposefully selected from an e-Learning pi...

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Main Author: Siu Cheung Kong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Forum of Educational Technology & Society 2019-01-01
Series:Educational Technology & Society
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Online Access:https://sites.google.com/view/journalets/collection/published-issues/22_1?authuser=2#h.c2hckp3z3ew7
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description The study looked into how school partnership generates benefit. It aimed to identify the structures of partnership among collaborating schools and to examine elements that can contribute to sustainable e-Learning development. Six cluster project cases were purposefully selected from an e-Learning pilot scheme in Hong Kong to investigate how school partnership functions in e-Learning implementation through semi-structured focus group interviews. The findings identified five types of partnership structures that were adopted by the six e-Learning cluster projects, namely, a traditional leader-centered team leadership; a fusion of traditional leader-centered and distributed team leadership; a distributed-coordinated team leadership; an intermediate form of distributed-coordinated and distributed-fragmented team leadership; and a duplicated distributed team leadership structure. Elements including mutual benefit, active school engagement with dynamic communication and interaction, reasonable team size, and co-building of online sharing platform for channeling ideas and actions efficiently are critical to keep e-Learning school partnership sustainable.
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spelling doaj.art-493143da2552455d85ae9a98216cb82c2022-12-22T03:54:54ZengInternational Forum of Educational Technology & SocietyEducational Technology & Society1176-36471436-45222019-01-012212843Partnership among Schools in E-Learning Implementation: Implications on Elements for Sustainable Development Siu Cheung Kong0Department of Mathematics and Information Technology, The Education University of Hong KongThe study looked into how school partnership generates benefit. It aimed to identify the structures of partnership among collaborating schools and to examine elements that can contribute to sustainable e-Learning development. Six cluster project cases were purposefully selected from an e-Learning pilot scheme in Hong Kong to investigate how school partnership functions in e-Learning implementation through semi-structured focus group interviews. The findings identified five types of partnership structures that were adopted by the six e-Learning cluster projects, namely, a traditional leader-centered team leadership; a fusion of traditional leader-centered and distributed team leadership; a distributed-coordinated team leadership; an intermediate form of distributed-coordinated and distributed-fragmented team leadership; and a duplicated distributed team leadership structure. Elements including mutual benefit, active school engagement with dynamic communication and interaction, reasonable team size, and co-building of online sharing platform for channeling ideas and actions efficiently are critical to keep e-Learning school partnership sustainable.https://sites.google.com/view/journalets/collection/published-issues/22_1?authuser=2#h.c2hckp3z3ew7e-learningpartnership structuresschool educationschool partnershipsustainable elements
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Partnership among Schools in E-Learning Implementation: Implications on Elements for Sustainable Development
Educational Technology & Society
e-learning
partnership structures
school education
school partnership
sustainable elements
title Partnership among Schools in E-Learning Implementation: Implications on Elements for Sustainable Development
title_full Partnership among Schools in E-Learning Implementation: Implications on Elements for Sustainable Development
title_fullStr Partnership among Schools in E-Learning Implementation: Implications on Elements for Sustainable Development
title_full_unstemmed Partnership among Schools in E-Learning Implementation: Implications on Elements for Sustainable Development
title_short Partnership among Schools in E-Learning Implementation: Implications on Elements for Sustainable Development
title_sort partnership among schools in e learning implementation implications on elements for sustainable development
topic e-learning
partnership structures
school education
school partnership
sustainable elements
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