TERC MSPnet: An Electronic Community of Practice Facilitating Communication and Collaboration
MSPnet (the Math Science Partnership Network) provides the MSP program with a web-based, interactive electronic community in order to build capacity and enrich the knowledge base of each individual MSP project as well as the MSP learning community as a whole. Specifically, MSPnet:
- expands MSP projects access to, and ability to share, resources, emerging research, tools, best practices, obstacles and strategies;
- strengthens geographically dispersed partnerships by enhancing and sustaining dialogue through innovative collaborative tools, events and structures;
- creates a growing archive, for both researchers and practitioners, of the lessons and accomplishments of the MSP program;
- enhances the public's access to, and knowledge of, the MSP program;
- conducts research on the impact of on-line formats, functionalities and structures to enhance large scale education reform efforts.
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Inverness Research (http://www.invernessFresearch.org) conducted a survey of MSPnet users in Fall 2011 in order to gauge their perceptions of the quality and value of MSPnet's weekly online newsletter, MSPnews and…
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