Collaborating with others trying to do the same thing: coordination in an educational improvement network

Authors:
Peter Samuelson Wardrip
Affiliations:
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Supporting group work
Year:
2012

Citing 5
Cited 0

The interdisciplinary study of coordination

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Coordination mechanisms: towards a conceptual foundation of CSCW systems design

Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Special issue on the design of cooperative systems
Bringing Work Back In

Organization Science
Gaffers, Gofers, and Grips: Role-Based Coordination in Temporary Organizations

Organization Science
Minding the Gaps: Understanding Technology Interdependence and Coordination in Knowledge Work

Organization Science

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

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.