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International Journal of STEM Education

Table 1 CoP guiding principles that promote bottom-up, faculty-driven STEM education reform*

From: Accelerating STEM education reform: linked communities of practice promote creation of open educational resources and sustainable professional development

• Shared goals and commitments

• Heterogeneous groups with varying levels (novice to expert) of equally valued expertise in content and pedagogy

• Psychological safety (openness and trust among participants)

• Collaboration, sharing, and dissemination of information

• Openness to learning from each other to build collective knowledge

• Space for serendipitous innovation and creativity

• Critique for the promotion of both excellence in OER and scholarship

  1. *Based on Conole (2012), Hegarty (2015), Lotrecchiano et al., (2021), and Stokols et al. (2008)
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