Higher Education Academic Staff: Professional Identity and Sense of Community as the Key to Enhancing Teaching Quality - The Culture of Sharing Educational Resources in the Catalan University System

Teresa Sancho Vinuesa, M. Rosa Estela Carbonell, Clàudia Sànchez Bonvehí, Joana Villalonga Pons

2014

Abstract

This study presents an analysis of the main features of teaching community of the Catalan university system, from both the individual activity of professors and the sense of belonging to a community. The basis of the present study is the meaning and the sense of community: a required factor for collaboration between professors, sharing and reusing teaching resources and, for ultimately, the success of a teaching and learning resources repository. Common goals that determine a community of practice can encourage collaboration through the network. The discussion presented here is based on the analysis of the pilot program “Col•laboratori Interuniversitari de Recursos d’Aprenentatge en Xarxa” (CIRAX), developed in 2013 in the field of teaching and learning introductory mathematics in the Catalan university system.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sancho Vinuesa T., Estela Carbonell M., Sànchez Bonvehí C. and Villalonga Pons J. (2014). Higher Education Academic Staff: Professional Identity and Sense of Community as the Key to Enhancing Teaching Quality - The Culture of Sharing Educational Resources in the Catalan University System . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 3: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-022-2, pages 105-110. DOI: 10.5220/0004956001050110

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu14,
author={Teresa Sancho Vinuesa and M. Rosa Estela Carbonell and Clàudia Sànchez Bonvehí and Joana Villalonga Pons},
title={Higher Education Academic Staff: Professional Identity and Sense of Community as the Key to Enhancing Teaching Quality - The Culture of Sharing Educational Resources in the Catalan University System},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 3: CSEDU,},
year={2014},
pages={105-110},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004956001050110},
isbn={978-989-758-022-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 3: CSEDU,
TI - Higher Education Academic Staff: Professional Identity and Sense of Community as the Key to Enhancing Teaching Quality - The Culture of Sharing Educational Resources in the Catalan University System
SN - 978-989-758-022-2
AU - Sancho Vinuesa T.
AU - Estela Carbonell M.
AU - Sànchez Bonvehí C.
AU - Villalonga Pons J.
PY - 2014
SP - 105
EP - 110
DO - 10.5220/0004956001050110