The influence of an online community of practice on professional development for online teaching: Case study on kindergartens

How they used Delve

Two investigators at the University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Education used Delve to code and categorize data from three kindergartens in a case study of how an online community of practice supported teachers' professional development for online teaching, applying deductive codes from communities-of-practice theory and regrouping them into themes.

“To conduct rigorous qualitative data analysis, the two investigators undertook a multistage process of examining, coding, categorizing, and interpreting data as outlined by Mills and Gay (2015) using a qualitative research coding software called Delve Tool. [...] After generalizing the themes, the codes were rearranged based on the themes using Delve Tool.”

Field

early childhood education; teacher professional development; online teaching

Data

Qualitative data from three Hong Kong kindergartens taking part in an online community of practice for online teaching during the pandemic

Approach

Multiple-case study of three kindergartens; deductive coding from Wenger's community-of-practice framework, themes generated per Clarke & Braun and regrouped into domain, community and practice

Data types

Interviews, Documents