Center for Collaborative Action Research

The Center for Collaborative Action Research links educators, researchers, and community members with the goal of creating deep understanding of educational problems in the school context and to encourage evidence-based reasoning to solve these problems. The Center shares collaborative action research projects and supports the development of "knowledge-building" communities. The goal is to share what others are doing to reinvigorate their workplace with the capacity to reflect and adapt to evolving needs.

A year-long Action Research Project forms the centerpiece of the work of students to earn a Master of Arts degree in Educational Technology from Pepperdine University. In this blended face-to-face/online program, the study is directed to helping the students understand this process of progressive problem solving in contexts that are important to them. The program requires a final exhibition and online publication of action research outcomes. The CCAR site showcases the best of these publications as a way to illustrate the way in which this form of inquiry can change not only the person but their context. The program uses distance communication technology to take the learning from the university and seat it in the everyday practices of the students. The translation of theory to practice is not something that happens after the students leave the university, but rather happens every day as the students take on challenges that are important to them. This process of "taking the university to work" is one of the less celebrated but extremely valuable affordances of online learning.

CCAR is based at Pepperdine University in the Graduate School of Education and Psychology under the direction of Margaret Riel, Ph.D and with leadership from the first Associate Director, Karen Elinich, and the able assistance of the 2007-2008 Editorial Board.

Questions? Contact margaret.riel@pepperdine.edu or karen.elinich@pepperdine.edu

CENTER DIRECTOR Margaret Riel, Ph.D.	ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Karen Elinich

2007-2008 EDITORIAL BOARD

Pepperdine Graduate School of Education and Psychology

ACTION RESEARCH ADVISORS

Dr. Paul Sparks

Dr. Margaret Riel

Bill Moseley

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