Many organizations employ lessons learned (LL) processes to collect, analyze, store, and distribute, validated experiential knowledge (lessons) of their members that, when reused, can substantially improve organizational decision processes. Unfortunately, deployed LL systems do not facilitate lesson reuse and fail to bring lessons to the attention of the users when and where they are needed and...

Many organizations employ lessons learned (LL) processes to collect, analyze, store, and distribute, validated experiential knowledge (lessons) of their members that, when reused, can substantially improve organizational decision processes. Unfortunately, deployed LL systems do not facilitate lesson reuse and fail to bring lessons to the attention of the users when and where they are needed and...

Many organizations employ lessons learned (LL) processes to collect, analyze, store, and distribute, validated experiential knowledge (lessons) of their members that, when reused, can substantially improve organizational decision processes. Unfortunately, deployed LL systems do not facilitate lesson reuse and fail to bring lessons to the attention of the users when and where they are needed and...

This paper presents the ongoing work for designing, developing, and deploying a webbased support tool for pre-service credential candidates in special education teacher training programs. Our application is divided into two major components: E-portfolio Manager and Lesson Plan Creator. To help reduce the workload of credential candidates as well as improve their professional teaching skills, we...

In Japan, Lesson Study (LS) has been used for many years as a way to connect teacher's learning with practice and to support professional development through teaching (Lewis, 2005; Lewis & Tsuchida, 1998; Stigler & Hiebert, 1999). During LS, teams of teachers meet regularly to work on the design, implementation, and improvement of one or several lessons. Members of the team plan the lesson. One...