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How Do Virtual Communities of Practice Enhance Professional Connections and Social Capital?

J Phys Ther Educ

September 2024

Betsy J. Becker is an associate professor in the Physical Therapy Education, College of Allied Health Professions at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 984452 Please address all correspondence to Betsy J. Becker.

Introduction: Communities of Practice (CoP) were created to up-skill educators and to mitigate the disruption to physical therapist assistant (PTA) education because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding CoP involves considering individuals and their interactions, making this project significant for pioneering CoP among PTA educators, and using social network analysis (SNA). The research question for this mixed-methods concurrent triangulation study was "To what extent did the network structure of virtual CoP reflect PTA educators' perceptions of participation and mentorship?"

Subjects: Forty of 60 CoP members participated in this study.

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