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Lee, Lai Har Judy; Rahmat, Rozi Binte; Lin, Li; Lim, Poh Heng; Tan, Toh Hwee – Professional Development in Education, 2023
A networked learning community (NLC) comprises teachers from different schools engaging collaboratively in purposeful and sustained professional learning. Networked learning entails the construction of knowledge that is new to the members of the group by tapping their collective practitioner knowledge and the public knowledge base. Members can use…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Communities of Practice, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries
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Carpenter, Jeffrey; Tani, Tania; Morrison, Scott; Keane, Julie – Professional Development in Education, 2022
In the last decade, social media have become important tools for educator professional development, learning and community. While education has traditionally proven to be an isolating profession, technologies such as Twitter offer opportunities for educators to collaborate beyond their school, district, region and nation. Education-related Twitter…
Descriptors: Social Media, Social Networks, Communities of Practice, Teachers
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Li, Yue; Krasny, Marianne E. – Professional Development in Education, 2020
Professional development programs provide an opportunity for environmental educators to develop networks to exchange ideas and practices in professional learning communities. This study investigated how diverse educators develop professional networks for exchanging information through online and face-to-face professional development activities. We…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Environmental Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Teacher Collaboration
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Owen, Hazel – Professional Development in Education, 2017
This article shares the journeys of two New Zealand secondary school educators participating in the Virtual Professional Learning and Development programme, who developed sufficient confidence to undertake a Developing Virtual Mentor role in the initiative. Qualitative and quantitative data were developed into stories of change and illustrate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Secondary School Teachers, Mentors