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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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Ford, Lance; Vaughn, Courtney – Qualitative Report, 2011
School administrators rarely have the opportunity to confer and share their challenges with colleagues. To address this problem in 2005 the Educational Administration Department (EAD) at Central University (a Midwestern PhD granting institution located in a thriving city of about 100,00 people) created a virtual/local doctoral cohort for 14 school…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Professional Isolation, Doctoral Programs, Phenomenology
Brown, Catherine A.; Koc, Yusuf – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
The purpose of this study is to examine how the diverse members of the mathematics education community (in-service secondary mathematics teachers, in-service secondary mathematics teachers, university mathematicians and university mathematics educators) talk about a multimedia case study on mathematics teaching and learning when they interact both…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Teachers, Computer Mediated Communication, Case Studies
Watt, J. Wilson; Kelly, Michael J. – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1996
Advances in computer technology offer opportunities for rural social workers to reduce their isolation and enhance professional communication and for social work educators to stay in touch with the real-world environment of practitioners. Development of an online journal to enhance professional competence is discussed, focusing on meaningful…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Journals, Higher Education