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Direct linkLee, 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
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
Nochumson, Talia C. – Professional Development in Education, 2020
Teachers' use of online social networking to support their learning may have important implications for classroom teaching practices. This mixed methods study investigated how elementary schoolteachers used Twitter professionally. Teachers described what they learned from Twitter and how they applied their new learning to their teaching.…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Teaching Methods, Technology Integration, Faculty Development
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
Marklund, Leif – Professional Development in Education, 2015
This paper focuses on preschool teachers' use of online social networks for discussions about tablets in preschools. Posts initiating discussions (n = 465) were analysed to increase understanding of what questions tablets raise among preschool teachers and to understand online communication from a professional development perspective. Posts were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Krutka, Daniel G. – Professional Development in Education, 2015
Traditional, top-down professional development (PD) can render teachers mere implementers of the ideas of others, but there is some hope that the participatory nature of social media such as Twitter might support more grassroots PD. To better understand Twitter's role in education, we conducted a survey of K-16 educators regarding their use of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Computer Mediated Communication
