Cultural and organisational issues facing online learning communities of teachers

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 11, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 269-282

  Carr, Nicky ^a   Chambers, Dianne P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collegial sharing; Communities; Online communications; Professional learning; Reflection on practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751011624     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: 15737608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10639-006-9024-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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