Developing an online community to promote engagement and professional learning for pre-service teachers using social software tools

Journal of Cases on Information Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-30

  McLoughlin, Catherine ^a   Lee, Mark J W ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asynchronous discussion; Computer mediated communication; Distributed learning; Online learning community; Teacher education; Technology mediated learning; Web based learning

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS DISCUSSIONS; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; DISTRIBUTED LEARNING; ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY; TEACHER EDUCATION; WEB BASED LEARNING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; E-LEARNING; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; TEACHING; TECHNOLOGY;

STUDENTS;

EID: 76449108219     PISSN: 15487717     EISSN: 15487725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jcit.2010010102     Document Type: Article

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