Enhancing teacher competence through online training

Asia-Pacific Education Researcher

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 371-386

  Orleans, Antriman V ^a  

^a PHILIPPINE NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Online teacher training; Pedagogical content knowledge; Teacher competence

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649779408     PISSN: 01195646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3860/taper.v19i3.1848     Document Type: Article

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