Creating and maintaining online communities of practice in Malaysian Smart Schools: Challenging realities

Educational Action Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 87-105

  Thang, Siew Ming ^a   Hall, Carol ^b   Murugaiah, Puvaneswary ^c   Azman, Hazita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Community of practice; Continuing professional development; Online learning; Smart Schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951779000     PISSN: 09650792     EISSN: 17475074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09650792.2011.547724     Document Type: Article

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