ICT-based school collaboration, teachers' networks and their opportunities for teachers' professional development - A case study on eTwinning

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7048 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 112-121

  Vuorikari, Riina ^a   Berlanga, Adriana ^d   Cachia, Romina ^b   Cao, Yiwei ^c   Fetter, Sibren ^d   Gilleran, Anne ^a   Klamma, Ralf ^c   Punie, Yves ^b   Scimeca, Santi ^a   Sloep, Peter ^d   Petrushyna, Zinayida ^e  

^a European Schoolnet   (Belgium)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^e NONE

Author keywords

information and communication technologies; information visualisation; professional development; school collaboration; social network analysis; teachers

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; SCHOOL COLLABORATION; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; TEACHERS;

EMPLOYMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VISUALIZATION;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84857336021     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25813-8_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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