The effects of online professional development on higher education teachers' beliefs and intentions towards learning facilitation and technology

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 122-131

  Rienties, Bart ^a   Brouwer, Natasa ^b   Lygo Baker, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Higher education; Impact; Pre post test; Quantitative; Teacher beliefs and intentions towards learning; Teacher education; TPACK

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867287230     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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