ERIC Number: EJ922862
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1065-0741
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Conceptualising Teachers' Professional Learning with Web 2.0
Burden, Kevin John
Campus-Wide Information Systems, v27 n3 p148-161 2010
Purpose: This paper seeks to identify and develop an exploratory framework for conceptualising how teachers might use the affordances of Web 2.0 technologies to support their own professional learning. Design/methodology/approach: The paper draws on a large corpus of literature and recent research evidence to identify the principal elements and features of professional learning and the underlying affordances of Web 2.0 technologies and applications. It generates an exploratory conceptual framework based on the emerging findings from this review using a socio-cultural theoretical perspective. The framework is explored through three individual illustrations which are drawn from a much larger case study which the author is undertaking within a newly established Academy in the North of England. Findings: The findings indicate that there is potential value in exploring professional learning with Web 2.0 technologies in the ways described. The framework offers an exploratory instrument to examine how professional learning for teachers could be supported with Web 2.0 technologies in ways that might have significant benefits over traditional methods of continuing professional development (CPD). Originality/value: The potential value and affordances of Web 2.0 technologies for teachers' professional learning are largely unexplored and under-theorised, and this work seeks to establish a framework for further discussion and empirical exploration. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Simulation, Case Studies, Program Descriptions, Inservice Teacher Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Adult Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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