This paper presents a systematic review of 52 empirical studies of formally-organized and
informally-developed online teacher communities from the early 2000s to the present time …

In this collaborative research, we designed an e-mentoring program for novice teachers and
explored online interactions between mentors and mentees, participant satisfaction, and the …

Capacity building usually follows any initiative. This also applies to education especially
after curriculum reforms. This is to equip teachers with enough skills that would make them …

The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to describe the perceptions of
elementary teachers about professional development experiences in a Catholic diocese in …

Preliminary efforts to examine teachers' online participation and depth of messages have
tended to focus solely on message metrics (eg, counting the number of messages) …

Abstract The report,“The Ready to Teach Program: A Federal Initiative in Support of Online
Courses for Teachers”, describes the history of the Ready to Teach Program and its role as …

Over the last three decades, there have been substantial advances in the literature on
understanding the essential design principles and necessary features of teacher …

As the content knowledge of the world grows, so do the demands placed upon our
educational system. These demands come from a variety of sources—local, state, national …

This study examines peer interaction and peer assistance observed in on an online forum,
part of a graduate level instructional design course during the 2008 spring academic term. It …

The current traditional face-to-face professional development (PD) for teachers has proven
to be ineffective, being fragmented and not related to their needs. Online professional …