Collaborative electronic network building
Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching - Special double issue on telecommunications
Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching - Special double issue on telecommunications
LabNet: an international electronic community for professional development
Computers & Education - Special issue: education and the Internet
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education
TAPPED IN: a new on-line teacher community concept for the next generation of internet technology
CSCL '97 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Computer support for collaborative learning
CRPIT '03 Proceedings of the 3.1 and 3.3 working groups conference on International federation for information processing: ICT and the teacher of the future - Volume 23
Computers in Human Behavior
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Over the past two decades, computer mediated communication (CMC) technologies have been used in a variety of efforts aimed at fostering teacher learning and teacher collaboration. This study is an attempt to closely examine the literature on the use of electronic networks for creating reflective teacher communities. We found that many teacher networks pursued the goal of building learning and reflective communities for teachers. Much was expected out of electronic teacher networks both as a practical solution to the stubborn problems in teacher professional development and as a new agent to create what is difficult to realize in face-to-face situations. However, we found a general lack of rigorous research on these networks. Little is known about the effectiveness of these networks on teacher learning. Few seriously examined to what degree the networks indeed were “communities” that promote “reflective discourses.”