Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of webbased community of practice in teacher's professional development. The focus is on e-portfolio assisted mentoring for professional development in a web-based community of practice. The design and structure of a community of practice is presented with the study of impact on competence development. The focus of survey was to establish, how pedagogic workers assess the participation in a web-based community of practice on the development of their personal competences. The paper finds that the participation in a web-based community had important influence on teacher's competence development.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2008 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, SAINT 2008 |
Place of Publication | Piscataway, NJ |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
Pages | 317-320 |
Number of pages | 4 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780769532974 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Event | 2008 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, SAINT 2008 - Turku, Finland Duration: 28 Jul 2008 → 1 Aug 2008 |
Other
Other | 2008 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, SAINT 2008 |
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Country/Territory | Finland |
City | Turku |
Period | 28/07/08 → 1/08/08 |