Redesigning professional development: reconceptualising teaching using social learning technologies
Abstract
This article evaluates the use of a community of practice model for redesigning a lecturer professional development course investigating the impact of mobile web 2.0 technologies in higher education. The results show a significant change in lecturer conceptions of pedagogy were achieved by this approach. Drawing on our experience of two iterations of implementing the new course model we propose a mobile social media framework for enabling pedagogical transformation as part of lecturer professional development.
Keywords: communities of practice; Web 2.0; pedagogy; heutagogy; teaching and learning
(Published: 20 June 2013)
Citation: Research in Learning Technology 2013, 21: 19226 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v21i0.19226
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