Exploring Five Online Collaboration Tools to Facilitate a Professional Learning Community
Department
Instructional Technology
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-1-2018
Abstract
Critical Friends Groups (CFGs) are a form professional learning community that has been used for teacher learning in K-12 environments for many years. In order to foster community and learning amongst distributed participants, CFGs are beginning to make their way online. This article describes the expereience of a four-year old online CFG whose goal was to explore how different technologies can support the work of a virtual CFG by being an online CFG. This article describes the technologies used to host this CFG, the attributes of those technologies to support this collaborative work and the lessons learned from the group’s experience.
Journal Title
TechTrends
Journal ISSN
8756-3894
Volume
62
Issue
6
First Page
612
Last Page
617
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1007/s11528-018-0288-3
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