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Telelearning Network of Centres of Excellence: Educating the Educators/Réseau des centres d'excellences en TéléApprentissage: Formation des pédagogues. - english information
http://www.tact.fse.ulaval.ca/
Canada
TACT is a virtual community of support and communication for professional development. The acronym TACT stands for TéléApprentissage Communautaire et Transformatif (French), and for Technology for Advanced Collaborative Teaching (English). It stresses that successful integration of web-based facilities into the learning and, later, working environment implies extensive reconceptualization of the professional teacher's pedagogy. TACT is a professional development community on the web. Its designers builds on computer-mediated communication (CMC) research and on computer-support for collaborative learning (CSCL) research which increasingly reveals the potential for support, communication, and joint ventures as knowledge-building, collective understanding, and co-construction of meaning occur. Pre-service and in-service teachers who use this professional development website ( PDW) are encouraged into a more collaborative type of learning and instruction. The site provides information on the TeleLearning Professional Development School is a multi-site network of teacher educators from Canadian Faculties of Education engaged in collaborative research with practitioners working on effective integration of telelearning activities in partner associated schools. It is a research activity of the TeleLearning Network of Centres of Excellence, funded in September 1995 through the Social Science Research Council of Canada, which aims at building new models of professional development and teacher education that are required today to address the new needs for technology knowledge and use of technology of practicing and graduating school teachers.
Keywords
distance education; research; information technology; teacher; teacher education; in-service teacher education; learning; network; interactive communication; organization;
Resource type: | Other Resource Type |
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Language: | French |
URL (original): | http://www.tact.fse.ulaval.ca/ |
Record-ID: | 643 |
Update: | 24.02.2014 |
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