What is it about?
This paper shows the participation of teachers in a designed online social network, launched on a Spruz platform. It allowed teachers to connect, learn and share. Teachers were from all subject areas, and hailed from a variety of schools in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Why is it important?
This study aimed to address teacher professional learning, with the flexibility of of time and space. It examined constraints in bin existing teacher PD formats that were largely top down. This bottom up approach aimed to harness the knowledge we have within our community of teachers. It uses a framework of social and online learning.
Perspectives
A main perspective in this paper is teacher online participation- what it was, and why. While data was not large, digital data formed the majority of data collected and analysed. Mixed methods were most useful to collect, analyse and interpret data.
Dr Vimala Judy Kamalodeen
University of the West Indies
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This page is a summary of: A Mixed Methods Research Approach to Exploring Teacher Participation in an Online Social Networking Website, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, March 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1609406915624578.
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