Intel® Teach - Advanced Online: Teachers’ Use of and Attitudes Toward Online Platform for Professional Development
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Professional development of teachers has been recently highlighted as one of the essential conditions for the sustainability of classroom innovation and of the key contributors for the achievement of the world’s top-performing school systems. This paper examines findings from the evaluation of a large-scale professional development program for technology integration “Intel® Teach Advanced Online” to determine how teachers in Germany accept and use the online platform of a blended program and to draw some conclusions and implications about different elements of the program and the online platform.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009