E-Learning and Comprehensive School and Kindergarten Development

The content of this article includes experiences and results of a comprehensive development project for schools and kindergartens in Denmark. The project includes all pedagogical professionals within the organization and contains a professional development sequence based on among other things e-learning where pedagogical professionals collaboratively develop their common and individual practices. The article takes a look at both the challenges and potentials that have surfaced using elearning as part of the framework for both professional and organizational development. In addition, the article proposes how the experience gathered from the existing project can be used as springboard to design new professional development projects where e-learning becomes an important element of competency development for pedagogical professionals in schools and kindergartens closely related to practice. Index Terms blended learning, e-learning, praxis related learning, team-based learning, school and kindergarten