Using Social Network Analysis to Study How Collegial Interactions Can Augment Teacher Learning from External Professional Development

Using Social Network Analysis to Study How Collegial Interactions Can Augment Teacher Learning from External Professional Development

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Teacher professional learning and development

The International Academy of Education (IAE) is a not-for-profit scientific association that promotes educational research, and its dissemination and implementation. Founded in 1986, the Academy is dedicated to strengthening the contributions of research, solving critical educational problems throughout the world, and providing better communication among policy makers, researchers, and practiti...

Teacher professional learning communities: Going beyond contrived collegiality toward challenging debate and collegial learning and professional growth

Approaches to Using Video Cases in Teacher Professional Development

Design In The Classroom (DITC) is a teacher professional development program that uses videos and related materials to support middle-school science and tech ed teachers in learning about, implementing and managing design tasks successfully in the complex realm of classroom teaching. Cases are reported of how these interactive multimedia materials were used by teachers in Massachusetts and Geor...

How social network analysis can help to measure cohesion in collaborative distance-learning

It has been argued that cohesion plays a central role in collaborative learning. In face-to-face classes, it can be reckoned from several visual or oral cues. In a Learning Management System or CSCL environment, such cues are absent. In this paper, we show that Social Network Analysis concepts, adapted to the collaborative distance-learning context, can help measuring the cohesion of small grou...