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actively and consciously control their own learning processes in terms of cognition, motivation and behaviour (Zimmerman, 1998; 2000). It matters not only for autonomous learners, but also for learning in social contexts. In the case of a classroom, the selfregulation process does not concern only students, but also teachers (De la Fuente & Justicia, 2007; De la Fuente et al., 2007), because the interaction among these subjects strongly influences the orientation of thoughts, feeling and actions involved in the learning process. Learning to be self-regulated is necessary for teachers in order to deal with the complexity of the teaching role, which requires to take care of different factors. From the personal and individual point of view, teachers need self-regulation to understand themselves as teachers and keep up their motivation (CardelleElawar et al., 2007). In their profession, they need to cope with diverse population of students, pursue different tasks, goals and An online course fostering self-regulation of trainee teachers