Using Video-based Conferencing to Enhance an Online Community of Teaching Practice: Best Practices for e-Moderators

Shelley Waltonen Moore; I-Chun Tsai

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2013 (Jun 24, 2013) pp. 2347–2352

Abstract: This paper reports the preliminary findings of a study conducted on undergraduate pre-service teachers enrolled in an online learning community provided with asynchronous and synchronous technologies to support their professional...

How an Online Teacher Community Supports Teachers' Professional Development: eTRAIN Online Teacher Community

I-Chun Tsai; Shelley Waltonen-Moore

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2013 (Jun 24, 2013) pp. 1473–1479

This paper is aimed to understand how online learning community of practice supports teachers’ professional development, especially how pre-service teachers benefit from the interaction with other teaching professionals in the online learning...

From Virtual Strangers to a Cohesive Learning Community: The Evolution of Online Group Development in a Professional Development Course

Shelley Waltonen-Moore; Denise Stuart; Evangeline Newton; Ruth Oswald; Evangeline Varonis

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 14, No. 2 (April 2006) pp. 287–311

Instructors who teach in online learning environments have the unique opportunity to enhance the interaction of their students through an online threaded discussion board. With effective planning and skillful facilitation techniques, this venue for...

Topics: Interaction, online learning, teacher education, Learning Communities, online education, Preservice Teacher Education, Professional Development, eLearning, Web-based Instruction, computer mediated communication