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Research on professional development (PD) for teachers in technology integration indicates that collaboration is among the key elements contributing for developing relevant competencies and adopting new teaching practices. This paper examines collaboration between teachers within the large-scale PD program “Intel Teach – Advanced Online” in Germany. The external evaluation of the program provides evidence regarding teachers’ teamwork, their use of the collaboration tools of the online platform, the effects of teachers’ collaboration on their learning and the conditions for collaboration. The findings revealed a strong impact of effective collaboration on individual gains from participation in the program. It was however found that in the conditions of school internal training, teachers showed clear preference for face-to-face interactions, than for using the provided online collaboration tools.
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Todorova, A., Osburg, T. (2010). Conditions and Effects of Teacher Collaboration within a Blended Professional Development Program for Technology Integration. In: Wolpers, M., Kirschner, P.A., Scheffel, M., Lindstaedt, S., Dimitrova, V. (eds) Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice. EC-TEL 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6383. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16020-2_34
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