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The BEST site on the internet: An online resource for beginning and establishing successful teachers
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Lisa Kervin
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2646–2651
Beginning teachers face enormous challenges in their first year of teaching. High attrition rates of teachers within the first five years attest to the difficulties inherent in commencing professional life as a teacher. This paper describes the...
Topics: Teachers, Professional Development, Evaluation
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Providing Reflective Online Support for Preservice Teachers on Professional Practice in Schools
Jan Herrington; Ron Oliver; Tony Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 166–171
The forms of support needed by preservice teachers in the practicum setting relate mainly to access to relevant information, resources, guidance and support through communication with university instructors and competent peers. Too often these...
Topics: Students, Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Teachers' perceptions of online modules to promote professional learning of ICT
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Garry Hoban; Doug Reid
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 2229–2238
Online professional learning has the potential to be a cost effective, flexible approach that can reach large numbers of teachers. However, there are many factors that need to be evaluated in developing successful online approaches that impact on...
Topics: Teachers, Evaluation
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Transfer of Online Professional Learning to Teachers’ Classroom Practice
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Garry Hoban; Doug Reid
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 20, No. 2 (April 2009) pp. 189–213
Professional learning is an important process in enabling teachers to update their pedagogical knowledge and practices. The use of online technologies to support professional learning has a number of benefits in terms of flexibility and scalability. ...
Topics: Schools, eLearning, Professional Development, Teachers, Information Communication Technologies
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Supporting Beginning Teachers: A Web-based Collegial Enterprise
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Arshad Omari; Ron Oliver
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 736–742
This paper describes the design, development and evaluation of a website designed to ameliorate many of the problems encountered by beginning teachers. The site allows new teachers, and preservice teachers on school practice, to communicate with...
Topics: Research Methods, Teachers
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Transfer of online professional learning to teachers’ classroom practice: An analysis of eight cases
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Garry Hoban; Doug Reid
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 1383–1389
Professional learning is an important process in enabling teachers to update their pedagogical knowledge and practices. The use of online technologies to support professional learning has a number of benefits in terms of flexibility and scalability. ...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Classrooms
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Beginning teacher network: The design of an online community of practice for beginning teachers in Australia
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Lori Lockyer; Ian Brown
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3251–3258
The high attrition rate of teachers in their first five years of teaching coupled with an ageing teacher profile necessitates innovative approaches to beginning teacher support and professional development. This paper argues (and provides a...
Topics: Community, Teachers, Professional Development, Research Methods
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The Design of an Online Community of Practice for Beginning Teachers
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Lisa Kervin; Brian Ferry
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 6, No. 1 (March 2006) pp. 120–132
Beginning teachers face enormous challenges in their first year of teaching. High attrition rates of teachers within the first five years attest to the difficulties inherent in commencing professional life as a teacher. This paper describes the...
Topics: Information Communication Technologies, Mentoring, Preservice Teacher Education, Teachers, Community
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Online Learning as Information Delivery: Digital Myopia
Jan Herrington; Thomas Reeves; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3582–3590
In the past, the concept of marketing myopia has been a useful tool to predict, analyze and explain the rise and fall of businesses. In this paper, we question whether the concept can be used to predict the ultimate downfall of online learning in...
Topics: Teachers
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Standards for Educational, Edutainment, and Developmentally Beneficial Computer Games
Rob Peterson; Irina Verenikina; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 1307–1316
The results of a comprehensive review of the body of research concerning the developmental and educational value of computer gaming for children is reported. Based on the review, design criteria are proposed for educational and edutainment computer...