Teachers' Professional Development in the Digitized World: A Sample Blended Learning Environment for Educational Technology Training

Teachers' Professional Development in the Digitized World: A Sample Blended Learning Environment for Educational Technology Training

Emsal Ates Ozdemir, Kenan Dikilitaş
ISBN13: 9781466696242|ISBN10: 1466696249|EISBN13: 9781466696259
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9624-2.ch007
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Ozdemir, Emsal Ates, and Kenan Dikilitaş. "Teachers' Professional Development in the Digitized World: A Sample Blended Learning Environment for Educational Technology Training." Leadership and Personnel Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 145-154. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9624-2.ch007

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Ozdemir, E. A. & Dikilitaş, K. (2016). Teachers' Professional Development in the Digitized World: A Sample Blended Learning Environment for Educational Technology Training. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Leadership and Personnel Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 145-154). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9624-2.ch007

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Ozdemir, Emsal Ates, and Kenan Dikilitaş. "Teachers' Professional Development in the Digitized World: A Sample Blended Learning Environment for Educational Technology Training." In Leadership and Personnel Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 145-154. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9624-2.ch007

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Abstract

Professional development for in-service English language teachers has increasingly become a need in higher education not only in Turkey but across the world. Due to the limited time teachers have and the distance between the source of service and the potential participants, using digitized activities and materials have naturally become a necessity. The purpose of this research is to report the potential impact of the course described below and discuss the role of blended learning experience of professional development on the participating teachers. The theoretical background of the study is experiential learning initiated by Kolb and socio-constructivist learning theory by Vygotsky in that both theories highlight the role of experiencing the change and focus on personal meanings and learning with and from others in real and online environments.

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