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PEN-I-BEN: AN ONLINE COMMUNITY OF NEWLY APPOINTED HEAD TEACHERS AND THEIR MENTORS IN WALES, UK Geraint Lang, University of Chester, United Kingdom Online
technology has enhanced anytime anywhere learning, enabling users to
pursue their learning away from the more familiar constraints of one
physical location, usually confined to a pre-determined time and
date. For education professionals it has opened up new possibilities
of developing facilitated online communities of practice, where
members can share their knowledge and contribute valuable learning
to their peers. This paper recounts how one such facilitated online
educational community of practice, Pen-i-Ben, which supported newly
appointed head teachers and their mentors across Wales for two
years, assisted in the reduction of professional isolation and made
possible the sharing of good practice. |
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