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Teacher Role Adoption and Barriers to Participation in an Online Educational Social Network
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Kamalodeen, Vimala Judy |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | This study focused on how teachers participated in an educational social networking site. An online space was created to facilitate networking among teachers, sharing of best practices and to provide support to one another in an era of increasing teacher isolation and challenging work environments. This paper reports on this initiative in Trinidad and Tobago, a small island in the Caribbean, and the roles teachers adopted during participation on the site. Analysis of findings indicates that teachers preferred to participate minimally on the site and to consume content by reading rather than produce. As such their roles of participation are described as content consumers rather than content creators or producers. A number of barriers to higher participation were found and these included cultural, social, motivational, time and technological. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://infonomics-society.org/wp-content/uploads/ijtie/published-papers/volume-2-2013/Teacher-Role-Adoption-and-Barriers-to-Participation-in-an-Online-Educational-Social-Network.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
