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Digital technologies for school collaboration / Anastasia Gouseti.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave Macmillan's digital education and learning seriesPublisher: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 199 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1137375736
  • 9781137375735
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.3344678 23
LOC classification:
  • LB1044.87 .G68 2014
Contents:
1. Web-based School Collaboration: the Promises and Problems -- 2. Digital Technologies in Education: New Tools for New Times? -- 3. Collaborative Experiences in Practice: Case Studies from the United Kingdom -- 4. Collaborative Experiences in Practice: Case Studies from Greece -- 5. The Bigger Picture: Understanding Web-based School Collaboration -- 6. Conclusions and Suggestions for Improving School Collaboration-- Where Now?.
Summary: "Web-based school collaboration has attracted the sustained attention of educators, policy-makers and governmental bodies around the world during the past decade. This book sheds new light on this topical but ever so complex issue. Drawing on a wealth of theoretical and empirical work, it presents the various models of available school twinning programs and explores the cultural, political and economic factors that surround the recent enthusiasm regarding collaborative initiatives. Moreover, the book critically examines teachers' and students' experiences of web-based school collaboration. In particular, it develops a realistic perspective of the range of challenges they face and identifies the host of technological and non-technological issues that can shape participation in collaborative programs"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Web-based School Collaboration: the Promises and Problems -- 2. Digital Technologies in Education: New Tools for New Times? -- 3. Collaborative Experiences in Practice: Case Studies from the United Kingdom -- 4. Collaborative Experiences in Practice: Case Studies from Greece -- 5. The Bigger Picture: Understanding Web-based School Collaboration -- 6. Conclusions and Suggestions for Improving School Collaboration-- Where Now?.

"Web-based school collaboration has attracted the sustained attention of educators, policy-makers and governmental bodies around the world during the past decade. This book sheds new light on this topical but ever so complex issue. Drawing on a wealth of theoretical and empirical work, it presents the various models of available school twinning programs and explores the cultural, political and economic factors that surround the recent enthusiasm regarding collaborative initiatives. Moreover, the book critically examines teachers' and students' experiences of web-based school collaboration. In particular, it develops a realistic perspective of the range of challenges they face and identifies the host of technological and non-technological issues that can shape participation in collaborative programs"-- Provided by publisher.

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