TeLLNet
01/01/2019
The TeLLNet project aimed to better understand the construct of teacher networks and how they can offer informal ways to support teachers' competence building and personal and professional development.
Why some teachers get the "eTwinning" virus and are able to spread it around - and others not.
Policies and research acknowledge teachers' role in developing innovation in education and training practices. There is particularly a need to harness the transformative potential of ICT for innovative and effective teaching and learning approaches with the potential to equip both teachers and learners with new skills for jobs and lifelong learning. The assumption is that a Learning Network is a suitable support for competence development. Such networks can have a key role in supporting in-service teachers in their changing role, encouraging their professional development and sharing good practices. It is important to understand the dynamic and multidirectional flow of social influence within such networks.
The project Teachers' Lifelong Learning Network "TeLLNet" studies the eTwinning network, which currently includes over 180 000 teachers, through visualisation techniques, Social Network Analysis (SNA) and prospective scenario building exercises. Using these techniques, the projects aims to identify the main structures, actors, networks and Communities of practice that are effective in sharing practices, encouraging innovation and creativity at schools and engaging new members. This will help to understand the motivations and drivers for people to be part of these networks.
This will particularly enable providing better support and services and more needs-focused lifelong in-service professional development. The research focuses on identifying
- drivers and barriers for lifelong professional development of networked teachers
- mechanisms for disseminating practices within and across networks
- innovating new peer-learning approaches within a European-wide teacher networks.
Project results are embedded through:
- eTwinning networks (for National Support Services, teachers' lifelong learning and in-service professional development, as well as youth and pupils' citizenship) and
- European Schoolnet's education policy makers’ networks.
Download the TeLLNet book: Today’s and tomorrow’s challenges and opportunities for the teaching profession (pdf)
Website: http://www.tellnet.eun.org
Status: Past
