TY - GEN
T1 - Cultivating lifelong learning
T2 - IST-Africa Conference, IST-Africa 2015
AU - Batchelor, Jacqueline
AU - Lautenbach, Geoffrey
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IIMC International Information Management Corporation Ltd.
PY - 2015/8/11
Y1 - 2015/8/11
N2 - The South African Council for Educators (SACE) is in the process of implementing their Continuous Professional Teacher Development (CPTD) management system. Each teacher working in South Africa is required to sign-up electronically before they participate in their 1st CPTD cycle with each cycle repeated at three year intervals. With the increasing accessibility to online learning for pre-service and in-service teachers, access to CPTD is not limited to SACE endorsed programs and teachers are opting to enroll in less structured opportunities to enhance their own learning experiences through participating in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). With the advent of the MOOC in its many guises and the subsequent proliferation of service providers, there is a pressing need to provide some practical guidance to teachers planning to enrol in a MOOC for their own professional development purposes. This paper reports on pre-service teacher's participation in their first MOOCs as part of their own journey in becoming teachers in the 21st Century. Online and open learning provides many challenges and opportunities for continuous professional development.
AB - The South African Council for Educators (SACE) is in the process of implementing their Continuous Professional Teacher Development (CPTD) management system. Each teacher working in South Africa is required to sign-up electronically before they participate in their 1st CPTD cycle with each cycle repeated at three year intervals. With the increasing accessibility to online learning for pre-service and in-service teachers, access to CPTD is not limited to SACE endorsed programs and teachers are opting to enroll in less structured opportunities to enhance their own learning experiences through participating in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). With the advent of the MOOC in its many guises and the subsequent proliferation of service providers, there is a pressing need to provide some practical guidance to teachers planning to enrol in a MOOC for their own professional development purposes. This paper reports on pre-service teacher's participation in their first MOOCs as part of their own journey in becoming teachers in the 21st Century. Online and open learning provides many challenges and opportunities for continuous professional development.
KW - Continuous Professional Teacher Development
KW - Lifelong learning
KW - Massive Open Online Course
KW - Pre-service teachers
KW - Professional learning networks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84946605747&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2015.7190557
DO - 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2015.7190557
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84946605747
T3 - 2015 IST-Africa Conference, IST-Africa 2015
BT - 2015 IST-Africa Conference, IST-Africa 2015
A2 - Cunningham, Paul
A2 - Cunningham, Miriam
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 6 May 2015 through 8 May 2015
ER -
