Swedish School Leaders Go Online
Urban Carlén and Ove Jobring
IT–university of Göteborg, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Abstract
Swedish school leaders are gathered in a pilot project called School Leaders Online . To build a nation–wide Online Professional Community, Swedish National Agency for School Improvement implemented threaded forums as a tool for school leaders to share experiences about their common topics and work practice. Qualitative methods are used in order to show that participation in an informal learning setting is dependent on how school leaders negotiate meaning of their conditions at work, common topics for constructing knowledge and the capabilities to appropriate threaded forums. One conclusion will explain the importance of using several online tools in learning experiences.
Keywords
Online professional community, school leaders, negotiation of meaning, implementation, threaded forum
Keynote Speakers
Peter Goodyear, University of Sydney
Beijing Normal University
Vera A. Solis, Universidad Centroamericana
Lawrence Hamburg, Higher Education Academy
Sten Ludvigsen, Intermedia, Oslo
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