@conference{6661625d09ae480a81b6e3eaa03d023b,
title = "A Virtual Teacher Community to Facilitate",
abstract = "Information technologies revolution calls for new skills and teachers{\textquoteright} qualifications. In order to help secondary school education to meet the requirements raised by the changes in information and educational technologies, development of new curricula and supporting materials is necessary, on the one hand, and building relevant teachers knowledge and skills, on the other. The paper discusses the problem for supporting teachers{\textquoteright} professional development. Building a virtual community of teachers and experts is proposed in order to support teachers in building new knowledge and skills and to motivate and help them to collaborate, share and reuse educational resources.",
keywords = "Vommunities of practice, Competence development, Lifelong learning, teacher training",
author = "Desislava Ratcheva and Eliza Stefanova and Iliana Nikolova",
note = "DS_Description: Paper presented at the ISSEP 2006: Informatics Education – The Bridge between Using and Understanding Computers, Viluis, Lithuania, 7-11 November 2006 DS_Citation:Ratcheva D., Stefanova E., Nikolova I. (2006), “A Virtual Teacher Community to Facilitate Professional Development”, Proceedings of the ISSEP 2006: Informatics Education – The Bridge between Using and Understanding Computers, Viluis, Lithuania, 7-11 November 2006, ISBN 9955-680-47-4, pp.297-305 DS_Sponsorship:The work on this publication has been sponsored by the TENCompetence Integrated Project that is funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme, priority IST/Technology Enhanced Learning. Contract 027087 [http://www.tencompetence.org]",
year = "2006",
month = dec,
day = "1",
language = "English",
}