Abstract
The study focuses on the participation of pre-service teachers in a course website set up on Moodle and a website developed by students on their own initiative to support their Teaching Practice. It explores PSTs' experiences and perceptions of the two different types of websites and how their online participation linked with the sense of community. Utilizing questionnaire as the main source of data, the paper reveals that the student teachers had more positive perceptions of the self-initiated website which was regarded as a useful platform for exchanging teaching ideas, sharing resources, gaining support, and maintaining communication with their fellow coursemates. The frequency of reading the self-initiated website was also correlated with the sense of community.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computers in Education ICCE 2012 |
| Editors | Gautam Biswas, Lung-Hsiang Wong, Tsukasa Hirashima, Wenli Chen |
| Publisher | Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education |
| Pages | 787-791 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789810746490 |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2012 |
| Event | 20th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2012 - , Singapore Duration: 26 Nov 2012 → 30 Nov 2012 https://apsce.net/conference_4_detail.php?id=710 https://apsce.net/download_data.php?filename=upfile/pdf/proceedings-of-icce2012-01.pdf |
Conference
| Conference | 20th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2012 |
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| Country/Territory | Singapore |
| Period | 26/11/12 → 30/11/12 |
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User-Defined Keywords
- Online community
- Perceptions
- Pre-service teacher