In recent years, many educators have turned to professional learning networks (PLNs) to
grow in their craft with peers who are more accessible online because of reduced temporal …

The proliferation of online resources and an increase in accessibility has led teachers to go
online to connect, share ideas and expand their own professional learning opportunities on …

While the microblogging service Twitter is increasingly popular among educators and offers
numerous affordances for learning, its relationship with formal education systems remains …

Traditional, top-down professional development (PD) can render teachers mere
implementers of the ideas of others, but there is some hope that the participatory nature of …

Social media use has spiked around the world during the COVID‐19 global pandemic as
people reach out for news, information, social connections, and support in their daily lives …

This study revisits the Carpenter and Krutka survey of how and why educators use Twitter,
through exploring one of Twitter's oldest education hashtags:# Edchat. From October 1 …

Online communities and social-network sites are used to deliver professional-development
services for teachers. Professional development should help teachers to reflect on their …

Many faculty and staff in higher education have turned to digitally-enhanced professional
learning networks (PLNs) as a means for situated learning that can help them grow in their …

Set in the context of higher education, this paper focuses on professional development-
related challenges faced by teachers and specifically how these difficulties have been …

This study is an examination of the evolution of one novice's teacher's informal mentoring
network on Twitter. The study followed a novice mathematics teacher over a nine month …