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(Re)thinking Teacher Training in the Digital Age: Teacher Training Models for Online Practice

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Good Practices and New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST 2024)

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In recent years, the need to train teachers to teach online has been highlighted, not only because of the exponential growth of technologies in all economic sectors of society, but also because of the very need for education to modernize and, through this, innovate in the digital sphere. The covid-19 pandemic has only demonstrated, now unequivocally, the urgency of teacher training in the field of online teaching, as well as the need for instructional design and evaluation of training models to support learning. It is precisely because of these two assumptions that there is an urgent need to develop research in the area that allows us to (re)think teacher training in the digital age so that teachers can participate in training actions and, through them, acquire fundamental skills for the realization of online teaching. In this sense, through a systematic review of the literature, we sought to identify and characterize training models geared towards teaching practice in online education. In this way, it may be possible to contribute to the development of a matrix for the instructional design of a teacher training model that prepares these professionals for online education. The results show that, although the literature has made an indispensable contribution to reflection on teacher training models, we recognize that more research is needed in the area, since the literature is deficient in terms of the subject under analysis.

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This work has been supported by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UIDB/05777/2020.

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    Bruno F. Gonçalves & Vítor Gonçalves

  2. Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the 20th Century, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Piedade Vaz-Rebelo & Maria Teresa R. Pessôa

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  2. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

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  3. Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

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Gonçalves, B.F., Vaz-Rebelo, P., Pessôa, M.T.R., Gonçalves, V. (2024). (Re)thinking Teacher Training in the Digital Age: Teacher Training Models for Online Practice. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F., Poniszewska-Marańda, A. (eds) Good Practices and New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 988. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60224-5_12

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