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Teacher development in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Beijing for e-Learning in school education

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Teaching professionals are crucial for the successful realization of e-Learning in school education. Major Asian cities/regions such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Beijing continuously invest in teacher development on e-Learning to empower frontline teachers and school leaders to advance school education in the digital era. This article aims to review and discuss the activity contents, delivery approaches, and scaling-up methods of teacher development on e-Learning in these four major Asian cities/regions. There is a unique trend identified in each of the four major Asian cities/regions. Singapore focuses on professional peer-learning communities for supporting practice-based teacher development on the effective use of ICT for learning and teaching in the classroom. Hong Kong focuses on building teacher communities for observing, engaging, and reflecting and succeeding school-based e-Learning initiatives for student-centered learning. Taiwan focuses on offering university-supported teacher development on the effective integration of e-Learning into students’ learning, especially for learning twenty-first century skills. Beijing focuses on promoting self-directed teacher development on the advancement of ICT infusion in classroom teaching, especially the ICT-supported innovative pedagogies for K-12. Implications are drawn in order to provide a point of reference for other cities/regions in tailoring the future provision of teacher development for e-Learning in the twenty-first century.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Information Technology, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, 10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong

    Siu-Cheung Kong

  2. Learning Sciences and Technologies Academic Group & Office of Education Research, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore

    Chee-Kit Looi

  3. Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology, National Central University, No. 300, Jhongda Road, Jhongli, Taoyuan County, 32001, Taiwan

    Tak-Wai Chan

  4. School of Educational Technology, Beijing Normal University, 19 Xinjiekouwai Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100875, China

    Ronghuai Huang

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Kong, SC., Looi, CK., Chan, TW. et al. Teacher development in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Beijing for e-Learning in school education. J. Comput. Educ. 4, 5–25 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40692-016-0062-5

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