Development and evaluation of an Online Community Platform for Teacher Professional Knowledge Sharing and Creation

• Main Authors: Pei-Chi Chou, 周珮琪
• Other Authors: Ying-Tien Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gr99se

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 網路學習科技研究所 === 105 === Teacher professional development communities where teachers can collaborate with each other within or cross schools have been highlighted and promoted by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan in recent years. With the advent of online technology, online communities may serve as effective platforms. However, there were only few online platforms focusing on the sharing of teachers’ knowledge and making teaching plans individually. To address this issue, by integrating the concept of knowledge management (KM) and providing individual and community knowledge management tools, an online community platform for teacher professional knowledge sharing and creation (Also known as We Are Community, WeRCom) where teachers can share and create knowledge collaboratively was developed and evaluated in this study. A total of 50 volunteer Taiwanese teachers from different education levels (elementary to university) participated in the platform evaluations of WeRCom. The responses on the quantitative questionnaire designed for the platform evaluation in this study showed that they expressed satisfactory perceived usefulness and the ease of the WeRCom. They expressed high willingness to the use of WeRCom for teacher professional knowledge sharing and creation. Some suggestions and implications for teacher professional development, platform design, and future work are also discussed.