Supporting Online Collaborative Design for Teacher Professional Development

Abstract

This paper describes a study on online collaborative design in the context of teacher professional development. 25 teachers from different Spanish universities and disciplines participated in the study. The aim was to understand how to support teachers in interuniversity teams to collaborate fully online along the learning design process of a discipline-based situation that integrates ICT, a problem scarcely tackled in the literature. The described interpretive study, using mixed methods, explores the support to online co-design provided by a novel ICT community platform named ILDE (Integrated Learning Design Environment). Lessons drawn from the results can contribute to the improvement of online collaborative design processes in the context of teacher professional development.