Teacher Professional Development: Blended Learning Courses
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Abstract
The renovation program of general education require organize training courses with large numbers of teachers in the country to meet the basic requirements of innovation education. With these powerful capabilities and efficiency of the course in the model of Blended learning will save time, budget and improve the effectiveness of teacher training courses.
Blended learning model is the coordination between “face to face”teaching with the online learning model today. Blended learning is seen as a pedagogical approach, integrating the efficiency and social opportunities in the classroom with the ability to promote positive learning with the support of technology in environmental online course.
The study refers to building a model of teacher professional development courses on a cloud computing platform that will "simplify" and "technologyize" all the activities of stakeholders in the training process. The organization of these activities takes place through LMS with a large number of participants, with no restrictions on space, time, interoperability, and integration of resources support the training of teachers regularly, continuously.
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