Internet and Teacher Education

The latest issue of “Internet and Higher Education” was published. This is a Special Issue on “The Internet and Teacher Education: An Asian Experience”. Titles of some papers in this issue are:

The Internet and teacher education: Traversing between the digitized world and schools,

Exploring freshmen pre-service teachers' situated knowledge in reflective reports during case-based activities,

Using wikis to develop student teachers' learning, teaching, and assessment,

The integration of synchronous communication technology into service learning for pre-service teachers' online tutoring of middle school students,

Virtual environments and the ongoing work of becoming a Singapore teacher,

Promoting awareness of Internet safety in Taiwan in-service teacher education: A ten-year experience,

The correlates of Taiwan teachers' epistemological beliefs concerning Internet environments, online search strategies, and search outcomes.

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