TY - GEN
T1 - Education technology and computer sustaining professional learning communities establishment in United Arab Emirates
AU - Ahmad, Abdel Dayem M.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Professional Learning communities (PLCs) represent a fashionable topic for at least three decades now on the international education arena. This paper investigates this topic that has widely been considered on the international level, however it remained absent from the educational scene in the Arab region till now. Establishing learning communities relies heavily on education technology and availability of computers in the educational organizations. United Arab Emirates has got some trials - however immature - to practice establishing learning communities in some of its education organizations and this again is subject to the existence of education technology and computers in those organizations. In spite of this, United Arab Emirates and all Arab countries are invited through this paper to get acquainted with the features, vitality, and returns of establishing learning communities in their schools and universities.
AB - Professional Learning communities (PLCs) represent a fashionable topic for at least three decades now on the international education arena. This paper investigates this topic that has widely been considered on the international level, however it remained absent from the educational scene in the Arab region till now. Establishing learning communities relies heavily on education technology and availability of computers in the educational organizations. United Arab Emirates has got some trials - however immature - to practice establishing learning communities in some of its education organizations and this again is subject to the existence of education technology and computers in those organizations. In spite of this, United Arab Emirates and all Arab countries are invited through this paper to get acquainted with the features, vitality, and returns of establishing learning communities in their schools and universities.
KW - Education technology and computers
KW - Learning communities
KW - United Arab Emirates
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U2 - 10.1109/ICETC.2010.5529534
DO - 10.1109/ICETC.2010.5529534
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77956018314
SN - 9781424463688
T3 - ICETC 2010 - 2010 2nd International Conference on Education Technology and Computer
SP - V3329-V3332
BT - ICETC 2010 - 2010 2nd International Conference on Education Technology and Computer
T2 - 2010 2nd International Conference on Education Technology and Computer, ICETC 2010
Y2 - 22 June 2010 through 24 June 2010
ER -