Towards an understanding of the learning processes that occur in synchronous online seminars for the professional development of experienced educators

摘要

This paper defines a model of the learning processes that occur during online courses and web conferences, focusing on synchronous communications, which involve the teacher and students interacting at the same time. The substantial state-of-the-art section provides useful information that allows the reader to easily grasp the objectives and context of the paper. The authors apply a rather standard methodology that takes recordings of e-leaming sessions and online seminars as input, and analyzes those recordings both quantitatively and qualitatively to derive a model. The methodology is described and applied in a consistent way.