Educating literacy teachers online: Tools, techniques, and transformations

ISBN 978-0-8077-5496-2 (pbk); ISBN 978-0-8077-7249-2 (eBook) Laouali Malam Moussa1 Published online: 5 February 2016 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht and UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning 2016 This book by Lane Clarke and Susan Watts-Taffe is a very strong testimony from eld actors engaged in promoting new information and communication technologies for the betterment of educational practice. [...]they are using technology to help them offer more learning opportunities to students who are expected to be in control under the guidance of the facilitator who sets the objectives and selects the appropriate technology from a wide range of possible choices. Chapter 5 deals with how online teaching affects course content and the choice of pedagogy in the American context with regard to standards dened by policy makers and other competent technical bodies (such as the Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium, the National Council for Accreditation in Teacher Education, etc.) but also some international entities, such as the International Reading Association and the International Society for Technology in Education.