Telecommunications and an alternative practicum model: Collaborative entrepreneurship in teacher education
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Campbell, K., Jamieson, S., Mappin, D., & Olson, A. (1995). Telecommunications and an alternative practicum model: Collaborative entrepreneurship in teacher education. Journal of Information Technology for Teacher Education, 4(3), 289-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/0962029950040303
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As in many schools of education, the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta has initiated a number of collaborative projects with partnership schools in an attempt to remove the gap between the traditional, university‐based component of practicum courses, and the practice of the school‐based component. One model, described in this paper, uses telecommunications technology to deliver field‐based experiences. Technology‐based, inter‐institutional collaborative projects contain elements of innovation, that are usually managed with reference to change strategy processes described by Fullan (1982), Havelock (1973), Rogers (1983, 1986) ‐and others. However, these processes take time and planning and may actually mitigate against adoption and implementation of rapidly evolving technologies. In this paper, we argue that telecommunications technology‐based, collaboratively developed models of teacher education may be better served by entrepreneurial thinking than by carefully planned change strategies. One such project is described from initiation through implementation, and components of entrepreneurial partnering are suggested.
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© 1995 Journal of Information Technology for Teacher Education. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.
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