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The advance in technologies has broken down
geographical and time boundaries, and made
it possible for connectivity and access anytime,
anywhere. It has become a world trend that
more and more professional learning, sharing
and exchange is undertaken online. Ontario
and Victoria provide two successful examples of
overseas practice, whereby online professional
development platforms enable teachers and
school leaders to access up-to-date professional
development information and resources, and share
professional insights with counterparts across the
territory.
In Hong Kong, the EDB’s Training Calendar
System (TCS) has facilitated teachers and school
leaders in enrolment into CPD programmes and
activities offered by the Government. Local tertiary
institutions and educational bodies separately
disseminate information on their programmes via
the internet. COTAP considers that there is scope
to make better use of current technologies to
further facilitate the teaching profession’s learning
and development.
COTAP proposes to develop a one-stop portal, an
e-platform named T-surf24/7, to enable the teaching
profession to have easy access to information on
various professional development programmes
offered by the EDB, tertiary institutions and other
educational bodies. There would also be access
to various e-learning resources and repositories
for self-paced learning, and supporting tools for
CPD planning and evaluation at individual, subject
panel, functional committee and school levels.
The one-stop portal of T-surf24/7 will involve large-
scale collation of the information and resources
relating to professional development provided by
various parties including the EDB, tertiary institutions
and other educational bodies. It will be developed
and enhanced incrementally in phases. Specific
professional development needs of teachers and
school leaders, and the views from the school sector
on their preferred web information, resources and
services would help shape the planning and design
of the overall infrastructure of T-surf24/7.
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