This study investigates how final year pre-service teachers (PSTs) from several countries use social media to support their online professional learning network (PLN) activities. Adopting a mixed-methods approach, it uses a global survey and interview methods to generate fresh insights into PSTs’ informally-developed online PLN practices and their perceived benefits of these self-initiated activities. Findings uncover new understandings of contemporary PSTs’ patterns of use and configurations of their online PLNs and have implications for their effective transitioning into the teaching profession.

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调查职前教师非正式开发的在线专业学习网络

这项研究调查了来自多个国家的最后一年的职前教师（PST）如何使用社交媒体来支持他们的在线专业学习网络（PLN）活动。它采用混合方法，使用了一种全球调查和访谈方法，以对PST的非正式开发的在线PLN做法及其从这些自我发起的活动中获得的收益产生新的见解。调查结果揭示了对当代PST使用和配置其在线PLN的方式的新理解，并对其有效过渡到教学行业产生了影响。