In my email today, I received this notice from a friend of mine about a call for book chapters that his colleagues were editing.  This sounds like an interesting topic and an opportunity for publishing student research in teacher education.  Here’s an excerpt from the call:

Over the past decade, teacher candidates have used the World Wide Web as a critical tool in their teaching and learning experiences. National efforts have encouraged technology integration in teacher preparation and raised expectations for frequent and successful applications with K-12 learners.  As a consequence, higher education has been providing candidates with more online educational opportunities. While online learning has become pervasive in many fields in higher education, it has been somewhat slow to catch on in teacher education, resulting in fewer opportunities for technology-mediated learning experiences in K-12 classrooms. However, for a variety of reasons (e.g., technological advances, budgeting concerns, technological expectations of candidates), teacher education programs are increasingly implementing online components. While this trend is growing, little research has empirically explored the effectiveness of online education in teacher preparation.

Objective of the Book

It is important to understand the theoretical, pedagogical, technological, financial, and logistical issues, as well as management approaches, instructional delivery options, and policy considerations needed to create quality online teacher education programs. The purpose of this book is to present information about current online practices and research in teacher education programs, while also presenting opportunities, methods, and issues involved with implementing these online and technologically innovative opportunities in teacher preparation. A final objective of this book is to present empirical evidence of teacher candidate learning and assessment in the context of various online aspects of teacher licensure.

For more information, use this link for the page for the complete call for chapters.