Sustaining Teacher´s Professional Development and Training through Web-Based Communities of Practice

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of Web-based community of practice in teacherpsilas professional development. The focus is on e-portfolio assisted mentoring for professional development in a Web-based community of practice. The design and structure of a community of practice is presented with the study of impact on competence development. The focus of survey was to establish, how pedagogic workers assess the participation in a Web-based community of practice on the development of their personal competences. The paper finds that the participation in a Web-based community had important influence on teacherpsilas competence development.