1.+Introduction

Introduction

As the trend has been to introduce technological components into school and universities, there has also been a trend to provide " 'episodic' models of PD (where teachers receive a crash course in the use of a particular technology or technology-enhanced instructional method)" (Morsink et al., 2011). The purpose of this WIKI Literature Review and Proposal is the address a central issue in educational technology today, which is the model of professional development that amounts to a crash course. It is the researchers' intend to incorporate a new model, one in which educators receive professional development that enables them to know how and be able to manage and integrate educational technologies into their content delivery that is pedagogically sound.

In this line of research the authors are embarking on our specific target area relates to the the incorporation of cloud technology with tablet devices. It is our collective understanding that these technologies have inherent commonalities that promote their integration into a format educators across all content areas and levels of education can find their utilization appropriate and effective. At the same time, the researchers understand that a continuation of the crash course professional development model will prove problematic and thus propose a new model be adopted, the TPACK model.

Our proposal is the further investigate the literature on professional development with a specific focus on identifying means to promote effective training of educators on tablet and cloud technologies themselves. In addition, the researchers endeavor to identify existing research that will aid in the formulation of comprehensive training for educators on how to manage the technologies within their specific content areas and educational levels with a resulting goal of assisting educators in the integration of tablet and cloud technologies into the appropriate pedagogical method for delivering the specific content.