Potential of Collaborative Professional Learning mediated by ICT

The Covid-19 socio-sanitary crisis represented a great challenge at a political, social, economic level and, above all, in education. However, initiatives and proposals for educational innovation continued within the framework of professional collaboration between educational agents. Therefore, this study aims to carry out a descriptive and purposeful analysis of the potential of Collaborative Professional Learning (APC) mediated by ICT during the pandemic. For this, qualitative research was carried out through a semi-structured interview with eight international experts in education, which was processed through the Atlas. Ti software version 7.5 in Spanish and subjected to a thematic content analysis. The results revealed three emerging categories: educational research based on intergenerational, intercultural and interdisciplinary collaboration; intra- and inter-institutional community resilience; and social-emotional development needs for effective online collaboration. The importance of ICT-mediated Collaborative Professional Learning is concluded as a sustainable and dynamic strategy for educational innovation, since it fosters the investigative, resilience and socio-emotional skills of the teacher to learn to be, learn to live together and learn to transform into complex scenarios as emergency remote education has been.