Teacher Online Learning Community is a technology-based learning community that aims at knowledge sharing, sense making, and the improvement of teachers’ professional skills and emotional interaction. Through the analysis of challenges faced by foreign language teaching in higher education, demands on innovative development of college EFL teachers in the new era, as well as main factors affecting their innovation skills, this paper discusses on strategies to improve the innovation skills of college EFL teachers driven by the online learning community. This study hopes to provide some insights for promoting the professional development of college EFL teachers as well as cultivating high-quality and innovative teachers in the future.
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Chen, Y. (2023). Study on Strategies to Improve the Innovation Skills of College EFL Teachers under the Model of Online Learning Community. Open Access Library Journal, 10, e201. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1110201.
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