The 2011 series of country reports on ICT in education has been launched. The reports are drafted based on the information provided by Ministries of Education through an annual questionnaire. This initiative is one of the major activities undertaken by European Schoolnet to gather and analyse information on ICT in education for Ministries of Education across Europe. The main aim of the reports is to foster the active information exchange between Ministries on ICT in education-related topics of common interest. Fifteen country reports of the 2009/2010 series are already published on Insight.

This dossier addresses the crucial topic of teachers’ professional development and how social networks can support it. So called Learning networks have been discussed more frequently since the rise of social media and social web. Learning networks are technology supported communities through which learners share knowledge with each other and jointly develop new knowledge (Sloep & Berlanga, 2011). This way, learning networks enrich and compliment the experience of continuous professional development (CPD) and lifelong learning.