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How can professional development for teachers be more efficient and effective? This essential question lies at the heart of this timely and useful book. In an era marked by a heightened emphasis on school reform, the education and professional development of teachers is widely regarded as the keystone to educational improvement. Recently a bewildering array of online professional development programs has arisen. But how effective are these programs and how do they compare with one another? Inspired by a recent conference on usable knowledge at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, this book offers clear and practical answers to these and other questions about online professional development. The authors look closely at exemplary online programs, compare them carefully with one another, and draw helpful conclusions about themâboth for those who develop online programs, and for teachers and administrators in search of professional development programs that make a difference.
Issues and Trends; Charalambos Vrasidas & Gene V Glass.
Chapter 1. Online Conferences for Professional Development; Terry Anderson and Jo-An Christiansen.
Chapter 2. Developing Teacher Knowledge and Pedagogy in a Large-Scale Electronic Conference Environment; Jenny Leach, Bob McCormick, Bob Moon, & David Harrison.
Chapter 3. A Computer-Mediated Community of Learners in Teacher Education; Carol Greene and Susan Magliaro.
Chapter 4. Faculty Incentives and Development for Online Learning; Susan Haag, Leah Folkestad, and Suzanne Dietrich.
Chapter 5. Science Inquiry in the Online Environment; Wynne Harlen and Susan Doubler.
Chapter 6. Emerging and Experienced Professional Selves in Cyber Discourse; Irit Kupferberg and Miriam Ben Peretz.
Chapter 7. The MEPP Faculty Experience; Greg Kearsley.
Chapter 8. Using Web-Based Pedagogical Tools to Support Student Self-Regulation; Anastasia Kitsantas and Nada Dabbagh.
Chapter 9. Technology Enhancements Across Cultures in Higher Education; Madeline Burgess, Jan Currie, and Dorit Maor.
Chapter 10. Online Professional Development of Teachers through the Schools Around the World (SAW) Program; May-Hung Cheng, Carol Stoel, and Erma Anderson.
Chapter 11. Preparing Teachers for e-Teaching via e-Learning; Michal Zellermayer, Nili Mor, and Ida Heilweil.
Chapter 12. Opportunities with e-Learning: Changing Teachers' Pedagogies; Dorit Maor.
Chapter 13. Applying Progressive Educational Principles Online; Carla Payne.
Chapter 14. A Pioneers' View on Teachers' Professional Development; Sanne Akkerman, Ineke Lam, and Wilfried Admiraal.
Chapter 15. A Peer-Learning Community Model for Professional Development; Xun Ge and Scot McAdoo.
Chapter 16. Shifting the Teaching Paradigm; Rigmor George, Denise Wood, and Dale Wache.
Chapter 17. Understanding Cognitive Transactions in Teaching and Learning within Virtual Communities; Neil Schwartz and Maria Beatrice Ligorio.
Chapter 18. Developing Online Teacher Video Cases for Learning Technology Integration; Wilhelmina Savenye, Thomas Brush, James Middleton, Ann Igoe, & Terri Kurz.