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Title: Capacity Building Online Professional Development


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Capacity Building Online Professional Development
  • Barbara Treacy
  • Education Development Center
  • March 3, 2004

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About EdTech Leaders Online (ETLO)
  • Based in the Center for Online Professional
    Education at Education Development Center (EDC)
  • EDC Non-profit organization founded in 1958 -
    over 600 employees
  • ETLO Origins Harvard/EDC Leadership and New
    Technologies Institutes
  • Fall 2000 ETLO launched with 14 teams and
    support of ATT
  • March 2004 27 states 800 online facilitators
    and designers trained over 10,000 online
    workshop participants

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EdTech Leaders Online Programs
  • Goal Build organizational capacity to use online
    learning to address teacher professional
    development and student learning in core content
    areas
  • Two key programs
  • Facilitating and Implementing OPD
  • Designing and Developing Online Courses
  • Semester-long online training
  • 22 online workshops project-based,
    subject/grade-level specific
  • Ongoing planning and implementation support
  • National forum for online instructors and
    designers
  • Graduate Credit through Antioch University
  • Virtual Schools programs

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EdTech Leaders Online Workshops
  • Workshops for Teachers of All Grade Levels and
    Content Areas
  • Finding the Best Educational Resources on the Web
  • Approaches and Tools for Developing Web-enhanced
    Lessons
  • Using Technology to Support Research and
    Presentation
  • Special Students in Regular Classrooms (with
    CAST)
  • Transforming the Classroom with Project-Based
    Learning
  • Designing a Virtual Tour
  • Using Hand-Held Computers in the Classroom
  • Classroom Assessment Enhanced by Technology
  • Differentiating Instruction
  • Workshops for Elementary Teachers
  • Using New Technologies to Support Literacy in
    Upper Elementary Classrooms
  • Using New Technologies to Support Literacy in
    Primary-level Classrooms
  • Reading First Supporting Early Reading
    Instruction with Technology
  • Using Technology in the Elementary Math Classroom

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EdTech Leaders Online Workshops, contd
  • Workshops for Middle School and High School
    Teachers
  • Using Technology to Support the Writing Process
  • Technology Tools to Support Inquiry in the
    Science Classroom
  • Using Technology in the Social Studies Classroom
  • Using Technology to Model and Analyze Real Data
    in the Math Classroom
  • Getting Ready for Algebra with Virtual
    Manipulatives
  • Workshops for School and District Leaders
  • Special Students in Regular Classrooms
    Technology, Teaching and Universal Design for
    Administrators
  • Planning for Curriculum Integration of Technology
  • Safeguarding the Wired Schoolhouse
  • Smart Budgeting for Technology An Introduction
    to TCO
  • Data-Based School Reform

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Online Professional Development Model Some
lessons
  • OPD incorporates basic principles of effective PD
  • Content and pedagogy leads technology follows
  • Focused on classroom practice
  • Capacity-building, team approach collaborative
    relationships can be formed online
  • Learning community model enables engaged,
    reflective discussions
  • Complements and extends other PD activities -
    doesnt replace
  • OPD is ongoing and enables follow-up
  • Flexible programs can adapt to local needs
  • Specific techniques and approaches are needed for
    effective online teaching and course design

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Sample EDC Research Results
  • 4 ETLO Teams Louisiana, Los Angeles,
    Massachusetts, Maine
  • 120 participants surveyed Pre-K to 12 teachers
  • 92 said they benefited from and enjoyed learning
    online and would be interested in online learning
    in the future
  • 91 increased collaboration with colleagues
  • 84 increased knowledge of inquiry- or
    project-based lessons
  • 91 increased understanding of technologys
    ability to support curriculum
  • 82 increased knowledge of content
  • 66 implemented classroom project based on course

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Thank you!
  • Barbara Treacy
  • btreacy_at_edc.org
  • EdTech Leaders Online
  • http//www.edtechleaders.org
  • Education Development Center
  • http//www.edc.org
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