EDC Center for Online Professional Education
Glenn Kleiman, Terry Dash, Denise Ethier, Kirsten Johnson, Susan Metrick, and Barbara Treacy*
© Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), 2000
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
3.1 Principles of Effective Professional Development
3.2 Different Types of Online Professional Development (OPD)
3.3 Potential Advantages of the Learning Community Approach to OPD
3.4 Integrating OPD Workshops into an Overall Professional Development Program
4. The Structure of an EDC-COPE Online Workshop
5.1 The Online Medium's Effect on Partcipation
5.2 Workshop Elements And Facilitation Strategies Designed to Promote Interaction
6. Strategies for Effective Online Professional Development
6.1 Guidelines for Effective OPD Workshop Design
7. Online Learning Software Environments
7.1 The Importance of Effective Software Environments
8. Conclusion
Please note that the Appendices are not included in this file, but are available upon request to jcallahan@edc.org.
This report incorporates ideas and suggestions from a number of colleagues who contributed to the online professional development workshops and research that form the basis of this report, including Libby Black (Boulder Valley, CO school district), Chris Dede (George Mason University), Alan Epstein (Watertown, MA school district), Amy Bruckman (Georgia Institute of Technology), Rob Ramsdell (FreshPond Education), Judi Fusco (SRI International), Leinda Peterman, Merrick Lofton and Paula Paul (Concordia and Catahoula Parishes, LA), Noa Piper (Whitman College, EDC Intern), and Kristen Bjork, Lynda Bussgang, Bob Spielvogel, and Judy Zorfass (EDC). In addition, we would like to thank all of the guest facilitators and workshop participants, all of whom have taught us so much from their experiences exploring online professional development.
The preparation of this paper was supported by a grant from
the U.S. Department of Education for the NetTech (Northeast Technology in Education
Consortium) project.