Implementation of the EdTech Leaders Online (ETLO) Program for Milwaukee Public School District
Laura M. O'Dwyer (November 2005)
http://www.edtechleaders.org/research/articles/ETLO_Milwaukee.doc (full report)
Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) has participated in Education Development Center's ETLO program since fall 2002. Through Milwaukee's participation in this program, over 40 MPS staff members have been trained as online specialists. Beginning in 2003, the trained online specialists began delivering ETLO's online workshops for MPS teachers and administrators. To date, approximately 140 online workshops have been delivered. The MPS/ETLO program is ongoing and continues to expand, with additional workshops conducted during the 2004 - 2005 school year. Since fall 2002, over 1000 MPS teachers have already been impacted by the online workshops delivered by MPS facilitators.
As part of the ETLO program, pre- and post-training survey data were collected from the facilitators trained in each cohort and from the teachers and administrators who enrolled in the online workshops these facilitators delivered. The surveys gathered both quantitative responses as well as narratives provided in response to open-ended prompts. As part of this evaluation, the aggregate quantitative survey responses and the open-ended narratives were examined to identify patterns in the data across the pre- and post-surveys for all of the facilitator training courses and the teacher workshops . Above is a summary of the findings from each data source for both facilitator course participants and workshop participants.
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Meeting the Need for High Quality Teachers: e-Learning Solutions
Glenn Kleiman, 2004
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/os/technology/plan/2004/site/documents/Kleiman-MeetingtheNeed.pdf
In this white paper prepared for the 2004 U.S. Department of Education Leadership Summit, Glenn Kleiman, EDC Vice President and Director of COPE, discusses ways that e-learning approaches could be used to help meet the teacher quality requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. He presents principles of effective professional development and discusses some of the ways e-learning can serve as a component of a successful program. He also goes on to look at the characteristics of a number of innovative e-learning programs for educators - along with some of the challenges raised by e-learning approaches.
Successful Online Professional Development
Barbara Treacy, Glenn Kleiman, and Kirsten Peterson (September 2002)
http://www.edtechleaders.org/research/articles/SuccessfulOPD.pdf
This article presents an overview of the key lessons learned in the EdTech Leaders Online (ETLO) program about how online learning can build capacity for technology integration and help school districts, state departments of education, regional service providers, and teacher training programs meet the challenge of providing effective professional development for teachers and administrators. It includes a description of the learning community approach to online professional development and important lessons learned through the implementation of this approach in school districts throughout the country. One central message is that online professional development is most effective when it is integrated with face-to-face activities in a multi-faceted, ongoing, professional development program.
EdTech GEAR: Online Professional Development
Generating Equal Access to Remote Areas in Tennessee: A case study
2004
http://www.edtechleaders.org/research/articles/gear.asp
This case study provides an overview to the how the EdTech Leaders Online model was implemented in the state of Tennessee through a competitive state-wide edtech grant. Through this grant, rural school districts were able to access online professional development training to meet their teacher quality needs.
Myths and Realities about Technology in K–12 Schools
Glenn Kleiman (April–June 2000)
http://www.edtechleaders.org/research/articles/myths.asp
This article, from The Digital Classroom: How Technology is Changing the Way We Teach and Learn (Harvard Education Letter, 2000), summarizes five common misconceptions about technology to enhance teaching and learning, and the corresponding "reality" for each one.