Building a Research Agenda for Online Teacher Professional Development Models

尽管在开发在线职业发展方面进行了持续的投资，但关于这些计划的有效性或如何通过分享设计和实施的见解来改进底层模型的研究却很少。专业发展和远程/分布式学习都将受益于合作开发的研究议程，该议程对比了示范性项目的当前发现，从这些结果中建立集体见解，并提出了研究有效在线教师专业发展（oTPD）模型演变的关键主题和相关方法。有了这笔拨款，哈佛大学教育研究生院（HGSE）将为oTPD示范项目举办一次邀请会议，以分享见解并制定这样的研究议程。HGSE将组织为期两天的邀请研究会议，约有100名与会者，包括学者，从业者，政策制定者，资助者和其他利益相关者。组织者将选择大约10个oTPD项目来准备立场文件并介绍他们的工作。每个项目将有一个基于理论和研究、研究或评估结果的设计和模型，以及可扩展性和可持续性的计划；这套项目将涵盖一系列oTPD内容、一系列受众和一系列教学方法。

In spite of an ongoing investment in developing online professional development, scant research is available on the effectiveness of these programs or how the underlying models could improve through sharing insights about design and implementation. Both professional development and distance/distributed learning would benefit from a collaboratively developed research agenda that contrasts current findings from exemplary projects, builds collective insights from these results, and proposes key themes and related methodologies for studying the evolution of effective online Teacher Professional Development (oTPD) models. With this grant, the Harvard's Graduate School of Education (HGSE) will host an invitational conference for exemplary oTPD projects to share insights and to develop such a research agenda. HGSE will organize a two-day, invitational research conferences of about one hundred participants, including scholars, practitioners, policymakers, funders and other stakeholders. The organizers will select roughly ten oTPD projects to prepare a position paper and present their work. The selection will be based on the following criteria: Each project will have a design and model based on theory and research, research or evaluation results, and a plan for scalability and sustainability; The suite of projects will span a range of oTPD content, a range of audiences and a range of pedagogies.