Building a Research Agenda for Online Teacher Professional Development Models

尽管在开发在线专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基础模式如何通过分享设计和实施的见解来改进的研究很少。专业发展和远程/分布式学习都将受益于合作制定的研究议程，该议程对比示范项目的当前结果，从这些结果中形成集体见解，并为研究有效的在线教师专业发展(OTPD)模式的演变提出关键主题和相关方法。利用这笔赠款，哈佛大学教育研究生院(HGSE)将为示范的OTPD项目举办一次邀请性会议，以分享见解并制定这样的研究议程。HGSE将组织一次为期两天的邀请性研究会议，约有100人参加，其中包括学者、实践者、政策制定者、资助者和其他利益攸关方。组织者将选择大约十个oTPD项目来准备一份立场文件并展示他们的工作。遴选将基于以下标准：每个项目将有一个以理论和研究、研究或评价结果为基础的设计和模式，以及一个可伸缩性和可持续性计划；整套项目将涵盖一系列TPD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.