The Last Mile: Linking K-12 Educators with Cyber-enabled Learning Environments

该项目建立在Recker博士过去在将技术整合到教师教学发展领域的工作基础上。该项目使用基于网络的教师创作工具教学架构师（IA）和以技术为导向的教师专业发展模型DLConnect。这些工具共同帮助K-12教师利用国家科学数字图书馆（NSDL）和网络上的在线学习资源为学生创建课堂活动。当前的项目大幅修订了IA工具，并增强了DLConnect教师专业发展（TPD）模型，以帮助教师将NSDL资源与有效的、以探究为导向的教学实践相结合。一项严谨的研究计划检验和评估了这种模式对教师和学生的知识、态度和对以技术为导向的教学行为的影响。定量和定性研究方法用于评估和评价研究成果。定量方法使用准实验研究来比较以探究为导向的TPD与现有的以技术为导向的TPD模型。定性方法使用深入的案例研究来帮助解释结果。该项目支持教师跨越在线资源生产者和使用这些资源的教师之间的“最后一英里”。

This project builds on Dr. Recker's past work in the area of enhancing technology integration into instructional development for teachers. The project uses the web-based teacher authoring tool, Instructional Architect (IA) and a technology-oriented teacher professional development model, called DLConnect. Together, these help K-12 teachers in creating classroom activities for their students using online learning resources found in the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and on the web. The current project substantially revises the IA tool and enhances the DLConnect teacher professional development (TPD) model to help teachers integrate NSDL resources with effective, inquiry-oriented pedagogical practices. A rigorous research program examines and evaluates the impact of this model on teachers' and their students' knowledge, attitudes, and behavior toward technology-oriented instruction. Quantitative and qualitative research methods are used to assess and evaluate research outcomes. Quantitative methods use quasi-experimental studies to compare the inquiry-oriented TPD with the existing, technology-oriented TPD model. Qualitative methods use in-depth case studies to help explain results. This project supports teachers in crossing the 'last mile' between producers of online resources and the teachers who use them.