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Online Professional Development for Exploring Computer Science

探索计算机科学的在线专业发展

基本信息

批准号：
1640117
负责人：
Joyce Malyn-Smith
金额：
$ 99.89万
依托单位：
Education Development Center
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2016-10-01 至 2022-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1640117&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Online Professional Development Exploring Computer

项目摘要

The Education Development Center proposes a project to develop online professional development (PD) workshops that will prepare a larger and more diverse group of high school teachers to implement the successful Exploring Computer Science (ECS) curriculum, thereby making ECS accessible to a larger and more diverse group of students. Currently ECS PD requires a week of face-to-face training in each of two consecutive summers, in addition, it requires four quarterly in-person ECS workshops during the academic year. Many teachers, particularly those in rural areas, are not able to attend those workshops. This project--ECS PD Online--will provide a much-needed alternative to these four quarterly in-person meetings, leveraging the power of the online environment to create rich learning experiences that are closely aligned with the ECS pedagogical approach and commitment to broadening participation in CS, while providing additional flexibility regarding when and how teachers take part in training.To ensure that ECS teachers across the nation have access to ongoing professional development during their first year of teaching ECS the project will (1) build and test three asynchronous online PD versions of the quarterly in-person workshops (a fourth having been built under previous funding); (2) develop and pilot additional online activities/resources focused on ECS technical content; (3) develop and test an ECS Online Facilitator training course and system; (4) conduct research in order to understand the promise of effectiveness of online PD for supporting ECS teacher learning; and (5) embed ECS PD Online into the portfolio of ongoing ECS professional development services available to teachers nationwide. The project work is grounded in research in the field of ECS learning, and effective curriculum development, as well as in essential design considerations for online professional development. Recognized experts in the field will provide the project team with frequent and ongoing feedback on research, products, and processes to ensure that the project's goals and objectives are achieved.

教育发展中心提出了一个项目，开发在线专业发展（PD）研讨会，将准备一个更大，更多样化的高中教师群体，实施成功的探索计算机科学（ECS）课程，从而使ECS访问更大，更多样化的学生群体。目前，ECS PD需要在连续两个夏天的每一个面对面的培训一周，此外，它需要在学年四个季度的亲自ECS研讨会。许多教师，特别是农村地区的教师，无法参加这些讲习班。这个项目-ECS PD Online-将为这四个季度的面对面会议提供一个急需的替代方案，利用在线环境的力量创造丰富的学习经验，这些经验与ECS的教学方法和扩大CS参与的承诺密切相关，同时在教师何时以及如何参加培训方面提供额外的灵活性。为了确保全国的ECS教师能够获得持续的专业发展，在他们的第一年教学ECS的项目将（1）建立和测试三个异步在线PD版本的季度现场研讨会（第四个项目是在以前的供资下建立的）;（2）开发和试行更多的在线活动/资源，重点是环境通信系统的技术内容;（3）开发和测试环境通信系统在线主持人培训课程和系统;（4）进行研究，以了解在线PD支持ECS教师学习的有效性的承诺;和（5）嵌入ECS PD在线到正在进行的ECS专业发展服务的组合提供给全国教师。该项目的工作是基于在ECS学习领域的研究，有效的课程开发，以及在线专业发展的基本设计考虑。该领域公认的专家将为项目团队提供关于研究，产品和流程的频繁和持续的反馈，以确保实现项目的目标和目的。