Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers: Potential Uses of Information Technology -- A Conference to be held in Sacramento, California, September 28-30, 2006

这是一个会议的补助金，包括检查当前的研究基础上的使用和在线信息技术（OLIT）的潜力，以加强和改变专业发展（PD）的方式提供给K-12年级的教师的活动。 本次会议的计划将主要由K-12课堂教师专家组织和执行，他们是国家科学院和加州教师咨询委员会的成员。 会议将强调OLIT对PD的使用和影响的研究文献的现状。 会议还将探讨各种信息技术在PD中的当前应用，新兴技术不仅重组而且转变PD机会的潜力，以及在使用信息技术实现这些目的方面仍然存在的挑战。 所考虑的问题包括以下主题：1）理解和评估在线PD的证据基础，2）在线PD的现状，3）评估在线PD的有效性，4）在线PD的收益，成本和经济性，以及5）在线PD的未来。 本次会议的与会者包括课堂教师，在线PD的研究人员，负责实施PD的学校人员，州立法者和CA众议院和参议院教育委员会的工作人员以及负责开发和营销硬件和软件的信息技术界代表。 会议产生的主要思想将总结在一份由NRC规划委员会撰写的NRC报告中，并通过国家科学院出版社提供。

This is a grant for a conference and encompassing events examining the current research base on the uses of and potential for on-line information technology (OLIT) to enhance and change the ways professional development (PD) is provided to teachers in Grades K-12. The planning for this conference will be largely organized and executed by expert K-12 classroom teachers who are members of the National Academies and California Teacher Advisory Councils. The conference will emphasize the current status of the research literature on uses and influences of OLIT on PD. The conference also will explore current applications of various kinds of information technologies in PD, the potential for emerging technologies to not only restructure but transform PD opportunities, and challenges that remain in using information technologies for these purposes. The issues considered include the following topics: 1) the evidentiary base for understanding and evaluating on-line PD, 2) the current state of on-line PD, 3) assessing the effectiveness of on-line PD, 4) the benefits, costs and economics of on-line PD, and 5) the future of on-line PD. Participants in this conference include classroom teachers, researchers of online PD, school personnel responsible for implementing PD, state legislators and staff from CA House and Senate education committees and representatives from the information technology community who are responsible for developing and marketing hardware and software. The major ideas emanating from the conference will be summarized in an NRC report authored by the NRC planning committee and made available through the National Academies Press.