Issues in Online Professional Development

1. Issues in Online Professional Development Building an Online Community PD Challenges for Blended Learning

2. Professional Development Activities

3. Facilitator Training • ETLO – 1st PD for all online instructors • Components: • Facilitated course (usually six weeks before beginning employment) • Experimentation course for practice of concepts • Project based (planning template)

4. Virtual Virginia Mission Control • Content area - All reference documents, forms and how-to’s • Tricks of the Trade – A place for colleagues to seek and to offer general instructional support as well as discuss best practices for online learning • Faculty Bulletin Board - A place to share non-instructional news with colleagues • News Articles of Interest - This is a place to post news articles either in print or online that may be of interest to the online learning world • Department Forums – Science, Social Studies, English/Humanities, World Languages • Book Forum - discussions (voluntary)

6. At this point we appear to have a19th century curriculum,20th century buildings and organizationsand 21st century students facing an undefined futureBruce Wellman, MiraVia, LLC http://www.miravia.com/index.html

7. Blended Learning Blended learning is anytime a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some student control over time, place, path, and/or pace. http://www.innosightinstitute.org/innosight/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-Rise-of-K-12-Blended-Learning.pdf

8. Six Models of Integration • Face-to-face Driver Teacher driven in a f2f environment with supplemental online resources • Flex: Most of the content is online with tutoring in a f2f classroom • Rotation: Students rotate between f2f and online within the same course • Self-blend: Students are online after hours on their own initiative • Online driver: Content is online and students meet with f2f occasionally • Online lab: Students in computer lab with mentor during school day and teacher is online http://www.innosightinstitute.org/innosight/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-Rise-of-K-12-Blended-Learning.pdf

10. Blended Learning: Pros • Increased teacher effectiveness – Teachers trained in online delivery are more successful (http://www.bc.edu/research/intasc/researchprojects/eLearning/efe.shtml) • Increased content access for students – anytime, anywhere content • Increased interaction with instructor – f2f and virtually – home and school • Potential for students to work at individual pace with greater control of their own learning

11. Implementation Issues • Curriculum and resources • Tools training – teachers and students • Facilitation/support – school and home • Role of parents/guardians • Technology access – alternatives • Backup for lack of access • Pedagogical support for teachers – Initial and Ongoing • Resistance to change

12. Blended Learning Instructor Support • Blending Learning or Integrating Technology? • Designing a “new” classroom • Putting the puzzle pieces together (ie. Student, classroom, parent) • Dynamic curriculum • Rethinking traditional bricks-and-mortar policies • Automation of manual tasks (data entry) • Other

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14. Resources • http://www.marcandangel.com/2010/11/15/12-dozen-places-to-self-educate-yourself-online/ • http://www.montereyinstitute.org/nroc/ • http://www.innosightinstitute.org/innosight/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-Rise-of-K-12-Blended-Learning.pdf • http://www.inacol.org/research/promisingpractices/NACOL_PP-BlendedLearning-lr.pdf