National Educational Telecommunications Association Annual Meeting Henderson, Nevada Jan. 12, 2010

1. National Educational Telecommunications Association Annual Meeting Henderson, Nevada Jan. 12, 2010

2. Unique collaborative effort of PTV/SDE Goal: Sustainable, collaborative state system of high quality OPD Improve teacher content knowledge, practice & student performance Innovation & Technology for 21st century skills eFE STATES

3. Freely shared resources among partners (100+ courses) Aligned with state PD needs & state/national standards Maximizes public investments Facilitated online courses created by/for educators Informed by continual evaluation & research Innovations

4. Transformations • A model for curriculum planning & revision! • A triad of T&L resources: curriculum, PD, classroom media • PTV’s increased credentials for ed. staff • Streamlined methods of production

5. Benefits • $1.28 Million to 8 PTVs in FY 09 • Builds/extends on extensive partnerships for future work; new constituencies/relevance • Taps PTV expertise in developing web accessible digital media aligned with PD, curriculum; new uses for existing locally-owned PTV content • Renewed & refined educational mission for both PTV & SDE

6. Capacity Building Training and Partnerships • Cornerstone of success and sustainability • Multi-level partnerships:in-state and cross-state • Multi-faceted training: preparing online learning leaders, instructors and developers • Multi-level capacity building: national, state, teacher • Multi-year focus: ongoing from program inception

7. Multi-Level Partnerships • PTV / State partnership foundation of entire program • In-state leadership teams • PTV/State partners core of state leadership team • Collaborative decision making • Collaborative training and development • Important new partnerships within partner Agencies • Cross-state collaboration • Course sharing and adaptation • Regular sharing of resources, lessons and plans

8. Multi-faceted Training • Online Instructor Training • Educators from each state prepared to teach online in intensive graduate level online program • Participants recruited from PTV, DoE, Districts • Online Developer Training • Educators from each state prepared to develop online in intensive graduate level online program • Development teams include PTV/State/District partners • Online Leadership Development • State leadership teams engage in week-long retreat for training and planning each year

9. Multi-level capacity building • National • Developed a new model for collaboration and sharing which keeps costs low and benefits high • State • Established policies, procedures and infrastructure • Created expanding group of stakeholders • Built strong and growing teacher base • Teachers • Providing access to high quality, effective, ongoing PD that meets their needs

10. Five Focus Areas of the Evaluation • Implementation • Teacher Impacts • Student Impacts • Capacity Building • Sustainability

11. Implementation of the eFE Initiative Across all 8 states: • 1536 workshops delivered • Over 90 workshop titles offered • 21,628 participants completed workshops • 12,780 participants completed both pre and post evaluation surveys

12. Profile of the Participants N = 12,780 By Gender, Age & Ethnicity By Qualifications, Experience & Title 1 Status

13. Participants’ Workshop SatisfactionOrganization of eFE Courses N = 12,780

14. Participant Satisfaction:Comparisons with other OPD Programs Likelihood of taking another OPD course • eFE satisfaction data largely comparable to other OPD programs • Eleven comparisons yielded no differences • Two differences favoring eFE (right) • One difference favoring another OPD program (right) The website was user-friendly Addressed areas of curricular/pedagogical need

15. Significantly higher content knowledge on the post and follow-up survey F (1, 1701) = 914.81, p < .001, ηp2 = .48 (moderate effect) Stability of Perceived Content Knowledge

17. Capacity Building Across all 8 states: • More than 480 workshop facilitators trained • More than 278 course developers trained • More than 110 workshops developed • 2 new states added to the initiative • Development of local evaluation

18. Specific Sustainability Strategies Partnerships with public television stations help to: • Provide video content for courses • Market the eFE program within individual states (planning, create spots) • Recruit teacher participants (strategies) • Recommend people for training (facilitators, course developers)

19. Partnerships Public television stations Departments of Education Local universities Funding Partnerships Alternate grant funds Course fees Marketing Broadcast media Websites Conference presentations Promotional literature Overall Sustainability Efforts • Cross State Collaboration • Workshop sharing • Ideas & Strategies

20. Additional Information For additional information about eLearning for Educators, contact: Lynne Meekslmeeks@aptv.org Alabama Public Television Barbara Treacybtreacy@edc.org Education Development Center Kara Smithkarasmith731@gmail.com Boston College