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Lisa Dawley, Ph.D.Professor and Chair
Kerry Rice, Ed.D.Assistant Professor and Associate Chair
Going Virtual! 2010The Status of Professional Development and Unique Needs of K-12 Online Teachers
http://ow.ly/3aHwu
Going Virtual! Research Series
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Demographics
• Teachers highly experienced– 99% credentialed– 60% Master’s degree+
• 12% of new online teachers have never taught f-2-f
• Boundaries are blurring
PD in Online Instruction
• 25% of brand new online teachers received no training
• Most common type:– ongoing training (81%)– workshops (77%)
• Who provides?– workplace (94%)– university (30%)
• University training– 43% of teachers with
6+ years experience– 12% of brand new
teachers
Preferred PD
• #1 Fully online facilitated (53%)
• #2 Workshops (49%)
• Grad courses appeal to teachers with 0-10 years experience (30-39%)
• Grad courses least appeal to teachers with 10+ years experience (56%).
Personal Learning Networks
• #1 Facebook for personal learning (n=29)• 52% received training in use of social networks
for PD• 25% want additional training in the use of
social networks to support personal learning
Favorite learning network?
Comments?
Topics Covered in PD
Highest rated, current:• 93% LMS training• 90% Communication
technologies• 86% field of online
teaching
Highest rated, needed:• Foundations: Psychology
of online learning, 44%• Facilitation: Meeting
needs of students with disabilities, 64%
• Design: Design tools, 40%• Design: Instructional
design, 43%
Foundations
Facilitation Strategies
TechnologyTools
Online Design
Etiquette, Behavior & Assessment
Comments on training topics?
Training Needs
• Brand new online teachers– Working with students with disabilities in the
online classroom (57%) – Managing groups and online collaboration (52%)– Instructional design of online learning (53%)
Training Needs
• 1-5 Years Online Teaching Experience– The area of design, including instructional design
principles (46%) – Design tools (41%) – Design of syllabi (38%)
Training Needs
• 6+ Years of Online Teaching Experience– Psychology of online learning (41%) – Promoting student autonomy (35%) – Student readiness (34%)
Research Issues
• Perceived researcher conflict of interest – scoping out market opportunities
“This survey was annoying--long, unnecessarily vague, complicated and obviously self-serving.”
• Online teachers are tired of being surveyed?• Using data mining to support effectiveness
measures
Program Evaluation
Pass Rate Predictive Model
• Decision Tree Analysis– Improved grades (from 88% to 92%) when participants’
logged into LMS more than 10 times over six weeks. The average is further improved to 98% when frequency of logins increased to 17 times.
Engagement
• Clustering– More time spent online = more time spent offline.– Previous online teaching experience = more hours spent
both online and offline.
TeacherStream
Comments?