EdTech Leaders Online: Building Capacity with Online Professional Development

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EdTech Leaders Online Building Capacity with
Online Professional Development

• Barbara Treacy

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About EdTech Leaders Online (ETLO)

• Goal Build organizational capacity to use online
  learning
• Based in the Center for Online Professional
  Education at EDC
• EDC Non-profit organization founded in 1958 -
  over 600 employees
• ETLO Origins
• Harvard/EDC Leadership and New Technologies
  Institutes
• Research with several urban rural districts
• Fall 2000 ETLO launched with 14 teams and
  support of ATT
• Still working with many original teams here
  today VA, LA, MA, etc.
• Spring 2003 Partnership with SREB -- SC, AL, WV,
  TN, MD, KY, LA, VA, etc.
• Fall 2004 31 states 900 online facilitators
  and designers trained over 10,000 online
  workshop participants
• Jan 2005 Celebrating 5 years!

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EdTech Leaders Online Programs

• Two main OPD programs
• Facilitating and Implementing OPD
• Designing and Developing Online Courses
• Semester-long online training
• 26 online workshops project-based,
  subject/grade-level specific
• New Reading First, Algebra, Adolescent Lit,
  Diff. Instruction
• Ongoing planning and implementation support
• National forum for online instructors and
  designers growing!
• Graduate credit Certificate through Antioch
  University
• New Two main Virtual Schools programs
• Online Instructor
• Online Designer
• New Partnership with Western Governors
  University

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EdTech Leaders Online Workshops

• Workshops for Teachers of All Grade Levels and
  Content Areas
• Finding the Best Educational Resources on the Web
• Approaches and Tools for Developing Web-enhanced
  Lessons
• Using Technology to Support Research and
  Presentation
• Special Students in Regular Classrooms (with
  CAST)
• Transforming the Classroom with Project-Based
  Learning
• Designing a Virtual Tour
• Using Hand-Held Computers in the Classroom
• Classroom Assessment Enhanced by Technology
• Differentiating Instruction
• Workshops for Elementary Teachers
• Using New Technologies to Support Literacy in
  Upper Elementary Classrooms
• Using New Technologies to Support Literacy in
  Primary-level Classrooms
• Reading First Supporting Early Reading
  Instruction with Technology
• Using Technology in the Elementary Math Classroom

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EdTech Leaders Online Workshops, contd

• Workshops for Middle School and High School
  Teachers
• Using Technology to Support the Writing Process
• Technology Tools to Support Inquiry in the
  Science Classroom
• Using Technology in the Social Studies Classroom
• Using Technology to Model and Analyze Real Data
  in the Math Classroom
• Getting Ready for Algebra with Virtual
  Manipulatives
• Making the Most of Adolescent Literature
• Improving Reading and Writing in the Content
  Areas
• Helping Struggling Readers
• Teaching Students How to Conduct Online Research
• Workshops for School and District Leaders
• Special Students in Regular Classrooms
  Technology, Teaching and Universal Design for
  Administrators
• Planning for Curriculum Integration of Technology
  
• Safeguarding the Wired Schoolhouse
• Smart Budgeting for Technology An Introduction
  to TCO
• Data-Based School Reform

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Online Professional Development Model Some
lessons

• OPD incorporates basic principles of effective PD
• Content and pedagogy leads technology follows
• Focused on classroom practice
• Capacity-building, team approach collaborative
  relationships can be formed online
• Learning community model enables engaged,
  reflective discussions
• Complements and extends other PD activities -
  doesnt replace
• OPD is ongoing and enables follow-up
• Flexible programs can adapt to local needs
• Specific techniques and approaches are needed for
  effective online teaching and course design

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Thank you!

• Barbara Treacy
• btreacy_at_edc.org
• EdTech Leaders Online
• http//www.edtechleaders.org
• Education Development Center
• http//www.edc.org