商品簡介
How can professional devleopment for teachers be more efficient and effective? This essential question lies at the heart of this timely and useful book. In an era marked by a heightened emphasis on school reform, the education and professional development of teachers is widely regarded as the keystone to educational improvement. Recently a bewildering array of online professional development programs has arisn. But how effective are these programs and how do they compare with one another? Inspired by a recent conference on usable knowledge at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, this book offers clear and pracical answers to these and other questions about online professional development. The authors look closely at exemplary online programs, compare them carefully with one another, and draw helpful conclusions about them-both for those who develop online programs, and for teachers and administrators in search of professional development programs that make a difference.
作者簡介
Editor Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and coeditor of Scaling Up Success: Lessons Learned from Technology-Based Educational Innovation.
