Abstract. The goal of this project is to produce a white paper defining the
characteristics and approaches to the next generation of online teacher
learning.
Group Contact: Raymond Rose.
Mary Lamon mlamon@kf.oise.utoronto.ca
Chris Doyle cdoyle@kern.org
Arthur VanderVeen 2vveen@bricolage.com
Nancy Haas nancywh@home.com
Mark Schlager schlager@unix.sri.com
Jerry Lapiroff jlapiroff@fremont.k12.ca.us
Therese Laferriere tlaf@fse.ulaval.ca
Kathleen Fulton kf63@umail.umd.edu
Sue Doubler sue_doubler@terc.edu
Our goals is to develop new approaches to teacher learning, to extend
current professional development practice to reflect current
opportunities provided by technology and current learning theory.
Changes within our educational systems demand new approaches to
teaching and learning.
This is critical to education. Netcourses and instructional technology
have the potential to make major changes to the entire learning environment
We need to create a set of characteristics and approaches that will engage teachers in the same technology rich learning
that will be used in the classroom. Technology provides an opportunity to move
beyond existing models (both face to face and online) and to develop
new models. This white paper will provide direction for policymakers,
researchers, college educators, and professional developers.
The team or nine people, representing 9 different
organizations, bring with them an extensive set of resources which include
perspectives from all of the major constituencies involved with teacher learning.
They together have strenghts and experience in fields of research, policy, and practice.
June - December
Sharing of existing resources from the organizations and personal libraries
Literature review (annotated)
review of existing case studies from selected sites
online conferencing
Dec. 11, 1999
one day working meeting to pull together an outline for the white
paper
Dec. 12-15, 1999
Conference presentation at CSCL to present and get feedback on the concepts
to be covered in the white paper
Jan 00 - June 00
Paper writing to be completed June 1
Online collaboration (asynchronously) through CSILE and (synchronously)
through Tapped In from June 99 - Dec. 11, 99 (teachers, administrators
and online educators)
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