网络条件下互动的教育者业务发展

Interactive On-line Professional Development for Educators

在知识积累、学习研究和教育技术飞速发展的当今时代 ,教师必须成为不断的学习者。作为一种工具 ,因特网可以克服教师在业务发展方面的局限 ,但仅仅靠技术还不能改变教育实践。因特网资源必须同活动和机制相结合 ,才能帮助教师发展自己的业务。本文作者将引用哈佛教育研究院所发展的网络学习环境及有关的网上课程 。

Teachers must be continual learners in this era of rapid change in the development of knowledge, of research on learning, and of educational technologies. Most professional development for teachers is inadequate and inaccessible, however. It is often out-dated, too abstract, remote from the realities of teachers' practice, and devoid of sustained coaching and support. Even such inadequate opportunities for continued learning are unavailable to many teachers. The Internet holds promise as a means for overcoming the inadequacies and inaccessibility of professional development for teachers. But technology alone will not change educational practice. Internet-based resources must be combined with activities and structures that sustain teachers' thoughtful engagement with new ideas, encourage the application of new practices, develop collegial relationships, and support virtual communities of practice. In this presentation, I will describe and analyze ways of using the Internet to provide professional development. I will include a summary of research on effective designs for both learning and professional development, along with the features of Internet technologies that are particularly valuable in enacting such designs. Interactive online learning environments and related online courses, developed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will be used to illustrate these themes.