Web-Mediated Approaches to Teachers’ Professional Development

Dear Colleagues,

Professional development is a critical necessity in today’s educational environment, and educators are often required by their institutions to engage in on-going learning. However, with today’s technologies, this learning is no longer restricted to local and physical contexts. Educators are turning to a range of spaces to provide appropriate and effective training and professional development (PD) opportunities (Vu, Cao, Vu, and Cepero, 2014), including online course software, Moodle, Facebook, Twitter, listservs that provide open access avenues for sharing ideas through online venues (Albers, Pace, and Brown, 2013). The educational landscape has shifted greatly through such technologies and educators desire real-time, authentic, self-directed, and on-demand learning (Simonson, Schlosser, and Orellana, 2011). This guest-edited issue  "Web-mediated Approaches to Teachers' Professional Development" addresses the possibilities and challenges of designing and participating in professional development in web-based venues.

Albers, P., Pace, C., and Brown Jr., D.W. (2013). Critical participation in literacy research through new and emerging technologies: A study of web seminars and global engagement. Journal of Literacy and Technology, 14(2). Retrieved from http:// www.literacyandtechnology.org/jlt_14_2/jlt_14_2_albers_pace_brown.pdf

Simonson, M., Schlosser, C., and Orellana, A. (2011). Distance education research: A review of the literature. Journal Of Computing In Higher Education, 23(2-3), 124-142.

Vu, P., Cao, V., Vu, L., and Capero, J. (2014). Factors driving learner success in online professional development. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 15(3). Retrieved from http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/ article/view/1714/2907

Prof. Dr. Amy Seely Flint
Prof. Dr. Peggy Albers
Guest Editor

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