How To Translate Professional Learning To Virtual Settings

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How to translate professional learning to virtual settings

By Jill DePiper, Angela Knotts and Nanette Seago

Categories: Instructional materials/curriculum, Technology

February 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic moved teaching and learning to remote and virtual spaces, teacher professional learning moved online as well. Educators discovered that online asynchronous professional learning offers some benefits that may be worth keeping for the long-term: Teachers and leaders have more control of their professional learning schedules, flexibility to balance competing priorities, and fewer logistical constraints. And research studies comparing online and traditional face-to-face offerings are encouraging: In some settings, online professional learning has been found to improve teachers’ attitudes and self-efficacy (An, 2018) and lead to high satisfaction and relatively high levels of information sharing (Yoon et al., 2020). Online professional learning also has drawbacks, however. Participating educators sometimes feel isolated, stuck behind a computer screen without the rich social interactions of

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The Video in the Middle project is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. DRL 1720507. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.

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