{"id":2459,"date":"2012-07-09T09:31:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T13:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2012-09-27T10:39:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T14:39:00","slug":"distance-education-for-teacher-professional-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/distance-education-for-teachers\/distance-education-for-teacher-professional-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Distance Education for Teacher Professional Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/open-distance-learning.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"distance learning teachers\" height=\"261\" width=\"550\"><\/center><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style\"><a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_1\"><\/a><a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_2\"><\/a><a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_3\"><\/a><a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_4\"><\/a><a class=\"addthis_button_compact\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=wayan\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p> The greatest single predictor of student achievement is access to a high-quality teacher. Yet many teachers across the globe lack the content, pedagogical and assessment knowledge to be considered &#8220;high quality.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Many countries are attempting to address this issue through distance learning as they ramp up efforts to meet Education for All and Millennium Development Goals (sub-Saharan Africa), as they attempt to make all teachers &#8220;highly-qualified&#8221; (USA and Indonesia, for example) and as they attempt to make educational access more universal (e.g., India&#8217;s Right to Education Act).<\/p>\n<p>For a variety of reasons, distance education (TV, IRI but especially, online learning) is seen as the ideal mechanism for pre- and in-service teacher training because the information dissemination abilities of information and communication technologies (ICT) can multiply the reach and impact of high quality teacher professional development resources. <\/p>\n<p>In the future, we may all learn via the Internet, with seamless on- and off-line learning opportunities, and distance education, unlike face-to-face learning, offers opportunities for scale. Before we reach this shimmering future, we should ask three vital questions about our current reality:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>Is distance education a viable solution to attain the kind of high quality teachers students need?<\/li>\n<li>If so, how can we develop, deploy, and measure distance education for teachers and how do we define and measure impact?<\/li>\n<li>Can distance education achieve both quality <i>and<\/i> scale or are they mutually exclusive?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Join the following experts in a discussion of these questions and the overall promise of distance education for teachers in this month&#8217;s Educational Technology Debate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ltd.edc.org\/people\/mary-burns\">Mary Burns<\/a>, a senior technology specialist at Education Development Center<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/alvaro-h-galvis\/1\/836\/798\">Alvaro Galvis<\/a>, President of Metacursos SAS<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicef.org\/infobycountry\/lebanon.html\">Wafa Kotob<\/a>, Senior Education Advisor, UNICEF country office in Lebanon<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/khalid-mahmood\/15\/942\/454\">Khalid Mahmood<\/a>, Director, Strategic Planning and Institutional Strengthening, USAID Teacher Education Project (Pre-STEP), Pakistan <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uclan.ac.uk\/ahss\/languages_and_international\/michael_thomas.php\">Michael Thomas<\/a>, Senior Lecturer, Language Learning Technologies, School of Literature, Languages and International Studies, at University of Central Lancashire, UK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your input, comments, and opinions on their respective posts are not only invited, they are encouraged.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embednewsletter\">\n<h2>Don&#8217;t miss a moment of the action!<\/h2>\n<p>Subscribe now and get the latest articles from Educational Technology Debate sent directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<form action=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify\" method=\"post\" target=\"popupwindow\" onsubmit=\"window.open('http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=EducationalTechnologyDebate', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true\"><input class=\"text\" id=\"email\" name=\"email\" type=\"text\"><input value=\"EducationalTechnologyDebate\" name=\"uri\" type=\"hidden\"><input name=\"loc\" value=\"en_US\" type=\"hidden\"><input value=\"Sign Up\" class=\"img\" type=\"Submit\"><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/EducationalTechnologyDebate\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~fc\/EducationalTechnologyDebate?bg=003366&amp;fg=FFFFFF&amp;anim=0\" height=\"26\" width=\"88\" style=\"border:0\" class=\"fburner\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br style=\"clear:left;\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest single predictor of student achievement is access to a high-quality teacher. 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