Educational Technology

July 9, 2012

Can the burgeoning world of online teacher training improve public education?

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:34 am

By Sarah Butrymowicz, Hechinger Report

Online teacher training involves much of the workload that traditional in-the-class instruction does: textbook lessons, classroom observations, student teaching. But the challenges of training successful teachers online were made clear to me during a recent online chat, when the professor in my “Foundations of Education” course slapped on heavy-duty headphones, peered into her computer screen and asked students what they liked or disliked about her internet course at National University.

http://hechingerreport.org/content/can-the-burgeoning-world-of-online-teacher-training-improve-public-education_8932/

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