Encouraging collaboration and building Community in Online Asynchronous Professional Development: designing for social capital
This research investigates a design and development approach to improving science teachers’ access to effective professional development (PD) in a fully online, asynchronous environment. Working with a small number of teachers, this study explores how a design combining social capital mechanisms wit...
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| author | Yoon, Susan A. Miller, Katherine Richman, Thomas Wendel, Daniel J Schoenfeld, Ilana Anderson, Emma Shim, Jooeun |
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| description | This research investigates a design and development approach to improving science teachers’ access to effective professional development (PD) in a fully online, asynchronous environment. Working with a small number of teachers, this study explores how a design combining social capital mechanisms with essential teacher learning and PD characteristics supported teachers’ abilities to participate in the online course and collaboratively build knowledge. Teachers’ perceptions of their experiences both in surveys and interviews demonstrated high satisfaction with the quality and usability of the PD, including positive beliefs related to the social capital elements of tie quality, depth of interaction, and access to expertise. Further transactivity analyses of their interactions in course discussions showed higher levels of collaborative discourse resulting from prompts that specifically targeted the exchange of information over those that asked teachers to reflect about their content understanding or their classroom practice. Implications for this design for asynchronous online PD approaches to reach more teachers are discussed. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1284232022-09-30T14:04:17Z Encouraging collaboration and building Community in Online Asynchronous Professional Development: designing for social capital Yoon, Susan A. Miller, Katherine Richman, Thomas Wendel, Daniel J Schoenfeld, Ilana Anderson, Emma Shim, Jooeun This research investigates a design and development approach to improving science teachers’ access to effective professional development (PD) in a fully online, asynchronous environment. Working with a small number of teachers, this study explores how a design combining social capital mechanisms with essential teacher learning and PD characteristics supported teachers’ abilities to participate in the online course and collaboratively build knowledge. Teachers’ perceptions of their experiences both in surveys and interviews demonstrated high satisfaction with the quality and usability of the PD, including positive beliefs related to the social capital elements of tie quality, depth of interaction, and access to expertise. Further transactivity analyses of their interactions in course discussions showed higher levels of collaborative discourse resulting from prompts that specifically targeted the exchange of information over those that asked teachers to reflect about their content understanding or their classroom practice. Implications for this design for asynchronous online PD approaches to reach more teachers are discussed. National Science Foundation (Grants DRL-1721003 and DRL-1019228) 2020-11-09T15:29:37Z 2020-11-09T15:29:37Z 2020-08 2020-02 2020-10-12T03:07:32Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1556-1607 1556-1615 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128423 Yoon, Susan A. et al. "Encouraging collaboration and building Community in Online Asynchronous Professional Development: designing for social capital." International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning 15, 3 (August 2020): 351–371 © 2020 International Society of the Learning Sciences, Inc. en http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11412-020-09326-2 International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. International Society of the Learning Sciences, Inc. application/pdf Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer US |
| spellingShingle | Yoon, Susan A. Miller, Katherine Richman, Thomas Wendel, Daniel J Schoenfeld, Ilana Anderson, Emma Shim, Jooeun Encouraging collaboration and building Community in Online Asynchronous Professional Development: designing for social capital |
| title | Encouraging collaboration and building Community in Online Asynchronous Professional Development: designing for social capital |
| title_full | Encouraging collaboration and building Community in Online Asynchronous Professional Development: designing for social capital |
| title_fullStr | Encouraging collaboration and building Community in Online Asynchronous Professional Development: designing for social capital |
| title_full_unstemmed | Encouraging collaboration and building Community in Online Asynchronous Professional Development: designing for social capital |
| title_short | Encouraging collaboration and building Community in Online Asynchronous Professional Development: designing for social capital |
| title_sort | encouraging collaboration and building community in online asynchronous professional development designing for social capital |
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