Professional Development

This page includes links to relevant professional development websites.

Online Assessment

http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/irahe/arc/3onl_mod.html

This site provides online educators with guiding principles and rubrics for online course assessment.

Learning Circuits

http://www.astd.org/lc

Titled "Learning Circuits," this site includes useful written reports on recent trends in "e-learning" and "learning technology." It may be useful for online educators who want to be aware of recent trends in educational technology.

Learn Space

http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/index.htm

This site provides many valuable resources for those who want to learn more about online learning, technology to facilitate online instruction, content management systems, and much more.

Journal of Online Learning and Teaching

http://jolt.merlot.org/

This site is an online version of the Journal of Online Learning and Teaching. Readers will find helpful articles on new technologies enhancing the traditional and online classrooms.

All Things PLC

http://www.allthingsplc.info/

This website provides a comprehensive resource for those interested in learning more about or starting a Professional Learning Community. Find best practice articles, discussion boards and inspirational stories of PLCs on the ground.

Online Learning Update

http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/blogger.html

This blog, entitled "Online Learning Update," contains many useful posts and conversation threads about recent trends in online learning research, educational technology and much more.

Journal of Online Education

http://innovateonline.info/?view=issue

Access current and back issues of this journal which features articles on everything related to online learning and teaching.

Journal of Interactive Online Learning

http://www.ncolr.org/jiol/

Access current and back issues. This journal features articles on online learning, teaching and technology use.

Education Journal & Magazines

http://www.elearners.com/resources/journals.asp

See a list of journals and magazines that feature work related to online education.

Teacher Education Online

http://www.teacheronlineeducation.com/

Provides professional development opportunities and courses on a variety of timely topics. Relevant for online and traditional educators.

North Carolina Community College System's Virtual Learning Community

http://vlc.nccommunitycolleges.edu/

Visit this site and obtain and share resources about distance learning education with members of NCCCS's virtual learning community.

EdTech Leaders Online

http://www.edtechleaders.org/

This site offers professional development opportunities/materials for those interested in online education and technology.

eLearning Workshops

http://www.paec.org/teacher2teacher/

This site offers electronic professional development "video courses" for teaching the content areas.

PBS Teacher Line

http://www.pbs.org/teacherline/

This site offers professional development in the areas of math, science, instructional technology, reading, and teaching strategies.

Building Online Communities

http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com/blog/2007/08/the-art-of-buil.html

This site offers a nice reference for online community building; it would be useful for those looking for strategies to create community online.

Educational Websites

http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/~wood/edwebsites.htm

This site offers a variety of recources for online educators: including lesson plans and best practices for several academic subjects.

The Future of Education

http://www.futureofeducation.com/

Lots of interesting discussions going on here. Includes podcasts of recent lectures about online education.

Cable in the Classroom

http://www.ciconline.org/thresholdfall08

The website of Threashold magazine; readers have access to articles about online learning, trends, virtual schools...virtually everything.