national educational telecommunications association annual meeting henderson, nevada jan. 12, 2010
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National Educational Telecommunications Association
Annual Meeting
Henderson, Nevada
Jan. 12, 2010
• Unique collaborative effort of PTV/SDE
• Goal: Sustainable, collaborative state system of high quality OPD
• Improve teacher content knowledge, practice & student performance
• Innovation & Technology for 21st century skills
eFE STATES
Innovations• Freely shared
resources among partners (100+ courses)
• Aligned with state PD needs & state/national standards
• Maximizes public investments
• Facilitated online courses created by/for educators
• Informed by continual evaluation & research
Transformations
• A model for curriculum planning & revision!
• A triad of T&L resources: curriculum, PD, classroom media
• PTV’s increased credentials for ed. staff
• Streamlined methods of production
Benefits
• $1.28 Million to 8 PTVs in FY 09
• Builds/extends on extensive partnerships for future work; new constituencies/relevance
• Taps PTV expertise in developing web accessible digital media aligned with PD, curriculum; new uses for existing locally-owned PTV content
• Renewed & refined educational mission for both PTV & SDE
Capacity Building Training and Partnerships
• Cornerstone of success and sustainability
• Multi-level partnerships: in-state and cross-state
• Multi-faceted training: preparing online learning leaders, instructors and developers
• Multi-level capacity building: national, state, teacher
• Multi-year focus: ongoing from program inception
Multi-Level Partnerships
• PTV / State partnership foundation of entire program
• In-state leadership teams
– PTV/State partners core of state leadership team
– Collaborative decision making
– Collaborative training and development
– Important new partnerships within partner Agencies
• Cross-state collaboration
– Course sharing and adaptation
– Regular sharing of resources, lessons and plans
Multi-faceted Training
• Online Instructor Training– Educators from each state prepared to teach online in
intensive graduate level online program– Participants recruited from PTV, DoE, Districts
• Online Developer Training– Educators from each state prepared to develop online in
intensive graduate level online program– Development teams include PTV/State/District partners
• Online Leadership Development– State leadership teams engage in week-long retreat for
training and planning each year
Multi-level capacity building • National
– Developed a new model for collaboration and sharing which keeps costs low and benefits high
• State
– Established policies, procedures and infrastructure
– Created expanding group of stakeholders
– Built strong and growing teacher base
• Teachers
– Providing access to high quality, effective, ongoing PD that meets their needs
Five Focus Areas of the Evaluation
• Implementation
• Teacher Impacts
• Student Impacts
• Capacity Building
• Sustainability
Implementation of the eFE Initiative
Across all 8 states:
• 1536 workshops delivered
• Over 90 workshop titles offered
• 21,628 participants completed workshops
• 12,780 participants completed both pre and post evaluation surveys
Profile of the Participants N = 12,780
By Qualifications, Experience & Title 1 StatusBy Gender, Age & Ethnicity
Participants’ Workshop Satisfaction
Organization of eFE Courses N = 12,780
Participant Satisfaction:Comparisons with other OPD Programs
•eFE satisfaction data largely comparable to other OPD programs
–Eleven comparisons yielded no differences–Two differences favoring eFE (right)–One difference favoring another OPD program (right)
Likelihood of taking another OPD course
The website was user-friendly
Addressed areas of curricular/pedagogical need
Stability of Perceived Content Knowledge
• Significantly higher content knowledge on the post and follow-up survey
• F (1, 1701) = 914.81, p < .001, ηp2 = .48 (moderate effect)
Capacity Building
Across all 8 states:• More than 480 workshop facilitators
trained• More than 278 course developers trained• More than 110 workshops developed• 2 new states added to the initiative• Development of local evaluation
Specific Sustainability Strategies
Partnerships with public television stations help to: • Provide video content for courses• Market the eFE program within individual states
(planning, create spots)• Recruit teacher participants (strategies)• Recommend people for training (facilitators,
course developers)
Overall Sustainability Efforts
• Partnerships– Public television
stations– Departments of
Education– Local universities
• Funding– Partnerships– Alternate grant funds– Course fees
• Marketing– Broadcast media– Websites– Conference
presentations– Promotional literature
• Cross State Collaboration– Workshop sharing– Ideas & Strategies
Additional Information
For additional information about eLearning for Educators, contact:
Lynne Meeks [email protected] Public Television
Barbara Treacy [email protected] Development Center
Kara Smith [email protected]
Boston College