Integrating E-learning for Administrative Staff Professional Development

Language Learning Materials Development for Teachers’ Professional Development

Coursebooks are normally written to contain information, instruction, exposure, and activities that learn- ers at a particular level need to enhance their communicative competence in the target language. Howev- er, many global course books make attempts to include content, topics, and texts that do not disadvantage any learner around the world. That is why global course books normally do ...

Professional development for professional developers: Who’s learning about e-learning from whom?

Transformative Learning Theory: A Possibility for Teachers’ Professional Development

Based on the transformative learning theory, it was sought to develop a procedure for helping teachers develop professionally. 13 elementary school teachers in one of the boys schools in Tehran’s district one participated in a workshop consisting of ten sessions and then interviewed. The content of the sessions was drawn from the theoretical basis of the study. Further field observations led to...

Integrating Research in Professional Learning

In the year 2000 United States’ enterprises already invested 20 percent of their budget (13 Billion US-$ out of 66 Billion US-$) for professional education in eLearning activities [Corp00]. A similar trend is now becoming apparent for Europe as well. According to research by the Gartner Group, the European market of corporate eLearning had a capacity of 829 million $ in 2001, and was supposed t...

Activity design in online professional development for university staff

Professional development for distance tutors is traditionally delivered through texts or websites, supplemented by face to face workshops. However, one of the major challenges is to ensure that they engage with the materials and carry away something which is of value to their practice. At the Open University (UK) our 8000 tutors work from home, and have few opportunities to meet fellow tutors o...