Designing and Researching Online Professional Development

In this working group, we continue with previous efforts to consider design and research methodologies related to teacher learning in online professional development contexts. We then describe an innovative project designed to support the development of middle school mathematics teachers, with a focus on three distinct forms of online learning: digitally communicated teaching lab lessons, an online course, and online video coaching. Given recent technological advances and demands to support teachers in various contexts, we contend that researching and understanding these online models, as well as other online models is important for the broader field of mathematics education. As a result, Year Three of this proposed discussion group will combine whole-group and subgroup time to converse about: (1) the challenges of online professional learning experiences; (2) research tools, methods, and analyses; (3) the connections among different projects and studies; (4) scaling up online models; and (5) future collaborations and research. [For the complete proceedings, see ED606556.]