TY - JOUR TI - The STARS Leadership Corps: An innovative computer science learning community AU - Barnes, Tiffany AU - Dahlberg, Teresa AU - Buch, Kim AU - Bean, Karen T2 - Learning Communities Journal DA - 2009/// PY - 2009/// VL - 1 IS - 2 SP - 5–18 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Comparing Self-paced and Cohort-based Online Courses for Teachers AU - Russell, Michael AU - Kleiman, Glenn AU - Carey, Rebecca AU - Douglas, Joanne T2 - Journal of Research on Technology in Education AB - The study investigated whether online professional development courses with different levels of support have different impacts on teacher outcomes. Variations of an online course for middle school algebra teachers were created for four experimental conditions. One was a highly supported condition, with a math education instructor, an online facilitator, and asynchronous peer interactions among participants available as participants worked through the course together. Another was a self paced condition, in which none of the supports were available. The other two conditions provided intermediate levels of support. All conditions showed significant impact on teachers’ mathematical understanding, pedagogical beliefs, and instructional practices. Surprisingly, the positive outcomes were comparable across all four conditions. Further research is needed to determine whether this finding is limited to self selected teachers, the specifics of this online course, or other factors that limit generalizability. DA - 2009/6// PY - 2009/6// DO - 10.1080/15391523.2009.10782538 VL - 41 IS - 4 SP - 443-466 J2 - Journal of Research on Technology in Education LA - en OP - SN - 1539-1523 1945-0818 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2009.10782538 DB - Crossref KW - Online professional development KW - distance learning KW - e-learning KW - online facilitation KW - self-paced learning ER - TY - CONF TI - A validation study of a methodology for assessing progress of learning and complex, ill-structured problem solving in stem domains AU - Eseryel, D. AU - Ifenthaler, D. AU - Ge, X. C2 - 2009/// C3 - IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age, CELDA 2009 DA - 2009/// SP - 363-368 UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84883021205&partnerID=MN8TOARS ER -