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Online professional development across institutions and borders
Professional development (PD) is a key element for enhancing the quality of academic teaching. An increasing number of PD activities have moved to blended and online formats, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the desire, potential, and need for collaboration among educators to learn fro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10208684/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37251087 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41239-023-00399-1 |
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author | Rienties, Bart Divjak, Blazenka Eichhorn, Michael Iniesto, Francisco Saunders-Smits, Gillian Svetec, Barbi Tillmann, Alexander Zizak, Mirza |
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description | Professional development (PD) is a key element for enhancing the quality of academic teaching. An increasing number of PD activities have moved to blended and online formats, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the desire, potential, and need for collaboration among educators to learn from innovative and best practices, several institutions have started to pool their resources and expertise together and have started to implement cross-institutional and cross-national online professional development (OPD). The questions of what type of a (cross-)institutional OPD educators might prefer, and whether educators learn effectively from (and with) peers in such cross-cultural context have not been adequately explored empirically. In this case-study across three European countries, we explored the lived experiences of 86 educators as a result of a cross-institutional OPD. Using a mixed methods design approach our pre-post findings indicated that, on average, participants made substantial gains in knowledge. In addition, several cultural differences were evident in the expectations and lived experiences in ODP, as well as the intention to transfer what had been learned into one's own practice of action. This study indicates that while substantial economic and pedagogical affordances are provided with cross-institutional OPD, cultural differences in context might impact the extent to which educators implement lessons learned from OPD. |
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spelling | pubmed-102086842023-05-25 Online professional development across institutions and borders Rienties, Bart Divjak, Blazenka Eichhorn, Michael Iniesto, Francisco Saunders-Smits, Gillian Svetec, Barbi Tillmann, Alexander Zizak, Mirza Int J Educ Technol High Educ Research Article Professional development (PD) is a key element for enhancing the quality of academic teaching. An increasing number of PD activities have moved to blended and online formats, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the desire, potential, and need for collaboration among educators to learn from innovative and best practices, several institutions have started to pool their resources and expertise together and have started to implement cross-institutional and cross-national online professional development (OPD). The questions of what type of a (cross-)institutional OPD educators might prefer, and whether educators learn effectively from (and with) peers in such cross-cultural context have not been adequately explored empirically. In this case-study across three European countries, we explored the lived experiences of 86 educators as a result of a cross-institutional OPD. Using a mixed methods design approach our pre-post findings indicated that, on average, participants made substantial gains in knowledge. In addition, several cultural differences were evident in the expectations and lived experiences in ODP, as well as the intention to transfer what had been learned into one's own practice of action. This study indicates that while substantial economic and pedagogical affordances are provided with cross-institutional OPD, cultural differences in context might impact the extent to which educators implement lessons learned from OPD. Springer International Publishing 2023-05-25 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10208684/ /pubmed/37251087 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41239-023-00399-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Article Rienties, Bart Divjak, Blazenka Eichhorn, Michael Iniesto, Francisco Saunders-Smits, Gillian Svetec, Barbi Tillmann, Alexander Zizak, Mirza Online professional development across institutions and borders |
title | Online professional development across institutions and borders |
title_full | Online professional development across institutions and borders |
title_fullStr | Online professional development across institutions and borders |
title_full_unstemmed | Online professional development across institutions and borders |
title_short | Online professional development across institutions and borders |
title_sort | online professional development across institutions and borders |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10208684/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37251087 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41239-023-00399-1 |
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