MOOCs for Teacher Professional Development: Reflections, and Suggested Actions

Pradeep Kumar Misra

doi:10.5944/openpraxis.10.1.780

MOOCs for Teacher Professional Development: Reflections, and Suggested Actions

Open Praxis

Volume 10 (2018): Issue 1

By: Pradeep Kumar Misra

Open Access

|Jan 2018

Abstract

Teacher Professional Development (TPD) has become a major policy priority within education systems worldwide. But keeping teachers professionally up-to-date and providing them professional development opportunities on continuing basis is a big challenge. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) can be a cost and resource effective means to complement the traditional methods of professional development of teachers. This optimism is based on the assumption that use of MOOCs will facilitate mass training of teachers as per their convenience and ease. The other assumption is that being MOOCs-based training, it will be easy to adapt it to different cultures and languages. Considering these assumptions, this concept paper which is based on reviews of different reports, documents and research papers - discusses the challenges of TPD, reflects upon promises of using MOOCs for TPD; details initiatives and experiences of using MOOCs for TPD; and suggests actions for promoting the use of MOOCs for TPD.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.10.1.780 | Journal eISSN: 2304-070X

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Language: English

Page range: 67 - 77

Submitted on: Oct 28, 2017

Accepted on: Jan 9, 2018

Published on: Jan 1, 2018

Published by: International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

MOOCs,

Teacher Professional Development,

TPD,

Teachers,

Teacher Training,

Professional Development of Teachers

© 2018 Pradeep Kumar Misra, published by International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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