National Educational Telecommunications Association

Annual Meeting

Henderson, Nevada

Jan. 12, 2010

• Unique collaborative effort of PTV/SDE

• Goal: Sustainable, collaborative state system of high quality OPD

• Improve teacher content knowledge, practice & student performance

• Innovation & Technology for 21st century skills

eFE STATES

Innovations• Freely shared

resources among partners (100+ courses)

• Aligned with state PD needs & state/national standards

• Maximizes public investments

• Facilitated online courses created by/for educators

• Informed by continual evaluation & research

Transformations

• A model for curriculum planning & revision!

• A triad of T&L resources: curriculum, PD, classroom media

• PTV’s increased credentials for ed. staff

• Streamlined methods of production

Benefits

• $1.28 Million to 8 PTVs in FY 09

• Builds/extends on extensive partnerships for future work; new constituencies/relevance

• Taps PTV expertise in developing web accessible digital media aligned with PD, curriculum; new uses for existing locally-owned PTV content

• Renewed & refined educational mission for both PTV & SDE

Capacity Building Training and Partnerships

• Cornerstone of success and sustainability

• Multi-level partnerships: in-state and cross-state

• Multi-faceted training: preparing online learning leaders, instructors and developers

• Multi-level capacity building: national, state, teacher

• Multi-year focus: ongoing from program inception

Multi-Level Partnerships

• PTV / State partnership foundation of entire program

• In-state leadership teams

– PTV/State partners core of state leadership team

– Collaborative decision making

– Collaborative training and development

– Important new partnerships within partner Agencies

• Cross-state collaboration

– Course sharing and adaptation

– Regular sharing of resources, lessons and plans

Multi-faceted Training

• Online Instructor Training– Educators from each state prepared to teach online in

intensive graduate level online program– Participants recruited from PTV, DoE, Districts

• Online Developer Training– Educators from each state prepared to develop online in

intensive graduate level online program– Development teams include PTV/State/District partners

• Online Leadership Development– State leadership teams engage in week-long retreat for

training and planning each year

Multi-level capacity building • National

– Developed a new model for collaboration and sharing which keeps costs low and benefits high

• State

– Established policies, procedures and infrastructure

– Created expanding group of stakeholders

– Built strong and growing teacher base

• Teachers

– Providing access to high quality, effective, ongoing PD that meets their needs

Five Focus Areas of the Evaluation

• Implementation

• Teacher Impacts

• Student Impacts

• Capacity Building

• Sustainability

Implementation of the eFE Initiative

Across all 8 states:

• 1536 workshops delivered

• Over 90 workshop titles offered

• 21,628 participants completed workshops

• 12,780 participants completed both pre and post evaluation surveys

Profile of the Participants N = 12,780

By Qualifications, Experience & Title 1 StatusBy Gender, Age & Ethnicity

Participants’ Workshop Satisfaction

Organization of eFE Courses N = 12,780

Participant Satisfaction:Comparisons with other OPD Programs

•eFE satisfaction data largely comparable to other OPD programs

–Eleven comparisons yielded no differences–Two differences favoring eFE (right)–One difference favoring another OPD program (right)

Likelihood of taking another OPD course

The website was user-friendly

Addressed areas of curricular/pedagogical need

Stability of Perceived Content Knowledge

• Significantly higher content knowledge on the post and follow-up survey

• F (1, 1701) = 914.81, p < .001, ηp2 = .48 (moderate effect)

Capacity Building

Across all 8 states:• More than 480 workshop facilitators

trained• More than 278 course developers trained• More than 110 workshops developed• 2 new states added to the initiative• Development of local evaluation

Specific Sustainability Strategies

Partnerships with public television stations help to: • Provide video content for courses• Market the eFE program within individual states

(planning, create spots)• Recruit teacher participants (strategies)• Recommend people for training (facilitators,

course developers)

Overall Sustainability Efforts

• Partnerships– Public television

stations– Departments of

Education– Local universities

• Funding– Partnerships– Alternate grant funds– Course fees

• Marketing– Broadcast media– Websites– Conference

presentations– Promotional literature

• Cross State Collaboration– Workshop sharing– Ideas & Strategies

Additional Information

For additional information about eLearning for Educators, contact:

Lynne Meeks lmeeks@aptv.orgAlabama Public Television

Barbara Treacy btreacy@edc.orgEducation Development Center

Kara Smith karasmith731@gmail.com

Boston College