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Smolka, Jennifer, Participant's perceptions of online staff development and
learning tools. Doctor of Philosophy (Educational Computing), May 2003, 118 pp., 27
tables, 4 illustrations, references, 44 titles.
This study analyzed participants in an online professional development and certification
program can to see if they could predict the learning value of individual distance
education tools. The Texas Center for Educational Technology (TCET) funded by the
Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund (TIF) designed the Technology
Applications Certification Program (TACP). In the TACP, students are offered four
graduate level classes which, when combined, meet the standards for the State Board for
Educator Certification (SBEC) Technology Applications certification. The four courses
that comprise the TACP are Computers in Education, Introduction to the Internet,
Multimedia in Technology Applications, and Introduction to Video Technologies. The
first course started in January 2002 with approximately 706 participants in 40 cohorts
across the state of Texas. The TACP combines two different worlds of technology
training. Half of the coursework was completed through asynchronous content and
discussions, while the remaining classes were hands-on classes in local district computer
labs. These face-to-face meetings enabled learners to get hands-on training with direct
assistance. Between the online and face-to-face segments, a variety of learning tools
were introduced to the participants. Participants were surveyed through the online
Snapshot Survey in January and again in September.
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