Does professional development for online instruction improve student course outcomes?

IF 6.4 1区教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Internet and Higher Education Pub Date : 2025-01-19 DOI:10.1016/j.iheduc.2025.100993

Xuehan Zhou , Qiujie Li , Di Xu

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Abstract

With the fast expansion of online learning in higher education, institutions have increasingly offered and mandated faculty professional development (PD) programs focused on online instruction. However, the extent to which these PD programs indeed lead to improved students' online course performance remains largely unknown. This paper used a rigorous quasi-experimental approach to estimate the impact of a PD program on student online course performance at a large community college using a dataset that includes more than 370,000 online course enrollments taught by close to 900 instructors. The analyses yielded robust, nonsignificant estimates for the PD program on both online course persistence and course grades. Further qualitative analysis of the courses taught by PD participants indicated that instructors' integration of elements covered by the PD training into their subsequent teaching was fairly limited, highlighting the need for ongoing support to help instructors incorporate recommended practices into instruction.

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在线教学的专业发展是否能提高学生的课程成果？

随着在线教育在高等教育中的快速发展，越来越多的机构提供并强制要求教师专业发展（PD）项目以在线教学为重点。然而，这些PD项目在多大程度上确实提高了学生的在线课程表现，这在很大程度上仍然是未知的。本文使用了一种严格的准实验方法来估计PD项目对一所大型社区大学学生在线课程表现的影响，使用的数据集包括近900名教师教授的37万多门在线课程注册。分析得出了PD项目在线课程持续时间和课程成绩的可靠的、不显著的估计。对PD参与者所教授的课程进行进一步的定性分析表明，教师将PD培训所涵盖的要素整合到后续教学中的能力相当有限，这突出了持续支持的必要性，以帮助教师将推荐的实践纳入教学。

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Internet and Higher Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

CiteScore

19.30

自引率

4.70%

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审稿时长

40 days

期刊介绍： The Internet and Higher Education is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal focused on contemporary issues and future trends in online learning, teaching, and administration within post-secondary education. It welcomes contributions from diverse academic disciplines worldwide and provides a platform for theory papers, research studies, critical essays, editorials, reviews, case studies, and social commentary.