Here's a wonderful opportunity to explore topics 
in E-learning for teachers. I hope you'll be able 
to join us! - D

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The Education Alliance at Brown University would 
like to invite you to an e-meeting on March 2 to 
discuss the findings of three studies we recently 
completed dealing with online learning among 
teachers and instructional coaches.  These 
studies focused on the development of effective 
tools and strategies to support professional 
learning about elementary mathematics and 
adolescent literacy instruction. Reports on the 
studies are available free-of-charge online as 
pdf documents (URLs below) and in single print 
copies while supplies last. (Send a request to 
info at alliance.brown.edu.) We invite you to review 
these studies and to share them among your staff 
and colleagues.

The e-meeting on March 2, from 3 to 4:30 pm ET, 
will allow for informal discussion of the work 
described in these reports. We believe that our 
efforts to understand how to design and evaluate 
online professional development activities have 
implications for other e-learning initiatives 
underway in your  regions. We would welcome an 
opportunity to explore these implications with 
you and to hear about how you are evaluating the 
effectiveness of your own e-learning professional 
development efforts.

We invite you to register for the e-meeting by 
going to 
http://www.alliance.brown.edu/events/webtours. 
Registration is required in order to receive the 
e-meeting directions and URL. We encourage you to 
invite others who would find this discussion 
useful.

For further information on the studies, or if you 
have questions about this e-meeting invitation, 
please email Stephanie_Feger at brown.edu.

We look forward to collaborating with you online.
The Education Alliance's E-Learning Development Team

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The studies that will be discussed are as follows:

Gauging and Improving Interactions in Online 
Seminars for Mathematics Coaches 
http://www.alliance.brown.edu/db/ea_catalog.php?search_calc=d10426
This study examined the quality of peer-to-peer 
interaction in an online seminar that engaged 
coaches from across the country.

The Role of Facilitation in Online Professional 
Development: Engendering Co-construction of 
Knowledge 
http://www.alliance.brown.edu/db/ea_catalog.php?search_calc=d10425
This study explored the facilitation strategies 
used to foster collaboration and mathematical 
inquiry among participants in an online seminar.

Both of the studies above were based on 
Investigations Online seminars for elementary 
school mathematics teachers implementing the 
Investigations in Data, Number, and Space 
curriculum. The papers describe the results of 
the studies and the design features of this model 
for online professional learning.


Improving Online Collaborative Learning for 
Teachers: How Changes to Design Features of the 
Adolescent Literacy Collaboratory Influenced 
Participant Retention, Overall Satisfaction, and 
Engagement 
http://www.alliance.brown.edu/db/ea_catalog.php?search_calc=d10427
This paper describes the design features of the 
Adolescent Literacy in the Content Areas 
Collaboratory, a year-long professional 
development activity for teachers from various 
content areas: social studies, English/language 
arts, mathematics, and science. The authors 
discuss the results of changes in the design of 
the online activities between the first and 
second years of the Collaboratory.


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Mary Anne Mather, Program Planning Specialist
The Education Alliance
222 Richmond Street, Suite 300
Providence, RI 02903-4226
Mary_Anne_Mather at brown.edu
401/274-9548 Ext. 315
Fax: 401-421-7650

The Education Alliance: http://www.alliance.brown.edu
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