Professional development of teachers collaboration and associations

Dr S K PulistDeputy Director

Distance Education Bureau,University Grants Commission,

New Delhi8th October, 2014

[email protected]

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ISfTE is an independent organization of teacher educators

free of external controls. It is dedicated to the improvement of

teacher education in all settings by fostering discussion, critical

analysis, and dissemination of ideas from research and innovative

practice in teacher education.http://isfte.org/

ISfTE’s networking systems facilitate scholarly professional

activity which includes an extensive International Educators Discussion List (group e-mail), its own Journal (JISTE) and frequent direct contact between members

from many countries and institutions.

http://isfte.org/

AERA, a national research society, strives to advance

knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education, and to

promote the use of research to improve education and serve the

public goodhttp://www.aera.net/

The AERA provides Grants with support from the National Science

Foundation. It provides dissertation and research grants

for conducting studies of education policy and practice

using federally-funded, large-scale data sets.http://www.aera.net/

Training of researchers and scholars in research methods and conceptual and

analytic issues related to research; drawing connections between education

research and policy; addressing important issues of professional

development research practice and policy of the highest quality. Advances in research methods, statistical techniques,

technology, and general modes and methods of research.http://www.aera.net/

The Association of Teacher Educators is an individual

membership organization devoted solely to the improvement of

teacher education both for school-based and post secondary teacher

educators.

http://www.ate1.org/pubs/home.cfm

This is a non-profit European organisation, whose aim is to enhance the quality of Teacher Education in Europe and supporting the professional development of teachers and teacher educators at all levels. The members of the ATEE are individuals and institutions involved in the research and practice of teacher education, both within and outside higher education.

http://www.atee1.org/the_association

AAE is the largest national, non-union, professional educators' organization, advancing the

profession by offering a modern approach to teacher representation and educational advocacy as well as

promoting professionalism, collaboration and excellence.

http://www.aaeteachers.org/

The World Association for Online Education is a membership organization and consists of individual educators concerned with e-learning. It is mandated to (a)organize a worldwide professional association of educators who use or wish to use online computer technology for education

http://www.waoe.org/

(b) to advance the development, implementation, evaluation, and administration of online education

(c) to advance technical and institutional support for practitioners,

(d) to encourage the dissemination of online education, its related technologies, needed skills, and perspectives as a discipline,

http://www.waoe.org/

Purpose of the platform is to facilitate information gathering and

exchange, and common development of ideas and projects among the multi-stakeholder teams

for each Action Line through collaborative and community

oriented online toolshttp://www.wsis-community.org/

Special Theme Based Online Communities are part of this

initiative.

http://www.wsis-community.org/

Community of Practitioners (CoP) seeks to create an on-line community of

teacher educators to let them network, share resources, seek help and talk

about education policy and day-to-day transactions. The teacher educators

should be able to see advantage in peer networking and break away from working

in isolation and become active participants of the public education

system.The larger and long-term objective of this project is to enable professional development of teacher educators.

http://teacher-network.in/

Supported by CEMCA

Indian Association of Teacher Educators

http://www.iate.org.in/

IATE is the oldest and leading professional body of teacher

educators of India established in 1950 at MS University, Baroda due to initiatives of eminent

educationists



It is mandated –To develop and promote teacher

educationTo provide a forum for discussion

and deliberations on issues and problems related to education in general and teacher education in particular



To conduct workshops, seminars, conferences etc. on teacher education and related areasTo publish journals, monographs and other literatures on teacher educationTo co-operate with organizations working in the area of teacher education;

All India Teacher Educators

Association

http://www.aijeh.com/

All India Teacher Educator Assocation (AITEA) is for B.Ed. & M.Ed. students, Research Scholars of Education and allied subjects, Assistant Professors, Associate Professors, Professors in Education .

All India Teacher Educators

Association

http://www.aijeh.com/

Aim of this group is sharing of information, ideas, views, opinions, suggestions, comments, queries, answers (Academic Interaction/ discussion). AITEA also Publish a International Journal of Education and Humanities.

Indian Teacher Educators Forum

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indian-teacher-educator

A place for teacher educators to know about the

recent trends, fellow teacher educators,

conference, seminar and workshop etc.



IndianTeacherEducators Google Group

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indianteachereducators

Share your thoughts, comments, suggestions, ideas, experiences, insights as well as your learning resources for IT

for Change



Karnataka teacher educator forum

(Community of Practice)

http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Karnataka_teacher_educator_forum

It houses Groups, Discussion Forums, Blogs, Wikis, Online

Courses, Subject specific portals, Thematic Portals, etc.

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Canvas Network

https://www.canvas.net/

Canvas Network gives instructors and institutions an open platform to share their expertise and institutional

experience with the world. It uses the Canvas, Open Source Learning Management System

Coursera

https://www.coursera.org/

Coursera is an education company that partners with the

top universities and organizations in the world to

offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.

EdX

https://www.edx.org/

EdX is a non-profit body created by founding partners Harvard

and MIT. Based on the principle of Open Source Platform, its aim

is to expand access to education for everyone.

Open to Study

https://www.open2study.com

Open to Study is an Australian MOOC platform; courses offered

are supported by Open Universities

Australia for accreditation and certification

Udacity

https://www.udacity.com/

Udacity was born out of a Stanford University experiment in which Sebastian

Thrun and Peter Norvigoffered their “Introduction to Artificial

Intelligence” course online to anyone, for free. provides

accessible, affordable, engaging and highly effective higher education to the

world.

WizIQ

https://www.wiziq.com/

WizIQ is a web-based platform for anyone and everyone who wants to teach and

learn live, online. Teachers and students use WizIQ for its state-of-the-art virtual classroom, to create and share online educational content and tests, and to connect with persons having similar

subject interests.

WizIQ

https://www.wiziq.com/

It is the virtual classroom with all the digital benefits, one can interact online usingImages, PowerPoint presentations and documents, Full way audio and video sharing, Live chat, Control Privileges like in real-world classroom, All classes are automatically recorded

Amrita Virtual Interactive E-Learning World (A-VIEW)

http://aview.in/aview

A-VIEW provides a rich interactive social environment for E-Learning. It is simple, user friendly video conferencing software, which provides a great opportunity to a teacher to teach in a live interactive mode to various geographical locations across India.



A-VIEW Classroom provides opportunity to connect several universities together and creates virtual world for students. It also acts as a Knowledge Cafe where students can discuss /chat about the lecture after the live class.



A-VIEW is part of Talk to a Teacher program coordinated by IIT Bombay. It is funded by the MHRD under the NME-ICT Project. A-VIEW is now deployed at several IITs, NITs and other leading educational institutions across the nation.

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MOOC onMobiles for

Development

www.m4d-mooc.org

Launched by IIT Kanpur in collaboration with COL

in Oct- Nov., 2013.

http://www.m4d-mooc.org/

MOOC on MOOCs

http://mooconmooc.org/

Launched by IIT Kanpur in collaboration with COL

in Sept, 2014.

The OER MOOC

http://www.wiziq.com/course/28219-the-oer-mooc

Individual effort by Dr R C Sharma, Dr Sanjay Jasola and Prof.

M M Pant Launched in Aug-Sept., 2013.

Use of Open Educational Resources

in Classroom

http://www.wiziq.com/course/28219-the-oer-mooc

MOOC launched by National Council of Educational

Research and Training in Sept-Oct, 2014

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WikiEducator

http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page

It is a community resource supported by the Commonwealth of Learning and Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand, for the development of free educational content.

It is an evolving online community intended for collaboration on the following:

WikiEducator

http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page

planning of education projects linked with the development of free content,development of free content on WikiEducator for eLearning,building of open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs, andnetworking on funding proposals developed as free content

Google Drive

http://www.google.com

With Google Drive on the web, we can:Create, add, or upload a file Easily find and add shared files.Drag and drop files and folders, just like

you do on your desktop.Share files with others and choose what

they can do with them: view, comment, or edit.

Access the files even when we are not connected to the Internet.

Google Drive

http://www.google.com

With Google Drive we can use the following formats:

DocumentsPresentationsSpreadsheetsFormsDrawings

blog

http://www.blogger.com

A blog is a discussion or informational site published on the Web consisting of posts displayed in reverse chronological order. A majority of blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even sending messages to each other.It can be seen as a form of social networking service.

blog

http://www.blogger.com

A blog is a discussion or informational site published on the Web consisting of posts displayed in reverse chronological order. A majority of blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even sending messages to each other.It can be seen as a form of social networking service.

Discussion??

Thank you!