电子学习时代的教师教育

Teacher Development in an e-Learning Age

在全世界范围内，人们对教师的期望值日益增加。教师不仅要为学生提供基本技能，还要在这急剧变化的全球知识社会中，教授学生取得成功所需要的技能。无论是发达国家还是发展中国家，都面临着塑造具备21 世纪技能的新一代教师的挑战，同时各国还需对现有师资力量进行技能升级，使之达到这一目标。电子学习作为一种为教育工作者提供丰富学习资源和多种全新职业发展机遇的途径，在全球范围内日益普及。本报告将探讨教师发展中应用电子学习所面临的各种机遇和挑战，以及电子学习实践的显现出来的趋势和问题。报告还将探讨高校和政府机构在教师发展领域开发、应用电子学习的策略案例，同时将包括报告人为UNESCO 撰写的一本新书《电子学习时代的教师发展》中的内容。

Increasingly, teachers across the world are expected to not only provide their students with basic skills, but also with the skills they will need to be successful in a rapidly changing, knowledge-based global society. Both developing and developed countries are faced with the challenge of preparing a new generation of teachers with 21st Century skills while upgrading the skills of the existing teacher force to achieve this goal. E-learning is increasingly used across the globe as an important means of providing educators with access to rich learning resources and with new opportunities for professional development. This presentation will discuss the opportunities and challenges in the use of e-learning for teacher development and the emerging trends and issues in the use of: Open educational resources for teacher development; Online educator professional development and degree programs;Online communities of practice. Also discussed will be examples of strategies used by higher education institutions and government agencies to develop and use e-learning for teacher development. The presentation will include content from the new UNESCO book, Teacher Development in an E-Learning Age, edited by Dr. Paul Resta.