Abstract
Teacher professional development is the process of constantly strengthening professional attainment, broadening academic knowledge, enhancing the professional skills, and improving teaching ability. With the reform of learning science and the development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), the traditional mode of teacher professional development is confronted with challenge, and the new emerging MOOC system provides a new path for teacher professional development. The MOOC system is an important tool for teacher professional development because of teacher's professional characteristics, teacher's needs, and the cost of promotion. The application of MOOC system to teacher professional development, however, is still in the trial stage, and we need to carry on emphatically analysis on the policy, quality and value of the application of MOOC to teacher professional development. Coursera carried out projects of teacher professional development actively, and developed a series of teacher education curricula in cooperation with institutions of higher education and social culture institutions, which can be regarded as the pioneer and model in the field. At present, the application of MOOC system to teacher professional development is still in the stage of empiricism studies, and data-driven research in this field is needed, so as to deal with various potential obstacles, overcome different difficulties and solve possible problems.
Highlights
The development of learning science and the evolution of information and communication technology provides multiple methods for teacher professional development
A lot of factors contribute to the process, including the emphasis on professional teaching behavior, the need on the standard teaching ability, the increased amount of students, the diversified need of students, and the changing teaching technology
The majority previous research on MOOC concentrated on higher education and life-time education, but few touched its application on teacher professional development
Summary
The development of learning science and the evolution of information and communication technology provides multiple methods for teacher professional development. The application of remote educational system in teacher professional development is one of the most important methods, which is still in the process of evolving. The application of teaching technology fostered the effect and attractiveness of remote educational system, which oriented the rebuilding, redesigning, and redeveloping the educational system. This becomes one of the important components of educational system reform. MOOC is the latest remote educational system, which exerts profound impact on traditional teaching mode, leads a new trend in education, and provides a new method for teacher professional development. The majority previous research on MOOC concentrated on higher education and life-time education, but few touched its application on teacher professional development. There is a need to conduct experiments to explore the application of MOOC in teacher professional development
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