By Mary Burns
THE FUTURE OF
PROFESSIONAL
LEARNING
What will technology-based teacher
professional development look like in
the next few years? Teacher training
curriculum designer Mary Burns
presents her top picks from the
professional learning technologies
now emerging around the world.
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5 EMERGING PD TECHNOLOGIES
Like every other industry, professional development (PD)
is going through a lot of changes as technology continues
to advance. Based on two years of research on teacher PD,
Education Development Center (EDC, www.edc.org) has iden-
tified technologies that are poised for more widespread adoption
for teacher learning around the world. Here are the top five, pre-
sented in reverse order of likelihood of widespread adoption.
