Online educational opportunities provide
improved access to high quality professional development
for the early education and care workforce. Online and
technology mediated learning can create sustainable education
and development opportunities for states when faceto-face
training is financially prohibitive. This study
examined one state’s efforts to design and deliver a set of
online professional development courses. Through survey
research methods, the study examined the experiences of
both the trainers and the early educators in these online and
technology-mediated professional development courses. In
this study, findings indicated that early educators used
technology for personal use, but they may be less familiar
with learning technologies. Our findings indicate that some
early educators do have the technology skills and comfort
with technology needed to use the online modules for
professional development and to benefit from this format,
but most early educators still preferred using both technology
and feedback from an instructor or supervisor engaging in professional development. More research is
needed on how to make technology literacy and technology
access available to all early childhood educators.

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• Introducing Online Training in an Early Childhood Professional Development System: Lessons Learned in One State

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