The Analysis And Framework Design Of Online Teacher Professional Development Platform

This thesis is on the ground of social Constructivism, online-learning Community and online teacher professional development, according to standards for online professional development, analyze two representative platform of online teacher professional development ,summarize the correlation of the research view, and sum up the advantages and disadvantages of the two platform, combine with the survey of the online teacher professional development ,summarize the design principles and methods of the platform, and finally design the framework of the online teacher professional development.This thesis includes six chapters.Chapterâ… IntroductionFollowing the current learning trends and the characteristics of the times, the author propose the research questions, purpose, significance, structure and method of research in chapterâ… .Chapter II Literature ReviewFocused on the research questions, in this chapter, paper give an introduction of the online teacher professional development theory both at home and abroad, and also give some brief introductions to the platform which was going to introduce in the chapter IV, and make statements about the related concepts of online professional development for teachers.Chapter III Theoretical BasisThesis respectively expounds the basic ideas and opinions of social constructivism, self-organization theory and standards for online professional development, which offer theoretically basis for this study. Chapter IV Online Teacher Professional Development Platform By discussing advantages and disadvantages of teacher continuing education programs website and Tapped IN, which both aim at promoting teachers professional development, author propose a better method and view for designing online teacher professional development platform.Chapterâ…¤SurveyThis chapter is to analyze current situation of teacher's online professional development situation and their requirements based on the recovery of the questionnaire and the interview of elementary and secondary school teachers. Chapter VI Design and DiscussionCombining with the results of survey and discussions from chapter IV, in this chapter, author propose the basic thoughts and methods, and then to design an online teacher professional development platform from the aspect of software engineering field.