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Social Impact in Personalised Virtual Professional Development Pathways
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Owen, Hazel; Whalley, Rick; Dunmill, Merryn; Eccles, Heather – Journal of Educators Online, 2018
This article presents exploratory research into an education-based virtual mentoring provision, the Virtual Professional Learning and Development (VPLD) program, and uses the Elements of Value Pyramid to help frame findings in a way that highlights the participants' (mentors' and mentees') perceived value of working together. Participants were…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Individualized Instruction, Virtual Classrooms, Mentors
The Long Journey: Developing a Model of PLD for the Future
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Owen, Hazel; Dunmill, Merryn – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
This paper presents the longitudinal learning journey of two educators who participated in the Virtual Professional Learning and Development programme (VPLD) between 2010 and 2013. Each participant's story of change describes the process and outcomes of their involvement in a future-focused environment of virtual mentorship supported by a tailored…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Mentors, Teacher Attitudes
Putting the PLE into PLD: Virtual Professional Learning and Development
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Owen, Hazel – Journal of Educators Online, 2014
The range of affordances that a virtual environment offers can provide opportunities for more formal Professional Learning and Development (PLD) that has flexibility of choice, time and approach for educators. It was this potential that inspired the design of the Virtual Professional Learning and Development (VPLD) program that was instigated in…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Online Courses, Faculty Development, Virtual Classrooms