Ed. Schools Lag Behind in Virtual-Teacher Training
University of Central Florida education majors (left to right) Mindy Dellinger, Kris Palvisak, and Kyler Shelton are in virtual teaching internships to learn the skills necessary to teach online-only courses.
—Hilda M. Perez for Education Week
Virtual Education Experts Say Graduate Programs to Train Online Teachers Make the Most Sense, at Least for Now
As the youngest faculty member in the school of education technology at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Leanna Archambault was quickly tapped as the most "qualified" to teach one of its first online courses.
Not that she was.
"I was like, 'How do I do this?'" recalled Ms. Archambault, a nontenured instructor at the university at the time. "It was really like building the plane while...
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