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one page on tips for participating in group work online

Spring 2014 Professional Development catalog from The Learning Studio led by Debra Zabloudil out of Chicago

Traditional formats in Word or PDF are still preferred even by advertising and marketing executives

An interesting infographic on female millennials and their views of diversity, role model gap, work-life strategy, global careers, new era of talent, career confident, feedback culture, financially empowered.

Research brief that looks at online learning in higher education from the perspectives of employers and community college students. 2013. Notes that community colleges serve nearly 1/2 the nation's undergraduate students. Overwhelming majority is first-generation college students. Online educ is flexible and opens up study options. But many cc students are underprepared for college.

Leadership paper published by Harvard Business Press, 2015

PD evaluation for teachers developed by M. Bruce Haslam, Policy Study Associates, Washington, DC, for the National Staff Development Council, January 2010

Matrix for evaluating PD from ND Title 1 Program Improvement Workshop at NCREL's annual meeting in 2007. Thomas R. Guskey's handout inspired matrix

Evaluating Professional Development: A Framework for Adult Education, A publication of Building Professional Development Partnerships for Adult Educators Project, May 1997

has interesting stats on training and finding skilled employees, up to 1/3 of employees are contingent workers, 2013

explanation of Pomodoro technique by Francesco Cirillo in 2006.

perfect exploration by Felix Wu of how big data threats come down to three concerns: surveillance, disclosure, and discrimination.

Great resource for length on Facebook to Twitter to LinkedIn to blog posts to podcasts to videos

A self-coaching exercise offered by Shana Montesol Johnson as an alternative to a five year career plan.

ALISON MOOC--"With more than 1.2 million unique visitors per month and 250,000 graduates worldwide, Advance Learning Interactive Systems Online (ALISON), founded in 2007, is considered by some the first massive online open course (MOOC). " blog by Ellis Booker, Information Week Education, Excerpt: "Our focus is workplace skills," company CEO Mike Feerick told InformationWeek in a phone interview. Indeed, ALISON started with two globally in-demand skills: English and IT literacy, the latter in the form of ABC IT, a 15- to 20-hour training suite that remains the site's most popular course." Excerpt: "Employers don't care where you found those skills or how much you paid for them," he insists. Rather, employers want one thing: Verified competency. One service ALISON offers is tests for prospective hires that employers can administer to check the competence of job applicants who come with ALISON certificates. For a small fee, students can purchase an ALISON certificate after successfully completing a course, as a PDF, paper parchment or framed parchment."

Labels women who seek online learning options, usually more traditional, university based courses and explains their motivations for learning online. Study is from 2001 but still has merit.

Next to last page has good graphic of pd model they are using.

I am collecting models of professional development processes as research for our about us process re-design

Connected Educator partnered with the USDOE for Connected Educator month. This is the report on the results of that month. This site has the pdf of the report and the Appendix with the core elelment details.

Report on Connected Educator Month: partnership with Connected Educators and USDOE

interesting report showing that revenues are going down dramatically for elearning platforms and packaged content while remaining constant for services or even up a little

excellent explanation by Tom Vander Ark on why parent-managed learner profiles are becoming more important all the time for young people.  Is the corollary true for adults owning their learning in portable, digital carry-alongs for sharing with potential employers, etc.