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This volume shows how grassroots educational innovations and technology can be brought together in a fresh approach to human resource development in public social services. It provides an illustration of how teacher-driven innovations can be transformed into learning objects for technology-based professional development.
List of contents
Foreword by Anil Gupta Part I: Building on grassroots educational innovations 1 The idea of grassroots educational innovation 2 Identifying and assessing grassroots educational innovations 3 Organising innovations for dissemination: The “Educational Innovations Bank” and Educational Innovation Fair 4 From dissemination to planned development: Technology-mediated clearinghouse Part II: Grassroots innovations for professional development: Building on technology 5 Models of professional development and “third-space” curriculum 6 Learning in online programmes: The role of “community” 7 Online professional development: Programme design and planning for evaluation 8 Online professional development, behavioural change and organisational learning 9 Approaches to determining effects of online professional development programmes 10 Programme evaluation: Applying latent change models, latent class analysis and latent profile analysis Conclusion: Grassroots innovations and professional standards for teachers
About the author
Vijaya Sherry Chand is Professor, Ravi J. Matthai Centre for Educational Innovation, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India. Prior to joining IIM Ahmedabad in January 1993, he worked for nearly 11 years in rural development. His research interests include educational innovation, educator professional development and educational inequality. He is also Vice President of SRISTI, an organisation dedicated to grassroots innovations.
Samvet Kuril is at the Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University, India. He completed his PhD from IIM Ahmedabad, working on online professional development of public school principals. He is engaged in research on the impact of teacher behaviour (innovative, entrepreneurial, negative) on student outcomes (motivation, self-efficacy, engagement, goal orientation).
Ketan Satish Deshmukh has a PhD in Management (Innovation and Management in Education) from IIM Ahmedabad. His interests lie in the application of technology and large-scale data analytics to issues in K-12 education and the professional development of educators.
Summary
This volume shows how grassroots educational innovations and technology can be brought together in a fresh approach to human resource development in public social services. It provides an illustration of how teacher-driven innovations can be transformed into learning objects for technology-based professional development.
