Realising the potential of online teacher development courses to improve student learning — a brief for eLearning providers

Power, Tom; Rahman, Hafiz and Stevenson, Jacqueline (2024). Realising the potential of online teacher development courses to improve student learning — a brief for eLearning providers. CSGD Policy Brief #4. The Open University.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.00096833

Abstract

The Government of Bangladesh and Aspire to Innovate (a2i) are making substantial investments in blended learning for teacher professional development (TPD) through the national eLearning platform ‘Mukto Paath’. This policy brief explores research evidence of primary-level teachers’ participation in one such course—Anonde Gonit Shikhi (AGS) by the Directorate of Primary Education—and makes evidence-based recommendations to increase the proportion of teachers and schools realising the potential benefits on teaching and learning.

Some teachers — with encouragement from their head-teacher and help from other teachers in the school—regularly put the AGS activities into practice and reported improved experiences of teaching and learning. However, many teachers lacked such encouragement and support at school and did not use the activities regularly or experience the same benefits. To realise greater impact, course designers should emphasise the importance of practical implementation in schools—and should illustrate how head teachers and teachers can work together to support this.

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