1. Save Time
Scheduling and implementing online learning is much less time-consuming than planning and running inservice days and staff meetings.
2. Save Money
Eliminate travel expenses, registration costs, consultant fees, and other expenses associated with seminars and on-site meetings. And online learning can save school districts the expense of hiring substitute teachers.
3. Get CEU and College Credit
Online learning opportunities offer a way to earn professional development clock hours, which can be applied toward CEU or college credit.
4. Add Flexibility
You can access online learning opportunities anytime, any place you have access to the Internet, from the comfort of your own home and even during summer and holiday breaks.
5. Increase Accountability
Online learning can be even more accountable than traditional professional development because assignments, assessment scores, activities, course completions, and participant progress can be monitored online.
6. Bring Education Theory to Life
When online learning experiences take full advantage of the interactivity and multimedia power of the Internet, they can engage you with videotaped classroom scenes, interviews, and online demonstrations of concepts. This wide variety of activity and question formats offers a more valuable learning experience than a typical workshop or textbook-based courses.
7. Promote Transference of Learning to the Workplace
Instead of one-shot workshops, you can use the flexibility and lower costs of online learning to follow-up on learning activities with support that leads to implementation of new practices.
8. Create Excitement About Learning
The interactivity and multimedia delivery of online professional development makes learning more engaging and fun!