Online professional learning (PL) is widely used to help rural teachers overcome geographical isolation and access quality teacher professional learning. Although there are a handful of studies examining the effectiveness of online PL, much of the existing research includes rural teachers without specifically focusing on what effective online PL means for them. In particular, the research offers limited guidelines on designing effective large-scale online PL programs for rural teachers. Therefore, this study captures the experiences of rural teachers with a large-scale online PL program for teaching science and engineering in their contexts and suggests guidelines for designing effective online PL in STEM for rural teachers.
Boz, T., Lee, M. J., Macias, M., Summers, R., Zaman, M., Inouye, M., Robinson, J., & Hammack, R. (2025). Large-scale online science and engineering professional learning for rural elementary teachers. Research in Science Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-025-10300-x