Large-scale Online Science and Engineering Professional Learning for Rural Elementary Teachers

Authors

• Tugba Boz, University of North DakotaFollow
• Min Jung Lee, University of North DakotaFollow
• Meghan Macias
• Ryan Summers, University of North DakotaFollow
• Maria ZamanFollow
• Martha Inouye
• Julie Robinson, University of North DakotaFollow
• Rebekah Hammack

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-14-2025

Publication Title

Research in Science Education

Volume

56

Abstract

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.

First Page

891

Last Page

914

DOI

10.1007/s11165-025-10300-x

ISSN

1573-1898

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Tugba Boz, Min Jung Lee, Meghan Macias, et al.. "Large-scale Online Science and Engineering Professional Learning for Rural Elementary Teachers" (2025). Education, Health & Behavior Studies Faculty Publications. 110.
https://commons.und.edu/ehb-fac/110