Issues and Challenges of Providing Online Inservice Teacher Training: Korea's experience

To meet the need for flexible and interactive teacher training, the Korean government created a Cyber Teacher Training Center (CTTC) in the summer of 1997. The CTTC project developed a software platform for managing online inservice teacher training, eleven general training courses, with plans to add more courses each year. This article examines the needs met through the introduction of online inservice teacher training and the strategies that have been employed in the process. This paper also analyzes the major impacts of online teacher training and looks at the challenges facing online inservice teacher training in the coming years.

Minority Issues in Special Education: A Principal-Mediated Inservice Program for Teachers

This article reports the results of an evaluation of a principal-mediated inservice teacher training program on minority issues in special education. Within the past 10 years, multicultural and minority issues have emerged as a major concern in the special education field. The profession has responded to these issues with numerous personnel preparation activities, including topical conferences and improvements in university training programs at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Perhaps least represented has been inservice educational programs for teachers currently serving in the classroom. This article describes (a) the inservice training program (content, procedures, media, etc. J developed at the University of Kansas for application to local building-level inservice activities, and (b) the results of an evaluation of its application. Trainee satisfaction with the program was assessed and issues remaining for further research and development are discussed.