Social capital elements as design levers for online teacher professional development

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 2 studies (1 causal, 1 design), q2 · 0 of 2 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

The article frames teacher collaboration in online asynchronous PD through social capital mechanisms. It identifies social capital elements that shape teachers' collaborative experience: tie quality, depth of interaction, and access to expertise. The design combines these mechanisms with essential teacher learning and PD characteristics so that isolated teachers can participate and build knowledge together. The article describes positive beliefs related to the social capital elements of tie quality, depth of interaction, and access to expertise, indicating these elements were perceptible supports in the course.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Course structures that support tie quality, depth of interaction, and access to expertise among participating teachers

Constraints

• Applied to a small number of teachers in a science PD context

Target Learners

• Science teachers

Learning Goals

• Collaborative knowledge building and access to expertise in professional development

Claims

• High Satisfaction Social Capital Online Asynchronous Pd [+M]
• The editorial reports an online teacher professional development intervention combining social capital mechanisms and automated scaffolds succeeded, with transactivity as a process indicator [+W]

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• Ten-module AI-guided asynchronous PD program on proportional reasoning with eight designed AI-mediated mechanisms

Examples

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Key Sources

• Yoon, S.A., Miller, K., Richman, T., Wendel, D., Schoenfeld, I., Anderson, E., & Shim, J. (2020). Encouraging collaboration and building Community in Online Asynchronous Professional Development: designing for social capital. Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn 15, 351–371. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-020-09326-2

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Field	Value
type	design
id	social-capital-elements-online-pd-framework
title	Social capital elements as design levers for online teacher professional development
description	The article frames teacher collaboration in online asynchronous PD through social capital mechanisms.
status	review
generated	by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-18
trust	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
sources	1 — yoon-2020

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