Exploring the influential factors of online professional learning completion of college teachers from the Global South in an international training program

Wang, Chao1,2; Hu, Xiao1

2025

10.1016/j.iheduc.2024.100963

INTERNET AND HIGHER EDUCATION   影响因子和分区

1096-7516

1873-5525

Online courses emerged as an important mode for large-scale cross-national teachers' professional learning. However, with most previous research on teacher online professional learning (TOPL) focusing on resource-rich and technology-advanced regions, little attention has been paid to the factors influencing the online learning completion of college teachers in Global South contexts. This study aimed to explore the facilitators and inhibitors of this population's online learning completion in a cross-country program. In seven courses, individual, institutional, and country-level data of 3529 teacher-learners from 99 countries were collected. Forty-two learners were further interviewed. We adopted hierarchical linear modeling to analyze the nested relationships among the individual/institutional/country-level factors and course completion. Results revealed several significant associations between individual/institutional/country-level variables and course completion, as well as several moderation effects. Interviews complemented the analytics results. This study uncovers influential factors of TOPL in Global South contexts and provides practical implications for college teachers' online professional learning.

College teachers Online professional learning The global south context Facilitators and inhibitors Cross-country program

SSCI

英语

其他

Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong S.A.R., China[HKU 17621123]

Education & Educational Research

Education & Educational Research

WOS:001301168800001

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC

Web of Science

1.Univ Hong Kong, Fac Educ, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
2.Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Ctr Higher Educ Res, Shenzhen, Guangdong, Peoples R China

Wang, Chao,Hu, Xiao. Exploring the influential factors of online professional learning completion of college teachers from the Global South in an international training program[J]. INTERNET AND HIGHER EDUCATION,2025,64.

Wang, Chao,&Hu, Xiao.(2025).Exploring the influential factors of online professional learning completion of college teachers from the Global South in an international training program.INTERNET AND HIGHER EDUCATION,64.

Wang, Chao,et al."Exploring the influential factors of online professional learning completion of college teachers from the Global South in an international training program".INTERNET AND HIGHER EDUCATION 64(2025).