Designing effective electronic distance education programs for K-12 staff development.

In the Carnegie report A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century, the Task Force on Teaching as a Profession (1986) states that the mass education system of the twentieth century will not succeed in meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century: "Upon graduation from preparation programs, teachers will not bring to the classroom all the teaching strategies and skills necessary to meet the needs of their students in a global society. Teachers will need to reevaluate constantly their teaching strategies and the learning styles of their students to make the modifications ne