A series of online teacher professional development courses—with content developed by WestEd—is using an open-source MOOC (massively open online courses) platform to facilitate professional learning.

MOOCs have a very large to unlimited enrollment, often achieved by employing automated assessments.

States this EdSurge blog post:

“The [Pepper] platform features professional development content developed by WestEd…. In addition to the self-paced professional development material, Pepper enables portfolio development, and access to community discussions. PSG [Consulting Group] also customized the platform to enable teachers to find and connect with others in the system and create ‘chunks’ of content that other users can share and rate according to the metrics of quality, engagement and applicability.”