edWeb Releases 2022 Professional Learning Survey Results

2022 Survey

edWeb.net has just released results for its annual 2022 Teacher Professional Learning Survey with five years of data benchmarking teachers’ attitudes and experiences with professional learning.

The 2022 survey shows the continued value of online professional learning, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, when virtual collaboration, learning, and support has been more critical than ever.

Key takeaways from edWeb teachers:

  • Webinars are the professional learning activity that helps them improve the most.
  • It’s most important that the content is current and relevant, that they can participate on their own time, and that the programs are free.
  • 60% are using their edWeb CE certificates for their school and district PD hours.
  • 45% are using edWeb CE certificates to renew their state teacher’s license.
  • 57% report that professional learning on edWeb impacts their students’ learning.
  • 50% share their learning with colleagues, and it impacts their students’ learning.
  • 32% report that edWeb has had a schoolwide impact on student learning.

Educators provided over 1,100 comments as part of the survey that provide a deeper understanding of educators’ needs. The comments are overwhelmingly positive and thankful for our free service that provides the kind of high-quality, online professional learning they need and CE certificates for their PD hours: “During the pandemic, edWeb was a blessing to enable me to be connected to the learning community and for professional development. It also helped us to implement strategies to fill in gaps of learning students faced due to virtual classes. Thank you Team edWeb!!!”

Lisa Schmucki, the founder and CEO of edWeb.net, commented, “Throughout the pandemic, we’ve learned more than ever that we are better together. Virtual professional learning has made open and inclusive collaboration and support possible through the most challenging times education has faced. Our annual survey helps us keep up with current trends and needs in fast-changing times.”

The survey was conducted in early February 2022. It was sent via email to 125,000 edWeb teacher members and received 1,245 replies, a 1% response rate, with no incentive. The email quantity and response rate are comparable to past years.

Download the complete 2022 Teacher Professional Learning Survey.