Check out PD facilitation principles and guide. 

CoVAA^PD is a web-based collaborative video annotation and analytics environment for enhancing blended teacher professional development (PD) in PE. It was developed to address the constraints of needing a mentor to be physically present for every lesson observation/post-lesson feedback session and the logistical challenge of coordinating teaching/lesson schedules with other teachers for undertaking collaborative practitioner reflection beyond one pair of teacher-mentor.

CoVAA^PD combines three approaches to teacher professional development:

1. integrating collaborative learning in professional development for reflective practice
2. the use of video annotation tools
3. leveraging learning analytics

Features of the CoVAA^PD system

• A space for teachers to upload videos (video content pages)
• Timepoint-based annotations for focused and collaborative discussions
• Discussions guided by pedagogical scaffolds/tags
• Archived records of annotations/ discussions
• Teacher dashboard providing feedback of discussions
• Lesson activity timer

1. Enhances teachers’ collaborative practitioner reflection with general trends of usefulness of CoVAA^PD
2. Provides an in-depth perspective on teachers/mentors’ perceptions, experiences and accounts of using CoVAA^PD.

 Related Links

• Research Brief Series, No. 21-014, “CoVAAPD for enhancing teacher professional development in physical education”
• PD facilitation principles and guide

CoVAA, a prior version of this project, was implemented with secondary school students. For more information:

• Knowledge Resource Bank article in 2018 on “CoVAA: Self-Directed and Engaged Learners Through Collaborative Video”

 Further Readings

Chian, L. K. Z., Phan, J., Koh, E., Jonathan, C., Tay, S. H., Tan, J. P-L. & Kok, S. H. (2021, June 7-10). A Collaborative Video Annotation and Analytics Environment for Teacher Professional Development (CoVAAPD) in Physical Education [Abstract]. In Book of Abstracts: 2021 AIESEP Scientific Conference (pp. 275). University of Alberta, McGill University. 

Tan, J. P.-L., Koh, E., Noriff Elyn Mohamed Ariffin, Teo, E. Z., Tay, S. H., & Shyam Singh. (2018). A collaborative video annotation and analytics environment (CoVAA) intervention: User experiences and reflections of teacher-practitioners. In J. C. Yang, M. Chang, L.-H. Wong & M. M. T. Rodrigo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE) 2018 (pp. 706-714). Manila, Philippines: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE). 

 Research Projects

The following projects are associated with CoVAA^PD:

Development and Use of a Web-Based Collaborative Video Annotation and Analytics Environment to Enhance Blended Teacher Professional Development (CoVAAPD) in Physical Education

Using a Collaborative Video Annotation and Analytics Environment (CoVAA) to Enhance Flipped Classroom Pedagogical Practice and Foster Students’ Conceptual Understanding, Social Knowledge Construction and Self-Regulated Learning

Research Team

Acknowledgements

CoVAA^PD was funded by Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) under the MOE Academies Funding Programme (project no. AFD 07/17 TPL) and administered by National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Singapore MOE and NIE.

This knowledge resource was written by Ms Christin Jonathan and Dr Elizabeth Koh, with input from Ms Monica Lim and Dr Lynn Chiam as of 22 April 2022.