ABSTRACT
This chapter describes comprehensive research conducted since 2008 to determine Australian teachers' necessary and preferred modes of capacity building, including online professional learning, to support students' wellbeing in relation to bullying. Teachers and school executive teams are often required to address health and wellbeing issues affecting students' learning issues that may have traditionally been considered the domain of families. The impact of peer bullying on students' social and emotional wellbeing, and its recent emergence in cyber contexts, presents school staff with particularly complex and difficult issues. There is a clear need for targeted and responsive online professional learning resources for school staff to build and maintain relevant knowledge and skills to meet the needs of children and young people, particularly in relation to bullying and cyberbullying. Online learning environments offer dynamic and flexible opportunities for learning and have garnered much interest from educators and other adult learners as a place to meet their spontaneous and/or sustained learning needs.
