scholarly journals IF IT AIN'T BROKE, IMPROVE IT: THOUGHTS ON ENGAGING EDUCATION FOR US ALL

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven W. Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Educational Professionals ◽  
Hybrid Technologies ◽  
Technology Group ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Learning With Technology ◽  
Do So

One of the continuing challenges of education is enabling those who strive to improve teaching, learning, and research to take advantage of the too-rapidly-changing new environment created by telecommunications and information technologies. To do so, educational professionals should engage in lifelong professional development and use new hybrid technologies to help build community and support collaboration. This paper explores the issues of technology and professional development from the frame of reference of my work with hundreds of colleges that have benefited from the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group (TLT Group), an organization whose mission is to motivate and enable institutions and individuals to improve teaching and learning with technology, while helping them cope with change. This article discusses challenges that higher education faces: creating visions worth working toward; developing strategies and tools for achieving intermediate goals; and the importance of breaking taboos along the way.

scholarly journals Use of ICT in Teacher Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mr. Parmanand Barodiya ◽  
Mr. Saurveer Singh ◽  
Mrs. Anupam Choudhary
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Integration Of Technology ◽  
Teacher Education Institution ◽  
Do So

Professional development to incorporate ICTs into teaching and learning is an ongoing process. Teacher education curriculum needs to update this knowledge and skills as the school curriculum change. The teachers need to learn to teach with digital technologies, even though many of them have not been taught to do so. The aim of teacher training in this regard can be either teacher education in ICTs or teacher education through ICTs. A teacher‘s professional development is central to the overall change process in education. In planning the integration of technology in Teacher education it is important for teacher education, Institution to understand the knowledge and skills necessary for teachers to effectively use ICT in their instructions. Teachers need technical assistance to use and maintain technology. In this paper discuses to study of Teacher education, to know the Significance of ICT in teacher education and to provide the some Suggestions of teacher education.

scholarly journals Information technologies inside and outside the classroom

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andra Oneci ◽  
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Maria-Magdalena Joița ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Causal Reasoning ◽  
Concept Formation ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Problem Solvers ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Individualize Education

Technology is a means of accomplishing a task mainly by using technical processes, methods, or knowledge.The importance of technology in connection with any type of development is widely recognized, especially having considering nowadays’ worldwide Covid-19 context.The passage from standardized to digitalized teaching-learning process hasn’t been easy. Information technology and educational technology are now extensively being used in schools and refer to a wide multitude of teaching-and-learning–related software and hardware used during the lessons. Learning becomes effective when the students are actively engaged, are collaborating with one another, are in charge of their learning process, become critical thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Scientific thinking appears when thinking about the content of science and the set of reasoning processes that permeate the field of science: induction, deduction, experimental design, causal reasoning, concept formation, hypothesis testing, and so on, are combined. Simultaneously, teachers continue their lifelong learning process online, design digital lessons, gamify lessons, obtain real time results, are part of the staffroom at school and also part of a larger, more diverse, virtual staffroom. In conclusion, the goal of using technology inside and outside the classroom is perceived as a way to individualize education and to develop students’ competences and cognitive skills.

scholarly journals Preliminary Exploration of Professional Development Instrument for Lecturers in Malaysia

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-91
Author(s):  
Ahmad Faizuddin ◽  
Tajulashikin Jumahat ◽  
Mohamad Sahari Nordin
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Learning Behaviour ◽  
Knowledge Enhancement ◽  
Learning Programs ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Right

Professional development is crucial for organization’s success to improve teaching-learning programs at higher learning education institutions. Many countries have developed various programs for lecturer training and development. However, there are barriers preventing them from taking the opportunities, especially finding the right time and the appropriate programs. This study explored the construct of lecturers’ professional development in teaching and learning after attending various trainings and workshops. The main objective of this study is to identify the underlying factor of the instrument based on Kirkpatrick’s Four Level Evaluation Framework namely reaction, learning, behaviour, and results. Using an 18-item instrument developed for an explorative inquiry, the present study measured and analysed responses from 100 higher education lecturers from randomly selected Public Higher Learning Institution, Private Higher Learning Institution, and Malaysia Technical University Network. Applying Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) to identify the underlying dimensions of the instrument, this study suggested that lecturer’s professional development in teaching and learning is a one-dimension construct consisting of integrated dimensions of knowledge enhancement, knowledge relevancy, skills improvement, and skills practice.

Honors International Faculty Learning Online (HIFLO 2020): A model for honors online professional development

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
John Zubizarreta ◽  
Beata Jones ◽  
Marca Wolfensberger
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Talent Development ◽  
Collaborative Group ◽  
International Faculty ◽  
Christian University ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Honors Education ◽  
Faculty Learning ◽  
Teaching Learning

The Spring of 2020 brought many disruptions to our professional and personal lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic that forced worldwide mid-semester campus closures; pivoting of traditional, face-to-face classes to remote teaching and learning; and postponements or cancellations of conferences, workshops, and other professional development events. One example of the breakdown of scheduled opportunities for us as honors colleagues to gather in-person to enhance our practices and strengthen our community was the cancellation of the 2020 International Conference on Talent Development and Honors Education in Groningen, the Netherlands, originally slated for June 10-12  but moved to  June 16-18, 2021. Immediately following the 2020 conference, we (the authors) had planned to offer the fifth Honors International Faculty Institute (HIFI), an international and highly interactive occasion for honors and talent development teachers, researchers, and leaders to engage in presentations, experiential activities, place-as-text explorations, collaborative group work, reflective exercises, and showcases designed to improve teaching, learning, and programming in honors. Suddenly, the coronavirus upended our world, and we had to reimagine the institute that we had previously organized four times alternately at Hanze University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands) and Texas Christian University (USA). Putting aside the disappointment of the moment and recognizing the value of coming up with an alternative to HIFI that would ensure the safety and health of our honors colleagues, we decided to create a fully online version with free registration to encourage participation and create resources accessible to all members of our international community. We wanted to highlight the challenges of how all of us unexpectedly had to pivot to remote teaching and learning as the global pandemic intensified, but we also wanted to share information, experiences, and models that could open new avenues for  operationalizing online honors education more generally beyond the COVID-19 crisis. We wanted, in other words, to explore how honors pedagogy could (and maybe should) be adapted to the increasingly online world of primary, secondary, and higher education. Thus, HIFLO 2020 was born! HIFLO stands for Honours International Faculty Learning Online.

Reshaping Human Capital Formation Through Digitalization

2018 ◽  
pp. 52-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sulaiman Olusegun Atiku
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Capital Formation ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Intellectual Assets ◽  
Learning Platforms ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Capital Development

This chapter focuses on reshaping intellectual capital formation via electronic-based learning platforms. A critical examination of the literature on human capital development through e-learning was conducted and it was found that digitalization enhances teaching / learning processes and activities, rather than rendering the traditional methods obsolete. The commonly used learning management systems are Blackboard, Class-Front and WebCT. With various virtual learning platforms such as game-based learning, mobile learning, social learning, and virtual world learning, the teaching and learning environments are being extended. The evolution of high levels of sophisticated information technologies across the globe has tremendously improved intellectual capital formation through digital collaboration, and interactions. Therefore, it takes continuous update of intellectual assets through digitized processes to keep abreast of vast innovations and technical know-how.

scholarly journals Productive, Structural and Dynamic Study of the Concept of Sustainability in the Educational Field

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio-Manuel Rodríguez-García ◽  
Jesús López Belmonte ◽  
Miriam Agreda Montoro ◽  
Antonio-José Moreno-Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Holistic Vision ◽  
Educational Field ◽  
The Web ◽  
Do So

Sustainable education is currently booming in the teaching and learning processes, although it is not without complexity, due to its various dimensions and the evolution it has undergone to date. The objective of this research is to establish a mapping and scientific evolution of the term “sustainability” in education in the Web of Science database. To do so, a bibliometrical method has been applied, through the analysis of the performance of the scientific production and the evolution of the structure and dynamism of sustainability in education, by means of an analysis of co-words. The total number of references analyzed, after following a debugging process, was 9441. The results show the boom of sustainability in education in recent times, with a great impact on research related to attitudes and sustainability. It can be concluded that a large part of the studies analyzed are of a descriptive nature, with a decrease in the number of exploratory studies, which can give a holistic vision to the subject matter presented, especially regarding the development of the curriculum and the teaching-learning process.

scholarly journals Realities of Teachers' Professional Development in Community Campuses of Tribhuvan University

NUTA Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Nani Babu Ghimire
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Training Time ◽  
Teacher Professional ◽  
Teachers Professional Development ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Teachers Training

Teacher professional development (TPD) is the modern aspect of teaching learning process. To do effective teaching, the teacher should be trained, excellent as well as up-date according to the change of time. The main purpose of this paper is to explore realities of the teachers’ professional development of the teachers in community campuses of Tribhuvan University (TU). There is great importance of TPD in the teachers of the community campuses since it helps the teacher to develop various kinds of professional skills, knowledge, new techniques and modern technology of teaching. Similarly, there is the great role of TU for the TPD of the teachers of community campuses. As the affiliation university it should organize subject wise teachers’ training time and again. Similarly, it should hold seminar, workshop and conference on the burning issues of teaching and learning. Teachers’ professional development is the demand of the present time and promoting teachers’ capacity is the most important aspect of the quality education. This article is based on the theme of the mini research which is approved by University Grants Commission (UGC) Nepal.

scholarly journals AthenaCloud: A cloud-based platform for multi-device educational software generation

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 957-981
Author(s):  
Raquel Vásquez-Ramírez ◽  
Maritza Bustos-Lopez ◽  
Giner Alor-Hernández ◽  
Cuauhtémoc Sanchez-Ramírez ◽  
Jorge García-Alcaraz
Keyword(s):  
Operating Systems ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Educational Software ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Smart Tv ◽  
Teaching Learning

Nowadays, information technologies play an important role in education. In education, mobile and TV applications can be considered a support tool in the teaching - learning process, however, relevant and appropriate mobile and TV applications are not always available; teachers can only judge applications by reviews or anecdotes instead of testing them. These reasons lead to the needs and benefits for creating one?s own mobile application for teaching and learning. In this work, we present a cloud-based platform for multi-device educational software generation (smartphones, tablets, Web, Android-based TV boxes, and smart TV devices) called AthenaCloud. It is important to mention that an open cloud-based platform allows teachers to create their own multi-device software by using a personal computer with Internet access. The goal of this platform is to provide a software tool to help educators upload their electronic contents - or use existing contents in an open repository - and package them in the desired setup file for one of the supported devices and operating systems.

Faculty Professional Development in Creating Significant Teaching and Learning Experiences Online

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasemin Gülbahar ◽  
Müge Adnan
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Faculty Professional Development ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Teaching Learning

With faculty members and instructors struggling with the massive transformational challenges stemming from technological innovation, the establishment of a digital teaching-learning culture to ensure that university graduates are ready to join the 21st-century workforce is of the utmost importance. At this juncture, the key players are those who lead the learning experience, namely faculty members and instructors. Being an experienced faculty member and possessing advanced skills of using technology does not necessarily lead to an instructor becoming an effective e-instructor. This chapter, therefore, discusses the changing nature of digital teaching and learning from the perspective of faculty members, within the framework of certain required competencies and skills that every faculty member should possess. The chapter also includes a brief overview of the literature regarding the professional development of faculty members, synchronized with reflections and experiences from an online e-Tutor course.

scholarly journals Rethinking Probability of Eclectic Approach in the Post-Method Era: A Study for Making English Teaching-Learning Effective in Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
Md. Khairul Bashar
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
Effective Pedagogy ◽  
Eclectic Approach ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Do So

For effective English teaching and learning in Bangladesh probability of Eclecticism can be rethought. To do so, the concept of the post-method era is to be implemented. Both Eclecticism and post-method pedagogy put much emphasis on the effectiveness of pedagogy. For a context like Bangladesh, it is very important to formulate culture and context-sensitive need-based pedagogy as there is a lack of effective pedagogy. As the earlier pedagogy failed to produce competent English language users in Bangladesh, it is time to formulate need-based appropriate pedagogy. The present study has been undertaken to consider the existing teaching-learning realities of Bangladesh in the post-method era and suggest effective pedagogy based on the concept of Eclectic Approach.

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