The Use of Course Management Systems in Pre-Service Teacher Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 196-213
Author(s):  
Damian Maher
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Course Management Systems ◽  
Course Management ◽  
The World ◽  
Pre Service Teacher Education ◽  
Pre Service Teacher ◽  
Education Courses

Course management systems (CMSs) have now become firmly embedded into pre-service teacher education courses in many universities around the world to support teaching and learning. This chapter investigates some of the features of CMSs and how they are being used. In investigating the use of CMSs, some of the theories/models that underpin online and blended learning including social presence, community of practice (CoP), and constructivism are investigated. Some of the key themes that are discussed in this chapter include blended and flipped learning and the use of analytics. Contemporary spaces such as Facebook and Google Classroom are also investigated.

scholarly journals Reflecting From the Margins of Education Faculties: Refiguring the Humanist, and Finding a Space for Story in History

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore Michael Christou
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
Educational History ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
Educational Foundations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pre Service Teacher Education ◽  
Pre Service Teacher ◽  
Education Courses

Notwithstanding their traditional characterization as a foundations subject, history of education courses are marginal in pre-service teacher education. This marginalization is framed here in light of a broader concern for the discipline’s turn away from the humanities.  History of education’s fundamental purpose, it is argued, lies in the exploration of what it means to be human, and how education has historically been shaped by our values, authority, contexts, and norms.  Using stories drawn from literature and memoirs in the teaching of educational history is one means of exploring intersections of education with human cultures and societies across historical contexts.  History is etymologically linked with story telling, and both history and literature share narrative features; the two should not be conflated, however, due to distinctive disciplinary features of history, such as the requirement that any claims to truth require what John Dewey referred to as warranted assertability.Keywords: history of education, teacher education,educational foundations, humanities, literature, historical mindedness, John Dewey.

scholarly journals Contribuições de Paulo Freire na Educação do Campo: formação de professores/as e o ensino de Ciências

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Adalberto Penha de Paula ◽  
Roberto Gonçalves Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Paulo Freire ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The People ◽  
Pre Service Teacher Education ◽  
Pre Service Teacher ◽  
Education Courses

This work presents a reflection on the theoretical and methodological thinking of the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire in the field of the Countryside Education and his contributions to the process of training teachers of Natural Sciences. With this objective, the Pre-service teacher education courses of the Countryside Education at the Federal University of Paraná - Coastal Sector was taken as a reference, from which the historical, philosophical, social and practical principles and influences that led to the implantation of courses of this nature at national public universities are presented. Methodologically, it is a theoretical study, but it also has empirical evidence of educational practices already carried out. Among the final reflections, the importance of Freire’s pedagogy stands out as a counter-hegemonic and guiding pedagogy for the education of the people from the rural areas, waters and forests. Keywords: Freirean thinking. Training of countryside teachers.

Technologizing Teaching

2013 ◽  
pp. 940-962
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Piro ◽  
Nancy Marksbury
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Technology Integration ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Instructional Media ◽  
Technology Instruction ◽  
The World ◽  
Pre Service Teacher Education ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

With the continuing shift of instructional media to digital sources occurring in classrooms around the world, the role of technology instruction in the pre-service curriculum of K-12 teachers is acquiring increasing salience. However, barriers to its inclusion continue to exist. In this chapter we focus on a model of hybridity designed to embed technology instruction into pre-service education. This model is known as the WebQuest and involves the development of a technology-driven learning activity that scaffolds the building of skills in content, pedagogy, and technology integration in pre-service teachers. We discuss data from an exploratory project conducted within a class of graduate pre-service teachers experiencing instruction in creating a WebQuest, and offer some preliminary findings. We place these results within a larger perspective of the CFTK and TPACK frameworks and their application to issues germane to pre-service teacher education.

Future Directions of Course Management Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 307-330
Author(s):  
David Mills
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Course Management Systems ◽  
Course Management ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Mission

Course management systems will unquestionably become one of the most critical enterprise systems in higher education. This is because these systems are more closely aligned with the core mission of teaching and learning than any others. Although these systems have already undergone extraordinary transformation in just a few short years, we are at only the very beginning of the evolutionary process. It is critical that CMS vendors look to the students, educators, and administrators that interact with these systems to identify what new tools and features they need. Consequently, the next stage of innovation in course management systems should therefore focus more on features specifically related to promoting better and more efficient processes for teaching and learning online. More flexible administration options should make these systems easier to maintain. Emerging standards will continue to simplify communications and data exchange with other systems. Finally, the infusion of sound principles of instructional design and learning theory into the tools themselves promises to transform today’s course management systems into tomorrow’s expert systems for teaching and learning.

Frameworks for CMS Design and Evaluation

2011 ◽  
pp. 69-89
Author(s):  
Marwin Britto
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Course Management Systems ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Course Management ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Evaluation Instruments ◽  
The Web

In recent years, institutions of higher education have been migrating to the Web for instruction in record numbers. While Web-based course management systems (CMS) offer many exciting possibilities for instructors and students, their efficacy in terms of teaching and learning has not been thoroughly evaluated. This chapter explores the inherent capabilities and limitations of five models of conceptual frameworks for the design of CMS. The chapter concludes with a discussion of CMS evaluation instruments, advice for instructors transitioning to CMS, and a call for more research in this growing area.

Creating Praxis for Pre-Service Teachers

2021 ◽  
pp. 339-358
Author(s):  
Allison Ivey ◽  
Julie L. Begbie
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Book Clubs ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Methods Courses ◽  
The World ◽  
Pre Service Teacher ◽  
Education Courses

This chapter introduces a storied learning model to create opportunities for praxis within teacher education courses in order to humanize student experiences through book clubs. As many argue that people perceive the world in narrative form, embedding book clubs within methods courses creates opportunities for pre-service teachers to explore and reflect upon unfamiliar experiences, identities, and stories in order to cultivate their critical consciousness. Building off of Bishop's metaphor of mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors, as well as existing literature that discusses the use of book clubs in pre-service teacher methods courses, two case studies are offered highlighting theoretical and practical ways for book clubs to be embedded within methods courses. Case studies are followed by a framework for implementation that considers research in both critical pedagogy and reading comprehension.

Course Management Systems Integration into Course Instruction

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-80
Author(s):  
Jared Keengwe ◽  
Joachim Jack Agamba
Keyword(s):  
Student Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Course Management Systems ◽  
Course Management ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Digital Learners ◽  
E Learning

The emergence of e-learning tools such as Course Management Systems (CMS) offer instructors a practical means to transition from face-to-face to blended delivery modalities that could better serve the needs of digital learners. However, instructors fail to take advantage of such existing modern classroom technologies to provide better learning experiences for their learners. Part of this is due to the lack of a system to determine the underuse of technological tools in a CMS. This project focused on examining the degree of Moodle technology integration into course instruction to support effective student teaching and learning by three instructors. This article stimulates reflections on pedagogical experiences with regard to course content material and instructor practices. The study illustrates that instructors and learners can believe technology is being used well in a CMS course site when the opposite is true.

scholarly journals PRE-SERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION AND COMPREHENSION OF DIDACTIC CONCEPTS. AN EXPERIENCE WITHIN THE MASTER OF SECONDARY EDUCATION TEACHERS

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-18
Author(s):  
Vicente Carrasco-Embuena ◽  
Maria Hernández-Amorós
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Pre Service Teacher Education ◽  
The University ◽  
Pre Service Teacher ◽  
Academic Year

The main purpose of the research was to figure out which was the level of comprehension of the didactic concepts that the students of the Secondary Education Master of the University of Alicante of the academic year 2011/12 had. With this purpose, we have collected the information provided by the answers of 227 students to an ad-hoc-elaborated semi-structured questionnaire whose data have been treated with a quantitative methodology using the SPSS.19 device. The statistic techniques were descriptive, differential and correlational. In this analysis, we take into account the scores obtained by students in variables related to their learning process and their attitudes towards it. The most interesting results prove that the students don’t master the basic didactic concepts in a satisfactory way, there are differences between the levels of comprehension and other variables related to the learning of the concepts and with attitudinal variables of this learning. The research based on these results indicates the need to focus the teaching and learning processes of the Master from a different point of view and combining the strategies which enhance the understanding of these concepts by the students. Key words: concept comprehension, didactic training, pre-service teacher education, Secondary Education Master.

Collaborative Learning in Pre-service/In-service Communities of Practice

2010 ◽  
pp. 228-244
Author(s):  
Ronald J. MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Real World ◽  
School Science ◽  
High School Science ◽  
Data Loggers ◽  
Pre Service Teacher Education ◽  
Science Classes ◽  
Pre Service Teacher ◽  
Education Courses

This chapter will describe how a research-based Community of Practice (CoP) of pre-service and in-service teachers supported teachers’ reflection and learning about how and when to integrate hand-held data loggers. This study suggests that the CoP narrowed the gap between theory (in teacher education) and practice (in the school classroom). Findings will describe effective ways to use hand-held data loggers in senior high school science classes, as well as in pre-service teacher education courses. The possibilities of building even stronger connections between the traditionally theoretical world of teacher education and the real world of school are suggested.

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