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Do Teachers e-Learning Needs Differentiate Among Countries?
(Tuncay, Nazime.) |
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- The e-learning training needs of people are very important to consider in a society that promotes lifelong learning, in order to improve the educational status of people and to make them capable of meeting the current demands of the dynamic environments in which they operate during their everyday activities, regardless of the fields they activate in. To have more successful students, a country should have more successful teachers, and training programs should be delivered to teachers according to their needs. A critical review of literature is carried out with the aim of developing a more practical framework for achieving success in e-learning. Further more, to capture data about K-12 teachers e-learning training needs, a questionnaire, consisting of 62 items, was created by the authors and distributed online and on paper. The online questionnaire, which was posted on Surveymonkey.com, and the paper questionnaire were distributed in four countries (England, Romania, Turkey and Cyprus), in three languages (English, Romanian, and Turkish). 600 paper questionnaires were distributed in schools without computer access and in total; it was distributed to over 2000 K-12 teachers. A total of 621 questionnaires were filled in 3 months. Responses revealed that schools socio-economic backgrounds and schools racial expectations were two factors that contribute to the teachers' e-learning gap. Overall result was that 90% of the participant teachers have access to the internet both at home and at school and 57.3% of these preferred "self study". In conclusion, researchers found out that "online self learning" programs would be the best way to improve K-12 teachers' e-learning training needs. Responses on questionnaire differed significantly based upon countries. Teachers are key personnel in the integration of computers in instructional situations and in the adoption of all other innovations in schools Hence, further studies of the researchers would include implementation of "online self learning programs".
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EOL-1719
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NEU Grand LibraryOnline (LB1027 .D6 2009)
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