Section archive - ICT & Teaching

The authors investigated the effectiveness and impacts of process prompts on students’ learning and computer self-efficacy within the technology-enabled project-based learning (PBL) context in an undergraduate educational technology course. The participants were thirty-five prospective teachers enrolled in a Web-Based Instruction for English Language Teaching (ELT) course. Students’ interviews and reflections revealed that process prompts were important in facilitating problem-solving efforts. The surveys showed significant gains on students’ computer self-efficacy after the completion of technology-enabled PBL.

The authors evaluate the Team-Taught Cohort Model for preparing pre-service teachers to use technology in their classrooms. This model provides pre-service teachers with an opportunity to integrate technology into a unit based on strong educational theory and current research. The model also provides the pre-service teachers an opportunity to spend quality time in a middle or high school classroom with a mentor teacher while being supported and coached by a team of university faculty members in a technology-rich environment. Results indicate that the Team-Taught Cohort Model is successful in increasing pre-service teachers’ competence and confidence in technology integration in the classroom.

This article reports on the progress made towards implementing a pre-service education course in instructional media to be implemented in at all four Colleges of Education in Namibia. The author describes her work revision on it to include ICTs and technology integration.

The authors draw illustrative findings from a study of high school English teachers during the implementation of an ubiquitous mobile learning innovation. The authors use multiple profiles generated from the Concerns-Based Adoption Model to exemplify how they identified and supported teachers’ diminishing and increasing operational and pedagogical issues through an iterative co-generated action-planning programme.