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Gopal, Vivek – Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
India as a country has been the proponent of the Gurukul (a kind of residential school for select students) system where the 'guru-shishya' (Master - Student) method of teaching was adopted. Ever since, educational pedagogy has undergone a revolution which has primarily been technology driven with ICT at its forefront. IT firms are moving towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Information Technology, Educational Change
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Joubert, Jody; Callaghan, Ronel; Engelbrecht, Johann – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
Lesson study (LS) is a form of professional development, with a strong foundation in mathematics education, based on teachers collaborating to design lessons. This collaboration, however, can be challenging for isolated teachers. In 2017, a course was presented at the university to train 52 teachers from all over South Africa as well as Botswana…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration
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Bellard, Breshanica – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2018
Professionals responsible for the delivery of education and training using technology systems and platforms can facilitate complex learning through application of relevant strategies, principles and theories that support how learners learn and that support how curriculum should be designed in a technology based learning environment. Technological…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Learning, Blended Learning, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Donnelly, Roisin; Maguire, Terry – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2020
Digital Badge design and practice at a national level is a relatively new field of scrutiny and this study reports on a sector-wide initiative for building digital capacity with the design, and implementation of an ecosystem of 15 open courses in teaching and learning with digital badges to recognise the professional development of teachers in…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Technological Literacy, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
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Sartor, Valerie – English Teaching Forum, 2020
Today, more than ever before, English-language educators recognize the importance of using digital resources to teach students in a variety of modalities. Current circumstances have caused schools, universities, institutes, and colleges all over the world to rethink the way they teach and learn. Teaching with technology has suddenly evolved from a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Korstange, Ryan; Rust, Dianna Z.; Brinthaupt, Tom – Journal of Faculty Development, 2019
The success of the first-year experience (FYE) course hangs on the effectiveness of the individual faculty members who are given the task of educating first-year students in a particularly important developmental period. This article applies a flipped classroom strategy for kickstarting meaningful classroom discussion in Mathematics Education to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, Program Effectiveness, First Year Seminars
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Niess, Margaret L.; Roschelle, Jeremy – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2018
Mathematics teacher educators are faced with designing teacher in-service professional development experiences for developing and transforming Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) towards integrating digital technologies as mathematics learning tools. Online environments provide opportunities to a broad range of teachers, yet, the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Educators, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Dana Ruggiero; Jeffrey D. Boehm – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2015
In the following design case, Learning Technologists (LT's) charged with developing a program for distance and blended learning describe the creation of an online module for staff development that helps lecturers to develop their online teaching skills. Using the Community of Inquiry Framework, the LT's structured an environment in which staff…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Distance Education, Blended Learning, Communities of Practice
Childre, Amy L. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2014
The shortage of highly qualified special educators is most pronounced in rural schools serving populations characterized by poverty, low achievement, disability, and cultural diversity. The result is often untrained teachers serving students with the greatest education needs. This article describes efforts by a university in rural middle Georgia…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Qualifications, Rural Schools, Alternative Teacher Certification