eLearning and Initial Teacher Education Programs: Insights from the Teaching Teachers for the Future Project
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Glenn Finger, Griffith University, Australia ; Romina Jamieson-Proctor, University of Southern Queensland, Australia ; Peter Grimbeek, Independent Consultant, Australia
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, in Las Vegas, NV, USA ISBN 978-1-939797-05-6 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), San Diego, CA
Abstract
This paper argues that initial teacher education programs (ITE) which build the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) (Mishra & Koehler, 2006) confidence and capabilities of future teachers is critical in enabling effective design and implementation of eLearning for school students. Insights are provided through drawing upon selected research and evaluation findings from the Teaching Teachers for the Future (TTF) Project involving all HEIs which provide ITE programs in Australia. The TTF Project, a 15 month long, $8 million project was funded by the Australian Government’s ICT Innovation Fund and aimed to develop the ICT capabilities of future teachers. Findings from the TTF Project indicate that the TPACK conceptualisation used to guide the project, and the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership’s ICT Elaborations for Graduate Teacher Standards (AITSL, 2011a) can inform the design of ITE programs in preparing future teachers for using ICT to support tea
Citation
Finger, G., Jamieson-Proctor, R. & Grimbeek, P. (2013). eLearning and Initial Teacher Education Programs: Insights from the Teaching Teachers for the Future Project. In T. Bastiaens & G. Marks (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2013--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 1882-1891). Las Vegas, NV, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 28, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/115150/.
© 2013 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
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