Integrating Technological Innovations to Enhance the Teaching-Learning Process

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Author(s): Judi Simmons Estes (Park University, USA), Amber Dailey-Hebert (Park University, USA)and Dong Hwa Choi (Park University, USA)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 28
Source title: Emerging Tools and Applications of Virtual Reality in Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Dong Hwa Choi (Park University, USA), Amber Dailey-Hebert (Park University, USA)and Judi Simmons Estes (Park University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9837-6.ch013

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Virtual Learning Environments

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Virtual reality is one of the latest technologies to be integrated into the teaching-learning process and it holds significant potential to enhance instructional processes and impact student learning. Historically, technology integration for instruction has been initiated primarily within institutions of higher education, while K-12 integration has been gradual to become part of mainstream education. Likewise, as teachers play a pivotal role in the process of technology integration, it is imperative to train teachers not only in computer literacy, but also in the requisite technological knowledge and skills needed to use technology in instruction. Furthermore, such training should be accompanied by support for teachers in developing a pedagogy and self-efficacy for technology integration. Self-efficacy can also serve as a foundation of motivation for teachers to keep abreast of new technologies and to determine how and when to use such emergent tools to enhance instruction.

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