Educators’ Expectations on Technology Enhanced Education (TEE): Should and Could they be Modified?

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Author(s): Carlo Giovannella (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy), Claudia Di Lorenzo (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy), Simona Scarsella (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)and Corrado Amedeo Presti (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 13
Source title: Fostering 21st Century Digital Literacy and Technical Competency
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Antonio Cartelli (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2943-1.ch012

Keywords: Digital Literacy / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science

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This paper reports and discusses the result of a survey focused on the perceptions and expectations on TEE applications, conducted among 500 Italian educators (university, high/middle/elementary schools and professionals) involved in on-line or blended learning practices. The expectations are quite basic ones, although may depend on the educational level: support to content sharing and production, communication, assessment and team working are at the top of rank; much less relevant appear to be items like: support to socialization, process design and personalization. Very similar results have been obtained also from a survey among schools’ teachers, novices for TEE, attending a Master in “e-learning: methods, techniques and applications”. The survey was conducted after the conclusion of the first part of the master carried on according to a very traditional distance learning process: content download, self-evaluation tests, tutor assistance upon request. However, after the participation to the second part of the Master, organized as a collaborative, design inspired P3BL (problem, project and process based learning) experience, their opinions on TEE changed in a considerable manner. This indicates how necessary a dissemination action on a large scale among educators with regard to both TEE potentialities and design literacy would be.

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