Emerging Elearning Conference 1921 November 2005 Abu Dhabi, UAE

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E-merging E-learning Conference19-21 November
2005Abu Dhabi, UAE
The EWB 2005 E-Learning Survey    21st Century
Teacher Certification
Presented by Dr Stanley B. Knight Peter
Hatherley-Greene
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EWB 2005 E-Learning Survey

• Open to conference attendees during EWB
  Conference February 2005
• Available on the WWW
• 175 responses
• Survey Focus Areas
• e-Skills and e-Experience
• e-Application and e-Potential
• e-Advocacy and e-Leadership
• Survey results shared during conference

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EWB 05 Trends

• e-Skills and e-Experience
• 72 either self-taught or learned at school
• most rated skills from average to above average
• 1/3 chose blended learning as their preferred
  learning mode
• most preferred F2F to communicate
• 70 use WWW as prime source of information
• almost 60 had taken an online course
• comments use of online learning in full-time
  employment, access to the sick or infirmed, slow
  internet speeds, missing human factor, a bridge

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EWB 05 Trends

• e-Application and e-Potential
• high teacher self-ratings match high
  institutional ICT use
• almost 80 think teachers need high ICT skills
• 56 felt 50/50 computer/teacher mix best
• most felt Global Cyber Teams could be effective
• comments global communication has been
  facilitated through technology, e-learning has
  huge potential but may not provide everything,
  help in alleviating rural poverty in developing
  world (GCT)

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EWB 05 Trends

• e-Advocacy and e-Leadership
• 70 think UAE is a major global IT leader
• substantive support for e-learning initiatives
  such as GCTs and further conferences
• comments enthusiasm from developing countries
  for e-learning initiatives (Assistive
  Technology), ICT may help strengthen the role of
  women, together we are stronger

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EWB 05 Trends

• Summary
• strong perception that things are happening
• technologies such as email/internet have been
  readily adopted why havent others?
• teachers are beginning to understand the ground
  is shifting
• teachers know what but do they know how?
• teachers know where but not why?
• tension/disconnect remains within
  teacher-learner-technology triad

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T-L-T Hybrids
Future direction???
Teacher-dependent technology talk Tech-blockers

• Learner-independent
• new stories with new tools
• Tech visionaries
• larger classes
• no classrooms
• Learning Spaces
• larger studentteacher ratios

How???
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Issues

• Are we on a continuum or can hybrids co-exist?
• Do institutions know where they want to be?
• Do teachers know where their institution wants to
  be?
• Teachers and institutions appear well matched in
  terms of ICT but the how and the why?
• How do we facilitate change? Top-down, bottom-up
  approaches?
• 21st Century Teacher Certification

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The 21st Century Teacher

• The Global Community
• Information communication Technologies (ICT)
• Teacher Certification
• Academic Credentials
• Communication Skills
• Field Experience / Student Teaching

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Teacher Preparation

• 21st Century Global Learning Community
• The E Teacher Issues and Skills
• Designing Learning Experiences
• E Learning Analysis / Global Cyber Teams

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