Developing ICT Competency for Thai Teachers through Blended Training

ICT COMPETENCY STANDARDS FOR TEACHERS Competency Standards Modules ICT COMPETENCY STANDARDS FOR TEACHERS ICT COMPETENCY STANDARDS FOR TEACHERS

Foreword To live, learn, and work successfully in an increasingly complex, information-rich and knowledge-based society, students and teachers must utilize technology effectively. Within a sound educational setting, technology can enable students to become: • Capable information technology users • Information seekers, analyzers, and evaluators • Problem solvers and decision makers • Creative an...

ICT Advanced Training of University Teachers

Nowadays ICT is the integral part of modern teacher’s and scholar’s activity. For teachers it is reasonable to allocate two basic approach of ICT use: e-learning courses designing (to satisfaction of educational needs of students and implementation of new educational approaches) and openness in the presentation of their own research interests. For effective implementation of these approaches it...

Analysis of Teachers Training for Ict Higher Education

Changing Teacher Beliefs through ICT: Comparing a Blended and Online Teacher Training Program

Teachers’ beliefs towards learning, teaching and ICT may have a strong impact on how learning opportunities are designed and implemented. However, research has shown that providing effective opportunities for teachers to develop skills and competence with ICT tools in order that they effectively redesign their learning environments are not straightforward. In this study we examined two teacher ...

Developing and testing competency levels for laparoscopic skills training.

HYPOTHESIS Expert levels can be developed for use as training end points for a basic video-trainer skills curriculum, and the levels developed will be suitable for training. DESIGN Fifty subjects with minimal prior simulator exposure were enrolled using an institutional review board-approved protocol. As a measure of baseline performance, medical students (n = 11) and surgery residents (n = 3...