Distance Learning in Industrial Teacher Education Programs

Teacher Education: the Role of Open and Distance Learning

Open and Distance Learning for Initial Teacher Education

Open and distance learning (ODL) has played an important role in initial teacher education and training since the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)/UNESCO Institute of Education was set up in the 1960s. Early programmes addressed crisis situations by, for example, providing qualified teachers for Palestinian refugee children. The first decade of the 21st century has seen ODL emerge...

Effective Distance Teaching and learning in Higher Education

Nowadays, Universities have come across a main transformation. Lack of budget, an increase in the number of university students, a change in the student population, up-to-date and various educational needs of each society require fundamental changes that are coordinated with recent needs. This study aimed to evaluate the features of effective distance education in higher education. Findings of ...

College of Education Conceptual Framework Outcomes Teacher Education Graduate Programs

The TEP graduate/beginning teacher is knowledgeable of human development and supports the cognitive, social, physical, and emotional growth of all students, including those representing diverse cultural, linguistic, learning, and developmental needs and/or backgrounds. Knowledge • understands that students' physical, social, emotional, moral and cognitive development influence learning and know...

The Place of Postmethod Pedagogy in Teacher Education Programs in EFL Language Centers of Iran

ELT has recently witnessed a shift away from a method-bound orientation and toward a post-methodic view of teaching English. Consequently, the focus of some second language teacher education programs has shifted toward sociopolitical aspects of ELT (Miller, 2004) and its contributions to reinforcement or transformation of the status quo (Kumaravadivelu, 2003a). Yet, in many countries, including...