International Journal of Research in Economics and Social Sciences
Year : 2016, Volume : 6, Issue : 4
First page : ( 202) Last page : ( 220)
Online ISSN : 2249-7382.

The Rationale and Framework for Evaluating The ICT Use in Teacher Education

Dr. Angadi G. R.

Assistant Professor, BLDEA's JSS College of Education, P. G., Dept. of Studies in Education and Research Centre, Vijayapur-586101, Karnatak, India

Online published on 20 April, 2017.

Abstract

This study investigated that the quantity of computer and ICT use in teacher education institutions is less and it is mainly focused on the learning of ICT skills which takes optimum time computers are used. The framework is then improved towards a new framework that can be effectively used to evaluate information and communication technology use in pre-service teacher education. In this study the independent variables are derived from computer use within the institution, some other extraneous factor may have impact on the results. Those factors may be computer use at home, friends home and cyber or internet centers by the respondents. The study concludes that the reality rhetoric gap of the impact of ICTs in teacher education institutions be evaluated from periodically to ensure that the quality with program objectives are met. The result shows that there is an urgent need to conduct intensive training to all the teacher educators in the colleges of education. The curriculum developers should develop global content for serving the local needs and make it to available to all the colleges of education online as well as offline content or blended learning modules. Several factors have been cited as responsible for low quantity of computer use in colleges of education. Some of these factors are; attitude towards new technologies, poor management, lack of local content serving local needs, shortage of equipments.

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Keywords

Rationale, Evaluation Framework, ICT-CFT and ICT Use in Teacher Education.

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