Teacher Training Materials for ICT in Education
The successful integration of ICT into teaching and learning depends on:
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teachers’ ability to design and/or adapt engaging learning activities and structure the learning environment in ways that merge the pedagogy with the advantages that ICT offers; and
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managers at both ministerial and school levels, that create an enabling environment for ICT to be integrated into teaching and learning.
The Commonwealth of Learning, mostly in partnership with other organisations and institutions, has developed teacher training materials as open educational resources. The materials aim to improve teachers’ experience of teaching in the classroom with ICT and increase school managers’ involvement in ICT implementation in the school. Institutions that wish to deploy the materials can use it as is, adapt it for their own context and make their own decisions about how these materials course should be used, which technologies to use and what learning management and/or collaboration tools to deploy ....read more