Journal of Technology and Information Education 2020, 12(2):143-151 | DOI: 10.5507/jtie.2020.021

DIGITAL LEARNING OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS DURING COVID-19 OUTBREAK

Prasart NUANGCHALERM*, Veena PRACHAGOOL, Jiří DOSTÁL
Mahasarakham University, Thailand
Mahasarakham University, Thailand
Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Česká republika

As we known, the Corona Virus Disease 2019 or COVID-19 outbreak is now spreading around the world. It spreads widely and quickly by our social activities. It can be panic to all people who following news from variety of patterns in social medias and online postings. So, it affects continuously a huge threat to the daily life, health care, social activities, and educational management. However, education in this era is supported by multi-medias and tools for learning management. Digital learning is employed to plays it important role in the situation of COVID-19 outbreak. This study employed survey method to investigate readiness on digital learning of science teacher students. Online questionnaire conducted with 36 junior and 38 senior science teacher students. The readiness on digital learning collected, analysed, and reported in terms of mean, standard deviation, and One Way ANOVA. The results found that senior science teachers have more readiness on digital learning than junior science teacher students. The components of digital learning are mostly readiness is at high level, while the creativity and innovation for digital learning is at medium level. The components of digital learning is tested and showed that it is significantly differences at .05 levels of statistics.

Keywords: digital learning, readiness, social distancing, teacher education

Received: November 10, 2020; Revised: November 10, 2020; Accepted: December 20, 2020; Prepublished online: January 5, 2021; Published: February 1, 2021  Show citation

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NUANGCHALERM, P., PRACHAGOOL, V., & DOSTÁL, J. (2020). DIGITAL LEARNING OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS DURING COVID-19 OUTBREAK. Journal of Technology and Information Education12(2), 143-151. doi: 10.5507/jtie.2020.021
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