Journal of Technology and Information Education 2021, 13(1):92-102 | DOI: 10.5507/jtie.2021.010
IMPACTS OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ON DEVELOPING QUALITY OF TEACHING
- Palacky University Olomouc, Česká republika
Information and communication technology (ICT) brings about magnificent improvement in the field of education. It also provides opportunities for innovations in the process of teaching and learning for the sake of achieving the desired learning in students. The approaches of teaching mainly transformed from the teacher-centred class into the student-centred one, with students actively engaging in learning. The teachers who use ICT are expected to effectively employ it in teaching and learning processes to improve not only the students' learning performance but also their own teaching proficiency. First, this study aims at demonstrating the effects of ICT on the development of teaching quality that could enable teachers to improve their pedagogical beliefs and practices. Second, it suggests the factors that result in progressing ICT teachers' teaching quality in educational settings. A qualitative methodology was adopted in this study, and the adopted analysis procedure includes a description of ICT, ICT and quality of teaching, the impacts of ICT on improving teaching quality (benefits of ICT in the teaching context), factors that result in advancing ICT and teaching quality in the educational settings and conclusions. This paper has drawn on educational research and emerging new practices of ICT in teaching and learning processes to investigate the impacts of ICT on developing quality of teaching.
Keywords: ICT, Developing Quality of Teaching
Received: June 14, 2021; Revised: July 2, 2021; Accepted: June 14, 2021; Prepublished online: September 15, 2021; Published: October 18, 2021 Show citation
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