PST Online

Learner voices guiding learning design

Authors

  • Yvonne Masters
  • Sue Gregory
  • Stephen Grono

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14742/apubs.2016.848

Keywords:

virtual schools, online teaching, pre-service teacher education, website design

Abstract

Online teaching has become more pervasive throughout the 21st century, partly a result of new technologies allowing for interactive online learning environments and partly to meet the needs of students who cannot access traditional face-to-face classrooms for all or part of their schooling. Pre-service teacher education has lagged behind this uptake in online teaching, failing to prepare new graduate teachers for the possibility of teaching wholly online to students in a range of learning environments. Pre-Service Teachers Online is a website designed to address this gap by providing pre-service teachers with resources to assist in building online teaching skills. Current pre-service teachers' awareness of online teaching skills were sought, providing the foundation for the website. Presented is how the website was designed to meet identified pre-service teachers' needs allowing participants to reflectively consider how their current perceptions of teaching practices could apply in a blended or fully online classroom model.

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Published

2016-11-25

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ASCILITE Conference - Concise Papers