“Attitude of teacher educators’ towards using e-content in teaching”

Dr.Hoovinbhavi B L Sushma N Jogan Professor & Dean JRF Scholar

DOS in Research & EducationGulbarga University,Kalaburagi-585106

Introduction

• Education system around the world is drastically changing to use new information and technology.

• However, even today one of the greatest challenges of integrating ICT in education is lack of e-content quality.

• E-content includes all kinds of content created and delivered through various electronic media from ‘old media’.

• So, it is the need of the hour to encourage e-content at various levels of education.

• It is more essential to provide e-content development for the teacher educators.

Need of the study:

• The growth in Internet has brought changes in all walks of life including the education.

• e-content includes all kinds of content created and delivered through various electronic media from “old media”

• e-content requires huge amounts of creativity both at 'information' level as well as the 'technology' level.

• E-Content can also be utilized as reusable learning objects.• E-contents are basically a package that satisfies the conditions like i.e.

minimization of the distance, cost effectiveness, user-friendliness and adaptability to local conditions.

• The possibility of such virtual reality can be made by generating good e-Contents and accessible by all.

Operational terms defined:

• Teacher educators: they are educators who provide formal instruction or conduct research and development for educating prospective and practicing teachers.

• Attitude: A predisposition or a tendency to respond positively or negatively towards a certain idea, object, person or situation.

• E-content: Electronic content is a digital content that can be transmitted over a computer network such as the internet.

• E-journals: Electronic journals also known as e-journals, are scholarly journals or intellectual magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission.

• E-books: A book that is read on a computer or other electronic device. A book composed in or converted to digital format for display on a computer screen or handheld device.

Objectives of the study

• To identify teacher educators’ attitude towards using e-content in their teaching.

• To find out the difference between male and female teacher educators’ attitude towards using e-content.

• To understand the need and importance of e-content in teaching.

• To find out the ways in using of e-content in teaching process.

Hypotheses

• There is a significant difference in teacher educators’ attitude towards using e-content in their teaching.

• There is a significant difference between male and female teacher educators’ attitude towards using e-content.

• There is a significant difference between arts and science teacher educators’ attitude in using e-content.

• There is a significant difference in teacher educators’ attitude towards using e-content with respect to locality.

Research Methodology

• Sampling technique: For the present study researcher has used random sampling technique.

• Size of the sample: A sample of 100 teacher educators selected from different colleges of Gulbarga city.

• Methodology & Tool: The study is based on Survey method. Research tool was developed by Dr. S Rajasekar (2010).

• Statistical technique: Mean, SD and t test was used.• Analysis & Interpretation of data: The collected information

from the data was analyzed statistically by using SPSS version 20. Following are the inferences ascertained.

Data analysis and interpretation

Teacher educators

N Mean SD t Sig100 1.58 0.496 1883.297 0.000*

*significant at 0.05 level

The above table reveals that attitude towards use of e content in Teacher educators (N=100), Mean 1.58, Standard Deviation 0.496 and calculated t-value 1883.297 and obtained significant value is 0.000 which is significant at 0.05 level. Therefore above stated hypothesis is accepted.

Table 1 There is a significant difference in teacher educators’ attitude towards using e-content in their teaching.

Data analysis and interpretation

*significant at 0.05 level

The above table shows that teacher educators attitude with respect to gender, male (N=50), Mean 1.48, Standard Deviation 0.505 and calculated t-value 2.048 and obtained significant value is 0.043, female (N=50) Mean 1.68, Standard Deviation 0.471 and calculated t-value 2.048 and obtained significant value is 0.049 which is significant at 0.05 level. Therefore above stated hypothesis is accepted.

Table 2 There is a significant difference between male and female teacher educators’ attitude towards using e-content in their teaching.

Gender N Mean SD t SigMale 50 1.48 0.505 2.048 0.043

Female 50 1.68 0.471

Data analysis and interpretation

*significant at 0.05 level

The above table shows that teacher educators attitude with in discipline of science (N=42), Mean 1.76, Standard Deviation 0.906 and calculated t-value 3.995 and obtained significant value is 0.000, Arts (N=58) Mean 2.47, Standard Deviation 0.842 and calculated t-value 3.949 and obtained significant value is 0.000 which is significant at 0.05 level. Therefore above stated hypothesis is accepted.

Table 3 There is a significant difference between arts and science teacher educators’ attitude towards using e-content.

Discipline N Mean SD t SigScience 42 1.76 0.906 3.995 0.000

Arts 58 2.47 0.842 3.949 0.000

Data analysis and interpretation

*significant at 0.05 level

The above table shows that locality of teacher educators, Rural (N=32), Mean 1.66, Standard Deviation 0.865 and calculated t-value 4.064 and obtained significant value is 0.000, Urban (N=68) Mean 2.41, Standard Deviation 0.868 and calculated t-value 4.069 and obtained significant value is 0.000 which is not significant at 0.05 level. Therefore above stated hypothesis is accepted.

Table 4 There is a significant difference in teacher educators’ attitude towards using e-content with respect to their locality.

Locality N Mean SD t SigRural 32 1.66 0.865 4.064 0.000

Urban 68 2.41 0.868 4.069 0.000

Conclusion

• Content is the heart of learning and medium acts as nerves in that. Although e-content development plays a key role in e-learning, it is undoubtedly not an easy process.

• It requires expert knowledge in the subject area, patience in creating the necessary objects that make up quality, interactive course where, and a high sense of creativity in structuring and sequencing the topics to make a complete whole.

• From this we can predict that e-content production enriches the e-learning in a dynamic way. So, it is clear from the above analysis the results indicate that teacher educators have favorable attitude towards using e-content in their teaching.