e-Learning Readiness of

Hong Kong Teachers

Dr. Kong Siu Cheung

Department of Mathematics and Information Technology

The Hong Kong Institute of Education

e-Learning in School Education in the

Twenty-first Century

With a goal of shifting to learner-centered learning paradigm:

Emphasizing the process of active, constructive and interactive

learning among students for the development of subject

knowledge and twenty-first century skills

Under the trend of creating digital classrooms within campuses:

Supporting students to use portable devices that are wirelessly

interconnected for resource retrieval and interpersonal

communication in general classrooms

The Implication of Using Digital

Resources in Learning and Teaching

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Inquiry-based Learning in Mathematics

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=64

e-Learning in Primary Schools

in Hong Kong

A Review of e-Learning Readiness of

Primary School Teachers in Hong Kong

A one-month questionnaire survey with all the 482 primary schools

in Hong Kong

72.20% of local primary schools participated in the questionnaire

survey (N = 348)

The principal or his/her representative in each surveyed school

anonymously completed the web-based questionnaire in a “self-

administered” approach in December 2012

Four main questions covered the themes of IT integration into subject

teaching and professional development for IT in education

Current Situations of IT Integration for e-

Learning: Teachers’ Extent of Using IT for

Teaching

Teachers across different subject areas in general often used IT for subject

teaching, with mean ratings above 4 (“a lot”)

Computer/IT subject teachers nearly “always” (with the mean rating closing

to the level of 5) used IT in subject teaching

e-Learning Readiness of Primary

School Teachers in Hong Kong

Local primary school teachers are generally confident of and adapted

to the use of IT for learning and teaching across different subjects

There is a trend of using emerging technology for learning and

teaching, apart from the digital devices commonly found in school

Local primary school teachers have many professional development

opportunities to enhance their capacity to continuously integrate IT

into learning and teaching

There is a trend of joining interschool sharing sessions, apart

from the internal sharing sessions commonly provided by schools

Reflection on the e-Learning Readiness of

Primary School Teachers in Hong Kong

The teacher-centered teaching paradigm commonly implemented in

local primary schools at present makes

primary school teachers lacked of rich experience in the

pedagogical use of IT for promoting active, constructive and

interactive learning under the one-computer to one-student setting

typical for digital classrooms

existing professional development unable to fully support

teachers to build confidence and competency in engaging

students in active, constructive and interactive learning desirable

for digital classrooms

Ways Forward for e-Learning Readiness:

Implications for Professional Development

Professional development in future should be

sustainable

scalable

To better prepare teachers for the long-term and impactful changes in

teaching motivations and teaching practices for the promotion of

learner-centered learning paradigm

e-Learning Readiness of

Hong Kong Teachers

Thank You for Your Attention!

Dr. Kong Siu Cheung

Department of Mathematics and Information Technology

The Hong Kong Institute of Education