The “Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching” is an online SWAYAM NITTT course specially designed and developed for the AICTE Technical Teacher Training Module. The course is structured to provide interactive MOOC learning experience to the faculty members and also to develop an understanding of how technology enhances and transforms classroom instruction. Integrating and infusing technologies into classroom teaching is a challenging task and its understanding is important for both teachers and students. Technology enabled teaching learning facilitates in differentiated instruction, since we are aware “one size doesn’t fit all”. Despite of your ICT literacy, this course will help you course will help you in leveraging your teaching strengths and find the approach that is right for you, your students and your educational context. Thus, the course facilitates and guide in the instructional planning through technology. You will have the opportunity to develop your understanding of effective online teaching practices and their relationship to the use of different technologies in connecting CONTENT to the CONTEXT. You will also be encouraged to progressively design and reflect upon your own online learning activity, assessment or resource for use in your own class if you choose to undertake the course assignments. The course is structured with experiential sharing, input from the experts and interviewees from the stake holders. Through many examples and case studies, the participants will be exposed how to create technology enhanced instruction for their students and what to address when designing these experiences. More specifically, in this course participants will be exploring to find answers for the following questions:
- How classroom instruction needs to be structured for the current generation learners?
- What does research evidence tell us about integrating ICT tools in classroom instruction?
- Identify and understand the range of technology enabled teaching implementation models?
- How blended learning provides shift in instruction, roles, and technology integration.
- Review the availability of technology for the blended & flipped classroom.
- How can we ensure that this instructional design will help our students achieve their intended learning outcomes?
- What pedagogic options do we have to make our teaching successful?
- What assessment and feedback practices can help our students learn more effectively?
- Explore various management techniques to create safe and ethical technology enabled learning environments that includes social collaboration.
- Examine the challenges associated with technology enabled teaching learning implementation and how you can address these challenges.