The Development Of Educational ICT Courses for Pre-Service Teachers

Considering the 21st-century children's characteristics, teachers need to realize the importance and necessity of educational technology integration, and understand how to use technology to facilitate student-centered instruction and achieve meaningful outcomes. Given educational technology effectiveness, impractical and insufficient curricula for pre-service teachers, and current inflexible conditions for in-service teachers, teacher education colleges need to provide pre-service teachers with practical activities using educational technologies prior to their teaching career. This will encourage new generation learners to learn with technology. This book, therefore, provides ideas which learning contents, practices, and knowledge-acquisition processes, best support pre-service teachers to improve necessary educational ICT knowledge and skills for their future teaching. This analysis should be especially useful to professionals in Educational Technology field, or anyone else who may be involved with developing curricula for teacher education course.