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Title: | Teachers’ Digital Skills Readiness During COVID-19 Pandemic |
Authors: | Perifanou, Maria Economides, Anastasios A. Tzafilkou, Katerina |
Type: | Article |
Subjects: | FRASCATI::Social sciences::Educational sciences::Education, general (including: training, pedagogy,didactics) FRASCATI::Natural sciences::Computer and information sciences |
Keywords: | digital skills digital competence teachers professional development teachers skills continuing education digital readiness |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
Source: | International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 08 |
First Page: | 238 |
Last Page: | 251 |
Abstract: | The COVID-19 crisis revealed the necessity for teachers to have digital skills in order to effectively teach online. Teachers should be able to exploit, use, and apply digital technologies in all educational activities. This paper investigates teachers’ perceptions regarding their digital skills for performing their teaching and professional responsibilities during the pandemic. More than eight hundred teachers participated in a survey regarding the use of digital technologies in their teaching and their professional responsibilities. Indicative digital tools that can be used by digital competent teachers are also presented to cover all areas of the teachers’ professional activities. Their answers revealed that they mostly used digital tools for finding, evaluating, and developing educational resources as well for teaching. They also used digital tools for self-study, students’ assessment, as well as interacting and communicating with students. However, they hardly used digital tools for other teaching activities such as feedback and final evaluation of the students, or revising the educational resources. Finally, they could not deal with long-term planning, management, and development of either their school or education in general. Although it is important for teachers to effectively respond to their daily emergent teaching responsibilities, consideration should also be given to the long-term planning and development of the digital school and digital education in general. |
URI: | https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v16i08.21011 https://ruomo.lib.uom.gr/handle/7000/1301 |
ISSN: | 1863-0383 |
Other Identifiers: | 10.3991/ijet.v16i08.21011 |
Appears in Collections: | Department of Economics |
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