Major challenges and possible enablers of ICTs integration in TE Singh J.D. GV College of Education (CTE), Sangaria, Rajasthan, India Email: drjdsingh@gmail.com
Abstract The impacts of globalization, international competitions, and local social political demands have induced rapid changes in many countries in different parts of the world since the turn of new millennium. In such an era of fast transformation, education reform inevitably becomes necessary and teachers and their institutions have to face numerous new problems, uncertainties, and challenges rising from their internal and external environments. Information and communication technology (ICT) is an indispensable part of the contemporary world. In fact, culture and society have to be adjusted to meet the challenges of the knowledge age. The pervasiveness of ICT has brought about rapid technological, social, political, and economic transformation, which has eventuated in a network society organised around ICT. The field of education has not been unaffected by the penetrating influence of information and communication technology. Undoubtedly, ICT has impacted on the quality and quantity of teaching, learning, and research in traditional and distance education institutions. In concrete terms, ICT can enhance teaching and learning through its dynamic, interactive, and engaging content; and it can provide real opportunities for individualized instruction. Information and communication technology has the potential to accelerate, enrich, and deepen skills; motivate and engage students in learning; helps to relate college experiences to work practices; helps to create economic viability for tomorrow's workers; contributes to radical changes in institution; strengthens teaching, and provides opportunities for connection between the college and the world. Information and communication technology can make the teacher education institutions more efficient and productive, thereby engendering a variety of tools to enhance and facilitate teachers’ professional activities. Top Keywords ICT Integration, Teacher Education. Top |