Technology in Teacher Education

Virtual learning, digitization and augmented reality make obsolete our old definitions of a classroom in 2020. Unbundled, personalized, and dynamic education is the new normal.

"In this research, we explore how educators are using digital education services to deliver personalised programs. Through inputs from a series of in-depth interviews, surveys and social listening, we paint a picture of how the world of work and learning might evolve over the next forty years." A 16-page report from IBM.

How can learning analytics help? How does learning analytics process work? What are the costs and challenges of learning analytics? What are the recommendations for educators and administrators?

This is a nice info-graphic which answers some of the challenges mentioned in the Horizon Report.

In this article, there are some items mentioned which are getting trendy and which the teachers may want to keep up with.

Chegg is an online homework help and material supply company and Dan Rosensweig, chief executive officer at Chegg, discusses the trends in education tech and what we can expect to see in 2016.

These are the 5 Future Trends for education

10 trends shaping the future of education from EducationDIVE

Failure of Fatih project. We can compare it with PT3 project easly

The article evaluates FATIH project from future mathematics teachers' perspective.

The results of the current study show that teachers involved in Fatih Project were especially content with being able to make their lessons visually more appealing for their students. They were, however, not satisfied with the in-service training provided, especially in understanding ways to effectively integrate the technologies into their teaching, and the limitations put upon Internet access from the tablets. The impacts of these tools on their teaching practices were very minimal.

Adıgüzel, A. (2010). İlköğretim okullarında öğretim teknolojilerinin durumu ve sınıf öğretmenlerinin bu teknolojileri kullanma düzeyleri. Dicle Üniversitesi Ziya Gökalp Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, 15, 1-17. Akıncı, A., Kurtoğlu, M. ve Seferoğlu, S.S. (2012). Bir teknoloji politikası olarak FATİH Projesinin başarılı olması için yapılması gerekenler: Bir durum analizi çalışması.

The article introduces us the simulations and their features used in teacher education.

The video is about virtual relaity in teacher education.

A presentation about SIM School

A video about affordances of simschool

Nice presentation which helped me to understand the simSchool better.

Aurasma helps us everyday objects, images, and places into new opportunities for engagement through striking augmented reality experiences.

In this article, the authors provide a summary of the evolution of simulation in the field of teacher education and three factors that need to be considered as these environments further develop.

TeachLivE is a mixed-reality classroom with simulated students that provides teachers the opportunity to develop their pedagogical practice in a safe environment

Immersive environments, such as Multi-User Virtual Environments and virtual worlds, are increasingly being prototyped, explored and assessed as tools to help students master content, domain-specific thinking skills, and general problem-solving ad decision making skills.

Like many other arenas, to be a pioneer institution for OpenCourseWare Project, as METU members, we need to increase the number of high quality courses published and reach more learners as possible. In this process, METU Instructional Technology Support Office supports faculty members for developing course materials and publishing those materials on the Web.