DocumentCode :
1969278
Title :
The impact of E-learning on school teachers in recurrent education
Author :
Wang, Yi Hsuan ; Young, Shelley Shwu Ching ; Wei, Chi-Ting
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Inf. Syst. & Applic., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
fYear :
2011
fDate :
16-18 Sept. 2011
Firstpage :
6920
Lastpage :
6924
Abstract :
This study attempts to investigate the perception of the adult learners who study in recurrent education through adoption of e-learning mode. The participants of this study were 47 elementary and junior high school teachers. Now, they had the opportunities to return to school for learning knowledge. The approach of our study focus not only on analyzing their attitude of experience the way of learning with technology but also on how technology help the recurrent education learners or the digital immigrant learners to overcome the learning problems they had met. The results yielded from this study showed a quite positive feedback according to the empirical data, the so called digital immigrants could get used to the newly digital learning technology well and get benefit from it. Moreover, it is anticipated that the feedback from the learners could be able to make some useful suggestions to our government on how to take advantage of using information technology for diverse adult learners in recurrent education.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; distance learning; information technology; E-learning; adult learners; digital immigrant learners; distance learning; information technology; learning knowledge; recurrent education; school teachers; Computers; Continuing education; Educational institutions; Electronic learning; Information systems; Information technology; Digital immigrant; Distance learning; Recurrent education; School teacher;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Control Engineering (ICECE), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Yichang
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8162-0
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICECENG.2011.6056847
Filename :
6056847
Link To Document :
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