Abstract
Considering the important role of teachers in educating the
nation’s pupils, quality teacher education should be given priority. A
benchmark of quality in teacher education is the ability to stay relevant
with the rapid changes in our knowledge-based global society and at
the same time is able to give equal relevance to local needs and
aspirations of the nation. This requires a process which embraces
change and adaptations. A pilot project was undertaken by the School
of Educational Studies, USM which gave student-teachers the
opportunity to experience authentic technology–supported
constructivist learning environments in their teacher education
programme. The aim of the project was to design a resource pool of
reusable pedagogically sound multimedia learning objects based on the
Malaysian Year 6 English Curriculum. This project was a collaborative
effort between a multidisciplinary team consisting of teacher educators,
web developers, in-service teachers and student-teachers. This effort
culminated in an online multimedia repository, the ‘e-Lesson Creator’
which is described in this paper. With this project, ICT had provided a
powerful tool to support the shift from teacher-centered to studentcentered learning in teacher education, eliciting relevant changes to the
traditional teacher educator- student teacher roles.
Abdul Rashid Muhammad, Lee Lay Wah. (2007) Promises of the e-Lesson Creator: A Byproduct of Innovation in the Experimentation to Improve the Quality of Student-Teachers Experience in Teacher Education, Journal of Research and Reflections in Education, Volume 1, Issue 2.
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