• 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