Throughout my training experience, I have helped a large number of schools move from being purely paper-based to becoming fully online. The most astonishing thing is the ability of the students to fully adapt with e-learning more than teachers and the school itself. E-learning made education more accessible to students, they could relate more to their daily lives than just depending on the book within their classrooms.
After working with many schools across the Middle East (including schools in Lebanon), Blended Learning has proved it's the way to go for our culture and environment. Even though our students love using technology in the classroom, they still need the actual text book as a resource. Technology may fail the teachers in some cases so a plan B is always needed to avoid disruption of the learning process.
Extensive training of the teachers before moving them to online teaching is a crucial aspect for a successful implementation within the classroom.
Interesting idea, I totally agree with you on it. Blended learning is an innovation in the educational field, since e-learning is very successful method to educate kids especially in the time of crisis, they find it easy and relevant to their lives, but also students still need text books to learn because it reminds them of their reality as humans without usage of technology.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy reading!! Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well and keep the students involved and motivated. Teachers should learn new strategies and tools before they start teaching online.
ReplyDeleteInteresting Souzan !!I enjoyed what I have read now , I think training helps teachers to become more skillful and more motivated also they can learn new strategies and new methods
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