OPEN ACCESS
PEER-REVIEWED
Research Study – Published: July 18, 2009.
Awareness of Digital Learning among Prospective B.Ed Teachers
F.L. JASMINE ANNE SHYLA & F.L. ANTONY GRACIOUS
ABSTRACT
The progress of Science is marked as an accumulation and emergence of scientific method and digital
learning. Science
would provide an intellectual atmosphere for the pupils to be developed by providing the problem solving
activities for
every day. In such situations, it is essential to understand Hence, Awareness of Digital Learning is an
offshoot to know
about the awareness of /CT application in education by the prospective B.Ed teachers is the need of our
present day.
The problem has been stated as “AWARENESS OF DIGITAL LEARNING AMONG PROSPECTIVE B.Ed TEACHERS". The
population of the
study is prospective B.Ed teachers studying in Colleges of Education from Kanyakumari, Tuticorin and
Tirunelveli
districts affiliated with Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli. The investigators has used
random sampling
technique for selec;:.ting the sample for the investigation. The investigator randomly selected 242
Prospective B.Ed
teachers studying in College of Education from Kanyakumari, Tuticorin and Tirunelveli •districts
affiliated with
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli. Digital Learning Scale prepared by the investigator was
used for
collecting data for this survey method. The investigator has used arithmetic mean,’t’-test; standard
deviation and ANOVA
for analysing the data. The findings of the study shows that male are better than female prospective
B.Ed teachers, rural
prospective B.Ed teachers are better than urban Prospective B.Ed teachers and day scholar are better
than hostel
students in their digital awareness and it may be due to their curiosity to know the innovative and new
things their
environment and also their freedom to know new things of this digital world.
Keywords: Digital Learning, ICT Awareness, Prospective B.Ed Teachers, Gender Differences,
Rural and Urban
Students, Day Scholars and Hostel Students, Teacher Education, Digital Competency.
The author(s) appreciates all those who participated in the study and helped to facilitate
the research process.
The author(s) declared no conflict of interest.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
License
(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction in any Medium,
provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite this article:
Shyla, F. L. J. A., & Gracious, F. L. A. (2009). Awareness of digital learning among prospective
B.Ed teachers.
Indian Educational Researcher, 2(2), 11–16.
Received: June 17, 2009; Revision Received: July 08, 2009; Accepted: July 18,
2009.
Responding Author: F.L. JASMINE ANNE SHYLA @ jasmine@gmail.com
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