iTunesU: Level of Use and Barriers for K-12 teachers in North Carolina
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Ananda Mitra, Qi Gu, Wake Forest University, United States ; Neill Kimrey, NC Dept. of Public Education, United States
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, in Montréal, Quebec, Canada ISBN 978-1-880094-98-3 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), San Diego, CA
Abstract
This paper explores the background of the development of online delivery of academic material particularly for the K-12 environment focusing on the specific iTunesU technology that has become widely available and and has been adopted my many state public education systems across the United States. The data presented in this paper demonstrates that even though the technology has been deployed there are important barriers to the use of the tools among the K-12 instructors with lack of equipment, lack of training, a lack of understanding of the benefits of the technology being some of the key barriers. The data also demonstrates that instructors are using word processing and communication software as the primary tools and there is a lack of time to adopt new tools such as iTunesU.
Citation
Mitra, A., Gu, Q. & Kimrey, N. (2012). iTunesU: Level of Use and Barriers for K-12 teachers in North Carolina. In T. Bastiaens & G. Marks (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2012--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 1 (pp. 1166-1185). Montréal, Quebec, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 28, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/41760/.
© 2012 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
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