INTEGRATION OF E-CONTENT IN EDUCATION

Abstract

Over the last two decades there has been a rapid growth in the field of ICT and it has become one of the most important topics in the field of education. Integration of ICT in teaching will facilitate teacher educators’ in meeting the requirement for technology-based teaching and learning. India is a global unicorn in the field of ICT and other cutting-edge domains, and there is a bidirectional relationship between technology and education. The Ministry of Education emphasises the importance of integration of technology in teacher education. In keeping with the digital age, teacher educators’ must integrate ICT in their teaching learning process and reduce the usage of traditional methods in teaching. The aim of this research is to study perceptions of teacher educators’ on ICT integration to enhance the teaching and learning processes and also to analyse the challenges encountered by the teacher educators in successful integration of ICT. A questionnaire was distributed to the teacher educators from the state of Odisha. The results indicate that the teacher educators’ are well-equipped with ICT tools and facilities and their perception regarding this is mostly found to be positive. The results also indicate that the challenges faced by the teacher educators’ are lack of training in integration of ICT, competence, lack of appropriate softwares and materials as well as limitation of time .