Pravaha: ideas, information and education flow

This is a summary of a paper entitled "University Level Learning and Teaching via E-Learning Platforms" written by D. Benta, G. Bologa, S. Dzitac, and I. Dzitac which in the time of writing had collaboration with Agora University of Oradea, Departement of Social Sciences, Romania. The paper was published in Procedia Computer Science Journal (Elsevier) under information technology and quantitative management (ITQM 2015). The journal is an open access under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). The paper related to some previous research, such as the comparison between e-learning and traditional learning on the acquisition and retention of knowledge (Kelly et al), three considered dimensions to have benefits of e-learning on learning (Vavpotic et al.) and Chai et al. work in reviewing some papers related to TPACK which resulted that it has positive results in enhancing teachers' capacity to integrate ICT for instructional practice. ...

The paper entitled developing a TPCK-SRL assessment scheme for conceptually advancing technology in education was written by Zehavit Cohen and Bracha Kramarski from Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Th paper was submitted for Elsevier Journal studies in educational evaluation in 2012. The paper was about TPCK and Self-Regulated Learning (SRL)of 9 preservice teachers in Israel. In that paper, the writers followed the new TPCK-SRL approach that emerged from the transformative approach and shares its view of TPCK as a body of knowledge that goes beyond the integration of constituent bases toward their transformation into something new. The SRL refers to the cyclical stage process what the so-called comprising forethought, action and performance, and reflection (Zimmerman, 2000). In that process, learners asked themselves what, how, when, and why questions.  Researchers also indicated that although TPCK has significant implications for the education of the teachers and t...

Hi everyone, hope you all are doing well. This time, I am going to write a summary from a paper entitled a review of technological pedagogical content knowledge written by Ching Sing Chai, Joyce Hwee Ling Koh and Chin-Chung Tsai who have an affiliation with Nanyang Technological University, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. The paper was submitted for Educational Technology and Society in 2013. They started with identifying the literature in May 2011 by exploring the web of science database and used TPACK or TPCK and technological pedagogical content knowledge as the keywords.  As a result, they found 40 articles. Next, they did further searching by using education research complete and ERIC and found 75 journals articles. After eliminating duplicates, there were 74 articles were read, analyzed and coded using a spreadsheet program. The researchers adapted systematic approach to code the data and categorized the articles into four categories as follow bas...

Hello everyone, This time, I read a paper entitled Integrating ICT into Teacher Education Programs from a TPACK Perspective: Exploring Perceptions of University Lecturers written by Vicente Chua Reyes Jr., Christine Reading, Helen Doyle and Sue Gregory. Three of the writers has an affiliation with University of New England and one of the writers has an affiliation with University of Queensland. The paper was submitted for Computers and Education: An International Journal (Elsevier) in 2017 and can be assessed in  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2017.07.009 .  The paper was an exploratory research of how lecturers in Australian university perceive the impact of TPACK in their teaching practice. The research reported in the research was conducted in 2010 and 2011. There were about 20% university students enrolled on-campus study and 80% off-campus. To be detailed, there were about 14.84% and 13.74% students who enrolled off-campus in 2010 and 2011 respectively....