E-teaching in higher education: An essential prerequisite for e-learning

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Abstract

The discourse on the implementation of the digital technologies in higher education settings focuses mainly on students' learning rather than on professors' teaching. The little attention paid to the crucial role of teachers in online settings results in a restricted and moderate adaptation of the technologies in higher education worldwide. In most higher education institutions, the new technologies are used mainly for add-on functions and not for substituting faceto- face encounters or for an intensive web-enhanced teaching. This article starts with briefly explaining why most students, particularly at the undergraduate level, are unable and/or unwilling to study by themselves without expert teachers to guide their knowledge construction, discusses the problematics of digital literacy of teachers, examines the main reasons for the reluctance of many academics to utilize the technologies more fully in their teaching, and concludes by recommending some strategies for incorporating more fully the huge array of the technologies' capabilities in higher education institutions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)93-97
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of New Approaches in Educational Research
Volume7
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018

Keywords

  • Academic faculty
  • Digital technologies
  • E-learning
  • E-teaching
  • Higher education

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Education

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