Research Paper E- Commerce
E-ISSN No : 2454-9916 | Volume : 2 | Issue : 2 | Feb 2016
E TEACHER - A BLOOMING BOON
Dr. Sapna Sukrut Deo Assistant Professor, New Law College, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune, Maharashtra, India. Introduction We are using technology in every sphere of our lives. Then why teaching should be left behind. The age old practice of teaching that is a teacher coming to a class engaging lecture for an hour, at about the same time, chanting the canons is a regular feature of her one hour class. This all is quite boring also for the students. Few students just attend the class for the sake of attendance only. So it is really important to bring a change in the age old method of teaching. Since also now days we are experiencing that many colleges are setting up their campuses at outskirt of cities or there are few students whose colleges are in another city and have to travel such distance daily. Same is the case with teachers too. What will be situation if good education is very accessible? It is possible through e-learning and e-teaching. Rapid changes in communication technologies nowadays, enable teachers to move from traditional face-to-face classroom activities to online classrooms, or online activities in the traditional classrooms. Using information and communication technologies (ICT) to teach students are insisted by educational systems worldwide, who gain the knowledge and skills needed for the future knowledge society. E-Teachers E-teachers provide instruction through computers and the Internet. E-teachers work with students and classes to teach material using computers and the Internet. E–teaching is by way of the use of ICT in higher education, which aims mainly the independent use of technology by students. E-teaching is the instructional system of processes and activities designed according to the ICT development, characteristics, and models of e-learning, principles of formal communication, principles of e-education, principles of competence-based education system etc. E-teachers may work as part of a formal institution, like a university, community college, or high school, or they may work on a more informal basis. Common duties of e-teachers include creating, revising and updating curricula; creating, distributing and grading assignments; corresponding with students; monitoring discussing groups; coordinating with other educators; and other duties as needed. In e-teaching scenarios teacher activities can be broken into two major tasks of providing the content for the students and supporting communication between students and tutors. Teachers who are used to follow more traditional teaching methods so far have to pose problems. Therefore, modern teachers and e-teachers must be able to organize different types of e-learning and e-teaching scenarios. According to new demands in the teachers' professional activities and e-teaching context, the teachers' e-teaching competencies are the complex system of special roles and competencies. Following are few ways of e-teaching: * Web-based e-teaching. * Classroom-based e-teaching. * Online classroom e-teaching. * Net-based course. * E-teaching with streaming media technology. * E-teaching in the hypermedia classroom. * E-teaching based on the combination of the traditional classroom learning and e-learning.
Role of E-Teacher E-teacher creates a model of cognitive functioning in the subjects/course content. She observes and examines the students' reaction, activities in e-learning and e-teaching context; she assesses the student on the basis of these reactions. She creates the plan of eteaching, integrates tasks and outcomes, creates plan of teaching/learning content, educational means, and e-learning strategies. She organizes her own and learners' activities in e-teaching context, communication canals, selects e-teaching content and procedures. She initiates different e-resources applications and develops eteaching/e-learning and learning curriculum creates e-teaching scenarios. She motivates the students and cooperates with learners; uses indirect e-teaching communication creates clearly and individualized feedback. She makes direction to knowledge process by the e/learning programmers, makes directions to use the other links. She monitors students' progress and problem solving through the utilization of Eteaching material. She selects, classifies, reports about learners' achievement, dynamic of progress, difficulties in e-learning materials and creates procedures to monitoring learner achievement, evaluates and assesses learning process, analyzes the norms of e-teaching, evaluates the e/teaching contents and procedures. She mediates between the content and learners, uses ICT and e-technologies to mediate in process of learner learning, moderates between of the learners in teaching process. She supports students, supports the process of cognitive difficulties resolving, and directs the learners to use specific knowledge and skills without e-teaching. She explores the possibilities of improving work, learns course content, and learns about eeducation. Advantages of Having an E-Teacher Convenient-One of the key advantages of choosing e-learning over classroom learning is convenience. Students can learn from e-teacher whilst they are at home, in the library or on vacation. This prevents students from having to stick to a schedule and allows them to carefully manage the pace of their own learning experience. Time efficient-E-teaching is very time efficient as it eliminates the time you would need to spend on travel, introductions and breaks for students too. Also, students might not be on the same level in terms of knowledge, speed of learning etc. E-teaching is therefore more time efficient as also students can manage their own learning experience. Accessibility-Access to online resources, lectures and other study material 24 hours a day and 7 days a week can be seen as another major advantage. This is particularly useful to those students who need to read over the lecture slides again for revision purposes. Some professors and teachers may even tape their lectures, allowing students to listen to the entire lecture again, regardless of where they are located. Dynamic interaction-E-Learning technologies such as Moodle allow online discussions to be generated. A teacher may ask an open question to the students in order to make them think about a certain subject matter, in preparation for a test or seminar. These online discussions can be seen as highly valuable, as this not only allows students to think carefully about the question but also allows the teacher to reflect and provide feedback to the students. Creativity-There is no doubt that creativity is important in teaching and some argue that e-learning facilitates greater creativity as ideas, resources, knowledge, understanding and skills can be shared easily,
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