Faculty Usage of the Active Leaning Classroom: Model of Teaching and Learning Styles

• In Event: Support Strategies for Student Learning and Development

Abstract

The study examines teachers' perceptions towards new pedagogy among college professors, after one year experience in a new Active Learning Classroom (ALC), designed for ICT enhanced teacher training. Data was collected via structured personal interviews. Mixed qualitative and quantitative analysis was used in order to recognized and classify teaching patterns, usage of pedagogical and technological innovations and barriers/facilitators to teacher ALC usage. The relationships between teaching patterns, demographic factors and professional factors were examined using TPACK framework as an underlining model. Data analysis identified four teaching patterns related to TPACK sub-forms and recognized a correlation between ALC usage frequency and teacher choices of pedagogical and technological traits in the classroom.

Authors

• Becky Leshem, Achva Academic College

• Orit Avidov Ungar, Open University of Israel & Achva Academic College