The Digital Literacy Lives of Early Childhood Educators: Perceptions of Collaborative Online Learning

• In Event: 28.063 - Early Childhood Teacher Preparation and In-Service Professional Development

Abstract

This explanatory mixed methods study investigated the role digital literacies play in the collaborative online learning of currently practicing early childhood educators (ECEs) to better understand the attitudes and skills that contribute to ECEs abilities to fluently use different modes of technology to engage in collaborative online learning. Generating quantitative survey and qualitative interview data, this study shares ECEs’ and instructors’ (higher education professionals facilitating ECE online learning courses) perceptions of what online learning supports and components are imperative for initial and sustained success in ECEs traversing and engaging in collaborative online spaces.

Author

• Emily Brown Hoffman, Ball State University