Online Learning Tools for Promotion of Applicable Skills of (Prospective) Teachers: Development and Evaluation

• In Event: Friday Roundtable Session 3:05 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Enhancing Teacher Capacities Through Technological Innovation (Table 22)

Abstract

Complementing traditional teaching-learning approaches with innovative digital teaching-learning tools is becoming particularly important in higher teacher education. The demand for innovative instructional tools and formative assessments is required to be able to address highly heterogeneous student groups in a targeted manner. In particular, effective, high-quality learning tools are required to assess and foster applicable skills that are essential for complex teaching practice. Based on a developed and validated effective digital training tool for teaching economics, further multimedia cross-domain learning tools were developed and evaluated in a pre-post measurement with intervention and control groups (N=310 teacher students) among four German universities. After evaluation and optimization together with practice partners, these tools were implemented in German teacher education and uploaded online (OER).

Authors

• Katharina Depré, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

• Olga Zlatkin Troitschanskaia, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

• Sebastian Brueckner, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

• Christian Dormann, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

• Jasmin Reichert-Schlax, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz