Educators' Acceptance of Online Platforms for Personal and Professional Development during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Autor/inn/en	Wijewickrama, Bhashini N.; Wickramasinghe, Vathsala
Titel	Educators' Acceptance of Online Platforms for Personal and Professional Development during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Quelle	In: Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 11 (2022) 3, S.331-349 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wijewickrama, Bhashini N.) ORCID (Wickramasinghe, Vathsala)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2147-0456
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Teacher Attitudes; Online Systems; Faculty Development; Individual Development; COVID-19; Pandemics; Electronic Learning; Emergency Programs; Distance Education; Teacher Behavior; College Faculty; Sri Lanka + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Lehrerverhalten; Online; Individuelle Entwicklung; Hilfsprogramm; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Teacher behaviour; Fakultät; Ceylon
Abstract	With the pandemic, academic activities of education institutes such as teaching, learning, and assessment as well as programmes targeted for educators' personal and professional development have been transformed to online from physical mode. The use of online platforms has become an essential pedagogical tool. This study investigated educators' acceptance of online platforms for their personal and professional development during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka. One hundred and ninety-nine responses were received for the survey, and data were analysed using statistical methods. The study found the importance of belief structures- attitudinal, normative and control beliefs, and attitude toward the behaviour, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control in determining educators' acceptance of online platforms for their personal and professional development purposes. This paper concludes with a discussion on implications of the findings for theory and practice on educators' acceptance of new technologies for teaching and learning purposes. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Uludag University, Education Faculty, Department of Educational Sciences. Bursa, Turkey. e-mail: jtee.editor@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.jtee.org; Web site: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jtee
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01