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Using Technologies to Reduce Unequal Access in Teacher Training

In: Technology

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  • Kalpana Kannan

    (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)

  • K. Narayanan

    (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)

Abstract

This paper describes how technologies can be used to reduce the unequal access in teacher training in the context of an emerging economy like India. Data were collected from the large-scale synchronous distance mode teacher training workshops for engineering college teachers, undertaken by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), under the National Mission on Education through ICT from the year 2009 to 2013. The goal of these synchronous workshops is to improve the quality of teaching in higher education by training a large number of teachers in a short time. Unequal access and inability to improve outreach have remained as major constraints in conventional approach to teacher training, Statistical analysis of data about the beneficiaries and their feedback on training indicate that outreach of these workshops was good in terms of the number of participants, number of cities/towns, and number of states and colleges covered. Also, inclusivity in terms of gender, age group, location and educational qualification were well achieved, which usually is very difficult to achieve in a conventional face-to-face training. We compared the gender, age group, educational qualification and location of participating teachers in three workshops in the area of Computer science and engineering (CS) and three workshops in the area of Mechanical engineering (ME). The results indicate a clear difference in terms of gender, age and educational qualifications in CS and ME workshops. The comparison of results of Database Management System and Thermodynamics workshops after scaling up the number of participants show that there was not much change in the demography of the participants due to scale up. However, we observed that as the number of remote centres increased, the number of participants from rural colleges also increased, thus, reducing the gap between the urban and rural college teachers. Thus, by using technology one can reduce the unequal access in teacher training and teaching material.

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  • Kalpana Kannan & K. Narayanan, 2016. "Using Technologies to Reduce Unequal Access in Teacher Training," India Studies in Business and Economics, in: N.S. Siddharthan & K. Narayanan (ed.), Technology, pages 181-207, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isbchp:978-981-10-1684-4_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-1684-4_11
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