Digital Technologies and Innovative Learning Environments in Schooling: A New Zealand Experience

Innovative learning environments in New Zealand: Student teachers’ perceptions

“…Equally, however, motivation and self-regulation will be an issue for children in any learning context – educators around the world trying to support children learning at home during the COVID-19 pandemic are just as much in need of strategies to keep the learner focused on their school work. The quantitative data suggested that some of those with more experience of ILEs understood the importance of training in the use of these tools, and similar views about the usefulness of digital tools in ILEs have been reported by New Zealand teachers (see Fletcher et al 2020 ).…”

“…The present study reports student teachers’ perceptions of ILEs. The perceptions of the student teachers can be contrasted with our previous research considering teachers’ and school leaders’ perceptions of factors related to ILEs (Everatt et al 2019 ; Everatt and Fletcher 2019 ; Fletcher et al 2020 ). An emerging finding across these studies that encompassed the perceptions of student teachers, teachers and principals was that the more experience a teacher, principal or student teacher had working in an ILE, the more likely they were to be supportive of the advantages of ILEs.…”

“…(Tables 1 and 2 in the results section present the statements used in the current analyses.) The statements were developed from a prior national questionnaire of school leaders and teachers (Fletcher et al 2020 ) and from findings of earlier case study research on ILEs (Fletcher et al 2017 ; Mackey et al 2017 , 2018 ). Opportunities were also given for the respondents to provide comments to clarify their perceptions, providing more qualitative data to support the findings of the quantitative analyses.…”

“…This provided an opportunity to explore the views of student teachers about these environments, many of whom will also have experience of a more traditional single teacher classroom environment. It also provided the opportunity to discuss these views in the light of those of teachers and principals about the same environments by using a similar questionnaire instrument to that used in previous research (Everatt and Fletcher 2019 ; Everatt et al 2019 ; Fletcher et al 2020 ). Given that the previous research focused mainly on primary school staff, the current research focused on student teachers training to be primary school teachers.…”

Curriculum Development Based on Online and Face-to-Face Learning in a Saudi Arabian University

“…Blackboard and eCollege technologies are today offered in online courses (Al Zoubi & Alzoubi, 2019). A rapid increase in online course offerings has been seen in universities and community colleges in the last decade due to the advancement of social, societal, and economic developments (Fletcher, Everatt, Mackey, & Fickel, 2020;Harrell & Bynum, 2018;Nahar & Chowdhury). This research aims to analyze student perspectives regarding curriculum development based on their online and face-to-face learning experiences.…”