Preservice Teachers Preference of the NovaNET Instructional Delivery System among Ten Strategies

Abstract

A recent OTA Report places important demands on the preparation of preservice teachers from a technological perspective. Current programs are not sufficiently meeting student needs in relation to computer use and other teaching aspects. This study surveyed the computer utilization of sixty-five preservice early childhood undergraduates covering five CBI lessons via NovaNET, and their preference of CBI among ten strategies. Results showed that computer utilization is important with a similar, positive attitude toward them. The Kolb Inventory and a Strategy Preference Instrument relatedly revealed diverger and accommodator preferences with four strategies as the “most preferred.” College level instruction should give more serious consideration to innovative course designs with an emphasis on exposure and choice of computer variations, and other strategies of learning, hereby providing opportunities for learning styles to be more optimally accommodated.