Action research to promote ICT in teacher education Part of EUN-wp 16 case studies on innovative practices Dr. Sólveig Jakobsdóttir, KHÍ

Study - goals  Identify key factors in the successful engagement with ICT, and explore those factors through case studies and interviews with a stratified sample of teachers in training and in post.  Make succesful experiences more visible and promote ICT within the university through concrete examples  Teach faculty to use technology (netmeeting) that can facilitate assistance and collaboration (also like a “carrot” to increase likelihood of on- the-spot participation).

Study - method  Participants: Teacher educators at KHI were identified by departments heads and peers as practioners of different types ICT in their teaching.  Design: Action research model.

Study – procedure  Teachers identified contacted through phone & e- mail and asked to participate in an online meeting (using Netmeeting). This strategy will be used for the following reasons:  Participants asked permission to publish their descriptions under their name on a local web which will have a list of possibilities for use of ICT in teacher education and will be used to introduce such possibilities in different departments. And to have their description translated to be used in the EUN data base.

Study - instruments  Instruments: (Interview) questions (Frontpage data gathering sheet linked to Access database) – where people are asked to tell a story – how they have been using ICT successfully in their teaching and work, assess benefits, problems, effects of those practices, and give advice to others.  See (Icelandic) and (English)