ATTITUDE OF PROSPECTIVE TEACHER EDUCATORS TOWARDS INCORPORATION OF ELECTRONIC LEARNING TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: AN EMPIRICAL APPROACH

Education system must respond to the changing needs of students and their teachers, just as business has reacted to its changing needs implementing employee training. Technological innovations are increasing the demand for altering the mode of transaction in the teaching and learning process and that in turn develop a significant impact on technology use expectations. It is the need of the hour that emerging technology of elearning must be adopted in the teacher education curriculum of all universities in India. Online learning play a major role in the success of any academic program and can provide an environment where virtual learning classrooms are use to create interactive interfaces and real time software can monitor every response made by the learner. E-learning would incorporate all educational activities that are cratered out by individuals or groups working online or offline and synchronously or asynchronously via networked or standalone computers and other electronic devices. The present study has been done so as to study the attitude of prospective teacher educators towards e-learning. Random sampling technique has been used in the selection of the sample of as many as 200 prospective teacher educators. The e-learning scale for measuring the attitude towards e-leanring has been constructed and validated by Prakash, S. The scale is in the form of a Likert type and has been distributed to them and their responses were collected and computed according to the objectives framed. The findings of the study revealed that the prospective teacher educators showed a significantly favourable attitude towards e-learning..