Sultan Qaboos University Collage of Education Teaching and Learning Technologies

Graduation Project Final Report

Designing E-training Environment for Teachers

www.bawabatsahl.weebly.com

Submitted to: Dr.Ahmed Abdulraheem Done by: Ateka Al Saqri (86205) & Sara Al Hattali (87628)

Table of Content No. subject 1 Project Overview Project Title Project Description Project Features Target Audience Why we choose this Project 2 Needs Analysis Used Tools Actual Status Desired Status Gab & Need Reasons of the problem Suggested Solutions The Implemented Solution The reasons for adopting this solutions 3 Goals analysis 4 Performance Objectives 5 Learners and Context Analysis Learners Analysis Context analysis 6 Formative evaluation Designer review Subject matter experts review One-to-One review 7 Summative evaluation 8 Appendices Appendix 1: Storyboard Appendix 2: (Need assessment Questionnaire) Appendix 3: (Pre & Post test) Appendix 4: (Workshop Evaluation Questionnaire) Page 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 7 7 7 8 8 9 9 11 11 15 15 17 20 20 20 20 21 25 25 28 29 30

1. Project Overview
Project Title: E-training environment for teachers (Bawabat Sahel).

Project Description: This project tends to design an E-training environment for all Omani school teachers. This online environment will make teacher training easy and continues. It will focus on modern teaching strategies and methods for integrating technology in teaching. This environment will be designed on a website and divided in three main sections: - Instructional Programs Section: This section has an integrative training programs for four instructional programs used in designing and presenting the learning content: Prezi Adobe Captivate CourseLab ActivInspire - Teaching Strategies Section: This section will train the teacher on four modern teaching strategies: Discovery learning Problem Solving Brain Storming Project-based learning - Technology integration Section: including: How to create Online Quiz and Online Survey Facebook, Twitter, and other technologies.

Project features: 1. First e-training environments for Omani teachers. 2. It support teacher self training.

3. It has an integrative training programs in three sections (Instructional programs, teaching strategies and integrating technology). 4. It has all the training topics in one place 5. It makes the teacher training process more easy and continues. 6. It offer training for all teachers anytime and anywhere.

Target Audience: This project seeks school teachers, in all Specialties. We will offer an Etraining environment for them which is more flexible, attractive and useful rather than traditional training thats already offered from the ministry. And that makes teacher professional development possible anytime and anywhere.

Why we chose this project: We know that teachers need a continues training in developing their skills and knowledge, and this constitute a major challenge for education systems around the world. In Oman, the Ministry of education offers various workshops for training, but all of them are provided in a traditional way. Because of that, teachers are having a hard time getting out of their classes during the school year to attend these traditional workshops. And this is our main reason to choose this project. We want to design a training environment for teachers and make all the workshops available online, so teachers can access to them anytime and anywhere, without major disruptions to the job of teaching. E-training, or online professional development, offers a various potential for teachers to stay in their classrooms while meeting the constant skills, improvement needs and inherent in the teaching profession.

2. Need assessment:
Used tools:
1. Observation: Training is very important in developing teacher's skills and knowledge. And because we observe that all workshops offered from the ministry are traditional and that does not meet teacher's needs any more. Teachers' need to access to their training anytime and anywhere without having to leave their lessons and students to have a workshop in a specific place. Also, it is better to have all the training topics in one place, so teachers can just be trained in the aspect they need, and that is the idea of our project: "teachers self training". 2. Questionnaire: We have conducted a questionnaire to investigate the need of etraining for Omani teachers. We make it online and communicate with MS. Shikha Al Hadhrami from the educational technology department in the ministry to provide us with teacher's emails and send the questionnaires to them. Also we print it and distribute it to teachers in some schools. We asked them if they prefer e-training over traditional training. Most teachers said that they need e-training because they will be able to have it anytime and anywhere even at home, also they prefer e-training because all the course materials will be available online. A summary of questionnaires results is provided below:

(Chart 1) Summary of Questionnaire Results

25 20 15 10 5 agree 0 neutral not agree

Chart 1 above displays a summary of the need assessment results of the project. It shows that the majority of respondents agree that there is a need for e-training environment for teachers. In the first statement about 83.3% agreed that they really need an e-training because they will not have to leave the school and go to the workshop place. In the fourth and eleventh statement most respondents said that they didnt have any etraining before either on teaching strategies nor in technology integration. About 50% of respondents agreed that time needed in etraining is less than traditional training; also in the fifth statement only 8.3% agreed that e-training leads to a complete understanding of a teaching strategy. And we assumed that they said so because they havent tried e-training before.

3. Interviews: We also interviewed some teachers to know if they have taken any online training before, they said that they havent take any online training courses before and they said that even traditional training is not available for all teachers.

Problem analysis:
Step (1): Summarize the actual and optimal situation Current Status: The Ministry of Education doesn't provide continues training for teachers. Most teachers that we have interviewed didnt take training for a long time. Also, we notice that there are no online courses provided by the ministry and all courses are traditional. Desired Status: Make training available online for all teachers anytime and anywhere. Step (2): Identify the gap and need Gap: No online courses are provided and no continuous training is provided for all teachers. Need: Teachers being able to get training anytime and anywhere.

(Chart 2) Identify the Gab and the Need

Step (3): Determine performance problems and causes 1. The Ministry does not provide continuous training for teachers. 2. The Ministry does not provide training for all teachers. 3. Teachers have to leave their classes during traditional training. 4. Traditional training needs more time and effort. Step (4): Determine solutions In order to fill the Gap and achieve the optimal situation, there are some suggested solutions: 1. The Ministry should provide continues training for all teachers.

2. E-training environment should be designed to make the training process easier and available anytime and anywhere. The Implemented Solution & reasons for adopting it: The best solution is to provide e-training environment for teachers. This e-training environment provides integrative training programs in different aspects that teachers need, so they will get trained and then they will given accredited certifications from the ministry. We choose this solution and this delivery method because of some reasons that will be presented using ACTIONS model: 1. Accessibility: all teachers can access to the website and get trained anytime and anywhere. 2. Costs: e-training costs are few comparing with traditional training. In traditional training, they will be costs for sitting the place with all the requirements, for gathering the teachers, printing the materials and providing trainees other needs. 3. Teaching and Learning: It enables teachers in all specialties to have the training they need online without having to leave their classes. 4. Interactivity and User-friendliness: Bawabat Sahel website is designed to be user-friendly. It is divided into three parts; teachers can choose the part they like to get training on. Each part is organized by a set of steps trainee should go through to complete the course. Also a clear instructions is provided to guide the trainee through the process. 5. Organizational Issues: the website can reduce the costs needed for teacher training.
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6. Novelty: designing an e-training environment for teachers and make it accredited by the ministry is new in Oman. 7. Speed: because this training environment is delivered though a website, teachers can get training they need fast and easily.

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3. Goal analysis:
The aim of e-training environment is to assists teachers at schools to acquire certain teaching skill through E-training environment. This will help them to make learning more fun and met learner's needs by using technology.

4. Performance Objectives:
After using E-training environments, teachers will be able to: Apply different modern teaching strategies Design content with different instructional program Integrate technology in teaching develop positive attitudes toward E-training environment

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Goal Analysis (Chart 3) Goal Analysis

Designing E-training environment for teachers

Teachers will be able to acquire certain teaching skills through Etraining environment

Teachers will be able to use skills in teaching

Teachers will be able to develop positive attitudes toward E-training environment

Use instructional program

Use modern teaching strategies

Integrate technology in teaching

Convince to use Etraining environment

Be aware of the benefits of E-training environment

Adobe captivate

Problem solving

Online quiz

Prezi
CourseLab

Discovery

Online survey Different websites help teacher in teaching

After teachers training, they will have positive attitudes to E-training because:

Project Based learning Brain storming

Access any time Anywhere No need to leave school

ActivInspire

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Basic skill in computer

Basic skills in internet

Objectives Domain

Domain

Motor
Teachers will be able to apply instructional programs Teachers will be able to apply modern teaching strategies Teachers will be able to integrate technology in teaching Teachers will be able to use skills in teaching

Attitudes
Teachers will be able to develop positive attitudes toward E-training environment

Objectives

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Objectives
Teachers will be able to acquire skills that need it in teaching. Teachers will be able to Apply different modern teaching strategy

Type of Objectives

Steps

Teachers will be able to Design content with different instructional program

Teachers will be able to Integrate technology in teaching

Verbal Teachers will join the e-training environment and then read the instructions of using E-training and then start their training. Intellectual Teachers will join teaching strategies section and it include: overview Objectives Strategy Explain Strategy implementation Links Intellectual Teachers will join instructional program section and it include: Overview Objectives Example Lessons Assessment Project Links Intellectual Teachers will join integrate technology section and it include: Online quiz Online survey Other websites Attitudes After teachers training, they will have positive attitudes to E-training because they can access anytime, anywhere and no need to leave their school and their lesson, also it very easy to train online.

Teachers will be able to develop positive attitudes toward E-training environment

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5. Learner Analysis:
Learner Characteristics: 1. Entering Behavior Audience: Description: Teachers should have basic knowledge and skills on using computer and internet, for example: -Computer operation skills. -How to browse on the web. -How to navigate though the website. -How to open the links. They may have to know what each section is referring to; otherwise they dont have to know about the courses contents because they will get training on them. Teachers should have positive attitudes toward E-training and trust the benefits they will get from it. Teachers are interested in Elearning because: -They can access to it anytime and anywhere -All training topics are at one place. -All training materials are available. -If the ministry agrees to adapt this project,

School Teachers in all Specialties

2. Prior Knowledge of Topic

3. Attitude toward Content and delivery system

4. Academic motivation

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5. Educational ability level 6. General learning preferences

7. Attitudes toward the organization 8. Group Characteristics

certificates will be given for teachers. Teachers with different educational abilities. Mixed learning styles and preferences: Audio, visual and kinesthetic. Teachers should have positive attitudes toward the Ministry. - All of them are school teachers - Mixed gender - Teach different subjects - Interested in technology

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6. Learning Context Analysis:

Context Analysis:
Environment

Description:
- Schools (Computer labs and Learning recourses centers) or Computers at homes. - We will contact the "Human Recourses Center at the Ministry and provide them with the website. - Instructions are provided for trainees at each step. - Ways of interactions are provided: Email, Facebook page and twitter account. - Any place with computer and internet connections. - Gender: Male and Female teachers. - Age: Different ages, new and old teachers. - Economic: Different economic levels. - Culture: All teachers are Omani; non Omani teachers can also use it. During this project, we have encounter some constrains: - We spend a lot of time in choosing a name for the website; we want it to be funky and different. Finally we chose "Bawabat Sahel". - Preparing a big amount of tutorials in a short period of time, we overcome this problem by organizing our time and try to finish everything on time. - We needed to use some photographs in the website, so first we took the photos but we didnt get the quality we desire so we took the photos again in "the Educational Technology Center" Photography department.
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Distributed Point

Managerial Support

Physical Aspect of the work place Social Aspects

Constrains

Collecting Data

- We want to design an animation to explain how each teaching strategy can be implemented in class, to overcome this problem we contact a professional animation designer from Orkid Designing Company. - In designing the website, we use weebly.com, and we couldn't use all of the features because some of them are not free. - In project implementation, only few teachers attended and that course a problem for us because we desired to implement the project in a large sample of teachers. - Resources for collecting Data:
We use different resources to collect our data, mainly we used this websites: moe.gov.om Adobe.com Prezi.com Courselab.com prometheanplanet.com Youtube.com Our lectures on Teaching Strategies course.

- Software used to develop the program:

Camtasia to design the tutorials Photoshop to edit the pictures Flash to design the animations Presentation tube to design the explanations. Captivate to design the Demonstrations Weebly.com, to design the website
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Format Factory MS Office Facebook and Twitter

- Human resources:
MS.Shika Al Hadhrami from Ministry of education MS.Kadija from Orkid designing company. Photographer Mohammed from the CET. Subject Matter Experts. Designer Experts. Our departments Doctors. Students.

Factors that facilitate this project

- There are some factors that help me to complete this project:

We have studied some of the programs in some courses. We already have teaching practice this semester, and that help us in the need assessment and the evaluation of the project. Contacting with some teachers from the Ministry, especially from the Educational Technology and Human Resources Departments. Contacting some experts from the CET, especially from the photography and Video and Sound Departments. Contacting some experts from Twitter.

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7. Evaluation:
1. Formative Evaluation:
The table below summarizes the considerations regarding my project that I collect using different methods. Stages Designers review Considerations - More instructions before the site sections - Bigger videos size - Buttons to move to the other section - The objectives of your project are not so clear. - There are some technical problems that need your attention - Some language mistakes. One-to- One review - Need more examples - add the ability to download the tutorials Improvements - Added -Size changed - Added - Clear objectives & instructions at the main page are added. - Fixed

Subject matter experts review

- Corrected

- Added

- Cannot be added because they are uploaded to YouTube, They can be downloaded from YouTube - Need more instructions - A trainee guide were to the trainees added to the website

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2. Summative Evaluation:
Workshop evaluation: We implemented our project in "Asilah bint Qais" School. We presented our website to a sample of teachers in different specialities. This implementation includes: pre-test, post-test and workshop evaluation. Pre-test: At first we give teachers a pre-test to measure teacher's prior knowledge about our project content. The chart below represents the results of the pre-test:
(Chart 4) Pre-test Results
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

This chart shows the result of the pre-test .This test includes two sections, the first section is about instructional programs and the second about instructional strategies. Each section includes two questions. The first question from programs section show that 50% answered correctly and 50% answered wrong. In the second question 50% answered correctly and
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50% answered wrong. In the third question, most of teachers answered wrong about 66.6% .The last question all teachers answered wrong.

Post-test: Teachers start to use the website and explore its sections. Then, we give them a post-test. The chart below presents the results of the post-test.
(Chart 5) Post-test Results
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

This chart shows the result of post-test. The questions in the post-test are same with question in the pre-test because we want to measure the effectiveness of our E-training environment. In the first question, no one answered it wrong and all teachers did good job. In the second question, 50% answered correctly and 50% answered wrong.83% of teachers answered correctly in the third question and about 66% answered correctly in last question. In general, we observe that teachers did good job with online training.

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 Workshop questionnaire:
After having the pre-test and the post-test, we gave the teachers a questionnaire to evaluate the website.

statements

Frequency & percent Frequency percent Frequency

Agree neutral

Disagree

6 100% 6 100% 5 83.3% 5 83.3% 4 66.7% 4 66.7%

0 0.0 0 0.0 1 16.7% 1 16.7% 2 33.3% 1 16.7%

0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 16.7%

The use of website is easily

The content of website is clear

percent Frequency

The goals of website is clear The website sections is proper

percent Frequency percent Frequency

The website's recourses is useful percent After I use e-training website, I prefer it rather than traditional training. Frequency percent

This table shows the result of workshop evaluation of our project .In general, it shows that teachers agree with E-training environment and they prefer it rather than traditional training. The first statement is "The use of website is easily" and all teachers responded agree with this statement. Also, all teachers in the second statement responded agree. In the third statement, about 83.3% of teachers' show thats the goals of the
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website is clear, while 16.7% of teachers responded neutral with this statement. The forth statement is "The website sections is proper" and it show that 16.7% of teachers responded neutral with this statement and 83.3% of teachers agree with it. The statement The website's recourses is useful" it show that 66.7% of teachers agree with it ,but 33.3% of teachers responded neutral with it. The last statement is very important and it is " After I use e-training website, I prefer it rather than traditional training" .this statement show that 66.7% of teachers agree and that mean they prefer online training and it make their training more easy ,but one of teachers disagree with this statement .

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:3. Appendixes
)Appendix 1: (Storyboard of the website Main page

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:Programs pages

:Teaching Strategies pages

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:Technology integration in teaching page

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