Teachers’ Perception on the Benefits of Using Online Resources

Abstract

This research elaborates the perception of the teachers in relation to the benefits of using online resources in their educational activities, respectively the impact of the utilization of the platform “School Me” in the teaching and learning process. This was a longitudinal research and it included teachers of various subjects. The key research question tends to address the teachers’ insight for the benefits of using online resources. Taking into account that the nature of this study is of the evaluative character, a mixed methodology has been implemented by using questionnaires and interviews in order to study and analyze the problem focus. The results show that teachers have a positive attitude towards usage of the platform in their teaching, which also influences for their lessons to become more attractive and comprehensive for the students and easier for the teachers. As far as the usage of online resources for the students’ learning concerns, the findings of the performed research indicate a positive attitude of the teachers in schools for the affirmative impact that the usage of online resources has for the students’ learning. This research also indicated that there are still technical problems present which in many cases hindered the utilization of the online resources.