Distance learning course for training teachers' ICT competence

Abstract

Nowadays teachers are required to meet social, pedagogical and objective requirements related to the information and communication technology (ICT). This is the main reason to pay more attention to teachers' training by means of ICT and render opportunities for them to get access to topical information, to learn while working. Distance education is one of the learner-friendly ways to give them the necessary knowledge and to develop ICT skills. The paper deals with a distance learning course designed for teachers who are working at secondary schools in Lithuania. The course is developed to improve teachers' computer literacy and educational skills of ICT application. The main requirements to regulating teachers' ICT literacy competence, the results of researches on ICT in education, the basic requirements and principles for creating distance education courses are also discussed. Finally, the structure of the distance education course is presented. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.