Online Teacher Education and Interactive Technologies

This Element focuses on the role of interactive technologies in enhancing pre-service teachers' engagement with learning in online environments. It begins with a brief overview of the current state of teacher education, focusing on online teaching. This is followed by analysing the concept of engagement, underscoring its importance for pre-service teachers studying online. The Element explores various dimensions of engagement - cognitive, behavioural, affective, and other - and how interactive technologies can enhance these dimensions in online learning. A key feature of this Element is its exploration of key challenges that teacher educators and pre-service teachers encounter when using interactive technologies with practical recommendations for addressing them. The concluding section shifts the focus to the future, offering recommendations for how teacher education can use interactive technologies to 'grow' teacher educators who can engage their students. Throughout the Element, practical examples complement theoretical discussions to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Cognitive engagement; 3. Behavioural engagement; 4. Affective engagement; 5. Other types of engagement; 6. Where to from here?; References.

Product details

• Authors: Seyum Getenet, Eseta Tualaulelei
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.01.2026
• EAN: 9781009527309
• ISBN: 978-1-009-52730-9
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Elements in Critical Issues in Teacher Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, teacher training, Educational strategies & policy, Educational strategies and policy, Virtual worlds