Professional development of teacher educators: the eChange Project example

Abstract

The paper describes a professional development project which has the aim of promoting and supporting pedagogically sound use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in a faculty of education in a university. The professional development project, called the eChange Project, focuses on pedagogy first and technology second and supports the academic staff of the faculty in their development of appropriate strategies for use of ICT in their subjects. The paper focuses on the experiences and issues concerning the use of ICT which arose in the teacher education part of the faculty. It explores the layers of support that are required in the use of ICT in teacher education and analyses some of the issues concerning professional development projects with teacher educators. An evaluation of the success of some of the strategies used and a discussion of future directions for the project are presented.