Moroccan Teachers’ Perceptions and Concerns about ICT Integration

Integrating technology into teaching practices often changes teachers’ work patterns. Thus, several studies have insisted on supporting such change by understanding teachers’ concerns. The present study adopts the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) as a conceptual framework to examine Moroccan teachers’ concerns about integrating information and communications technology (ICT). To this end, we relied on a self-reporting instrument for a sample of teachers (n = 382) from two Regional Academies of Education. Our findings suggest that the overall profile of teachers’ stages of concern (SoC) is that of “reluctant” non-users. This profile showed high percentiles for the first three SoC, a low consequence stage percentile, medium percentiles for the management and collaboration stages, and a tailing up at the refocusing stage. Furthermore, the results highlighted a positive relationship between teachers’ concerns about integrating ICT and previous continuous training on the one hand and the pandemic’s impact on their attitudes toward self-training on the other. In addition, significant differences in teachers’ concerns regarding teaching experience and age were found. Our study provides change leaders insight into teachers’ concerns about integrating technology which will help the field design appropriate interventions to reduce their limiting concerns

Remote Lab Experiments in Mechanic: The Compound Pendulum

In the teaching of experimental sciences, practical work plays a crucial role since it allows learners to transfer the knowledge acquired in theoretical courses into practical skills. For this purpose, laboratories allow learning by experience and aim at involving students, which reinforces learning receptivity. Recent years have seen an increasing use of online labs, including both virtual and remote labs, Remote labs, providing online interfaces to physical labs, allow students to conduct experiments with real-world equipment anywhere and at any time. This paper proposes a model of design, development and implementation of a remote manipulation in an E-Lab. It is the compound pendulum which is part of the handling offered to the students of the 1st year of university in the field of physical sciences. The aim of this paper is to make this approach available to allow more experiments on a digital platform in order to allow learning for all, independently of time and place

The Effectiveness of a Learner-Centered Pedagogical Approach with Flipped Pedagogy and Digital Learning Environment in Higher Education Feedback on a Cell Biology Course

This paper aims to examine the results of a survey of 292 first-year biology students to evaluate their perception of their learning environment, as well as their ability to handle an educational innovation such as reverse pedagogy and serious gaming integrated into a hybrid learning environment. We also present the approaches and steps that allowed us to validate our statistical study. We used a methodology to validate the instrument developed; using standard parameters, the mean and the standard deviation to describe quantitative data and percentages for qualitative data. The internal consistency of the scales was assessed using the correlation coefficient calculated after a one-factor analysis of variance as well as Cronbach's alpha coefficient (α). The scores show that the items and subscales have good internal consistency. In addition, it shows that the students are fully aware of their learning environment and the difficulties they encounter. They are motivated to embrace our pedagogical innovation. It, therefore, confirms our willingness to implement this pedagogical model for students in the coming years