Volume Two - Academic Conferences

Nazime Tuncay and Hüseyin Uzunboylu
This r esearch s tudies ar e i mportant s ince a g lobal e -learning c ourse m aterial based on t oday’s
teachers’ e -learning training needs w as pr epared. Following y ear; t eacher training c ourses will be
delivered via another VLE to English teachers in Turkey, England and Romania.
Collaboration with o ther r esearchers f rom ot her c ountries i s n ecessary f or t he g lobal p urpose of
fulfilling teacher training needs. T hus presentation of these ideas in several different conferences in
different c ountries is nec essary. R esearchers s tart with s mall s teps t o m ake bi g dr eams r eal. First
step i s c ompleted i n f our years; s tep by s tep i n c ountries t eachers e -learning t raining needs ar e
investigated c ollaboratively w ith ot her r esearchers. T he s econd s tep i s des igning u -learning c ourse
platform and t o del iver r esearches t o i mprove i t i n a uni versal l evel. T he t hird s tep i s t o de liver
significant p iloting i n an international c ontext a nd t he f ourth i s t o deliver c ourses t o t eachers f rom
Romania, T urkey, Greece, England and etc. Researchers’ dream is to bridge the e-learning divides
among t eachers. The dr eam begi ns with teachers who be lieve i n you and t eachers ar e t he ones
who will take massive action to make those dreams come true.
5. Recommendations
Further researchers for improving teachers’ e-learning skills and knowledge, answers to the questions
should be sought:
How can the available technologies be used more effectively to teach the e-learning modules?
How c an t he e -learning modules be assessed m ore ef fectively t o e nsure t he t eachers ha ve
reached the specified outcomes of the modules?
How can one adopt lessons learned from the modules to the classes?
How can more guidance and instructions for teachers in e-courses be included?
How can all these be distributed to other countries more easily?
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