Press the Button: Designing Learning from Home – The Teacher's Willingness to Change the School Work Routine

Abstract

What are the challenges and prerequisites for successfully reshaping instructional practices for home-based or remote digital learning? The success of organizational change processes is largely contingent on the willingness of those involved. This article investigates the factors influencing teachers' readiness to digitize their daily work routines, particularly in terms of teaching and learning processes. A total of 72 teachers from vocational schools in Germany participated via the SmartSurvey App during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The quantitative analysis is structured across three levels: firstly, assessing how teachers adapted to the new reality of remote work; secondly, analyzing their readiness to navigate the new instructional landscape characterized by remote teaching and learning processes; and thirdly, exploring teachers' overall attitudes towards digital media and their competency in media-didactics, drawing connections to the remote utilization of digital tools. © 2024, Redfame Publishing Inc.. All rights reserved.

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Author Keywords

digital media Working from home attitudes towards digital media media-didactic competence remote teaching-learning process

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Author Affiliations

Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Funding & Acknowledgements

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG

Grant: WI 3597 / KL 3076

The project \u201ECompetence development in vocational enculturation processes \u201C(INTERCONNECT), on which this publication is based, is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under the grant number: WI 3597 / KL 3076. The authors are responsible for the content of this publication.

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Press the Button: Designing Learning from Home – The Teacher's Willingness to Change the School Work Routine

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