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The development and evaluation of a professional development program for developing technology integration competencies of educational designers : a study in Indonesian Government’s Center for Education and Training

Zeno, Muhammad Farid (2012) The development and evaluation of a professional development program for developing technology integration competencies of educational designers : a study in Indonesian Government’s Center for Education and Training.

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Abstract:State Secretariat of the Republic of Indonesia (Setneg) is responsible for managing official state documents effectively and efficiently by integrating computer office application, such as mail-merge system. Setneg’s employees are required to attain sufficient skills and knowledge in using mail-merge system. In order to achieve that, Center for Training and Education of State Secretariat of the Republic of Indonesia (Pusdiklat Setneg) provides Management Official Documents (MOD) training. The MOD training should accommodate the regulation of managing official documents as training content and include mail-merge system as technological support. Besides, the training method has to be compatible with the real daily tasks of Setneg’s employees. However, educational designers at Pusdiklat Setneg who are responsible to design MOD training curriculum do not have sufficient skills in integrating technology, neither with the training content nor the method on the training curriculum. They also do not have sufficient skills in presenting the curriculum to the instructor, who will deliver the training contents. To eliminate the gap, a professional development program for educational designers was conducted. On the professional program Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework by Mishra and Koehler (2006) was introduced to the educational designers in order to describe their knowledge with regards to technology integration in training curriculum. The study found that educational designers’ TPACK in curriculum design and presentation changed after the professional development program. Educational designers’ technological skills and knowledge also changed after joining the program. The educational designers appreciated the professional development program as useful effort in order to enhance their competencies. Design-based research was selected as the research method for this study. Twelve educational designers at Pusdiklat Setneg were participated in this study. TPACK questionnaires and TPACK rubric were used as research instruments for data collection. The non-parametric Wilcoxon Signed-rank statistical analysis was used to analyze the data. Moreover, qualitative analysis was used to interpret the feedback form, reflection report, and researcher log book.
Item Type:Essay (Master)
Faculty:BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Subject:81 education, teaching
Programme:Educational Science and Technology MSc (60023)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/90629
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