Novice Teachers Attitudes towards TELUM E-Training in Higher Education

Abstract

Training for novice teachers in higher education has been developed since the ministry of higher education has adopted a new updated way of training proposed by Mentouri University of Constantine (TELUM). The need to use technology in higher education is compulsory and widespread among all Algerian universities. Novice teachers have witnessed the traditional as well as the online training. The first one is related to the face-to-face training at Mohamed Khider University of Biskra. However, the latter one is related to TELUM e-training oriented by Mentouri University of Constantine. This step of training novice teachers is considered new and innovative to bridge new methods and techniques in order to involve them in teaching learners efficiency and effectively. We delve into the effectiveness of e-training for novice teachers by looking more closely at the nature of TELUM e-training and teachers’ attitudes towards it. The present contribution is based on a qualitative research in order to show the positive and negative aspects of TELUM e-training. The aims behind the present contribution are 1) what are newly recruited teachers’ attitudes towards TELUM e-learning? and 2) To what extent do their (teachers’) attitudes and objectives of TELUM coincide or diverge? To carry out the study, a questionnaire was sent via e-mail and shared on Facebook account to newly recruited teachers in order to collect data. The results obtained from the study are: TELUM is an online tool which newly recruited teachers develop their abilities in the domain of using technology and creating their course design in different platforms like MOOC, Moodle, etc. In addition, it provides online quizzes for learners. However TELUM organizers did not make a diagnostic test for newly recruited teachers to test their competences to use ICT.