Developing faculty competencies Final

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Developing faculty competencies

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This page originally authored by Claudia Celis (2009). Edited by Diana Wilkes and Barbara Mair (2010).

As it is widely known, the use of Information and Communications Technologies ICT is becoming one of the most important demands for teachers at every educational level. Nevertheless, the challenge of incorporating technologies into the teaching and learning process might not be as easy as it seems. It’s not just a matter of finding new resources and trying to use them as part of traditional courses, but it involves encouraging learners to interact with ICT equipment and Web 2.0 tools to enable them to co-construct their own learning. This makes them quite different from students of the last millennium.