ISSN 2167-0439
International Journal of Management and Business Studies ISSN 2167-0439 Vol. 6 (1), pp. 196-202, January, 2016. © International Scholars Journals
Full Length Research Paper
Emerging roles of teachers in digital eTeaching
Usama Ashkouri* and Zainab Chalabi Alshaibi
Department of Public Administration, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, KPK, Pakistan.
E-mail: [email protected]
Accepted 21 December, 2015
Abstract
Although the newly joining university teachers are coming with some prior knowledge and expertise in digital literacy, the existing lots of university academicians have to begin from the scratch, that is, they need a paradigm-shift from ‘teacher-to-eTeacher’ to survive and keep the pace with the new environments. This story is very true in the developing countries like Pakistan where computer literacy has just started taking grounds in Higher Education Institutions (HEI). The purpose of this paper is to juxtapose the facts and figures from literature with a view to constructing a ‘theoretical-framework’ that could be empirically tested in the future research. The emerging model suggests that departure from traditional teaching to modern digital eTeaching is intervened by a critical role of teachers’ digital-literacy.
Key words: Higher education institution, information and communication technologies, eLearning, eTeacher, digital-literacy.