Share Paper: Innovative Practices in Teacher Education: Institutional contribution in developing a sustainable Online & Teaching Learning Framework

1. Anuradha Gungadeen, Mauritius Institute of Education, Mauritius

Abstract: Online education has been widely recognized as a channel for higher education institutions to scale up their student enrollment and to provide learning flexibility for non-traditional students (Clinefelter & Aslanian, 2015). Throughout the past decades, online learning has been the fastest growing segment of higher education (Allen, Seaman, Poulin, & Straut, 2016). “One of the strongest arguments for bringing new digital technologies into educational institutions is that, by doing so, we would trigger pedagogical innovation” (Laurillard, Oliver, Wasson & Hoppe 2009, p. 290). Technology-based education supposedly caters for students’ learning needs and fosters creativity, application, and life-long learning, necessary elements ...