Teacher educators can develop e-content for future use.

1. “Attitude of teacher educators’
towards using e-content in
teaching”
Dr.Hoovinbhavi B L Sushma N Jogan
Professor & Dean JRF Scholar
DOS in Research & Education
Gulbarga University,
Kalaburagi-585106

2. Introduction
• Education system around the world is drastically changing to use new
information and technology.
• However, even today one of the greatest challenges of integrating ICT in
education is lack of e-content quality.
• E-content includes all kinds of content created and delivered through
various electronic media from ‘old media’.
• So, it is the need of the hour to encourage e-content at various levels of
education.
• It is more essential to provide e-content development for the teacher
educators.

3. Need of the study:
• The growth in Internet has brought changes in all walks of life including
the education.
• e-content includes all kinds of content created and delivered through
various electronic media from “old media”
• e-content requires huge amounts of creativity both at 'information' level as
well as the 'technology' level.
• E-Content can also be utilized as reusable learning objects.
• E-contents are basically a package that satisfies the conditions like i.e.
minimization of the distance, cost effectiveness, user-friendliness and
adaptability to local conditions.
• The possibility of such virtual reality can be made by generating good e-
Contents and accessible by all.

4. Operational terms defined:
• Teacher educators: they are educators who provide formal instruction or
conduct research and development for educating prospective and practicing
teachers.
• Attitude: A predisposition or a tendency to respond positively or
negatively towards a certain idea, object, person or situation.
• E-content: Electronic content is a digital content that can be transmitted
over a computer network such as the internet.
• E-journals: Electronic journals also known as e-journals, are scholarly
journals or intellectual magazines that can be accessed via electronic
transmission.
• E-books: A book that is read on a computer or other electronic device. A
book composed in or converted to digital format for display on a computer
screen or handheld device.

5. Objectives of the study
• To identify teacher educators’ attitude towards using e-
content in their teaching.
• To find out the difference between male and female
teacher educators’ attitude towards using e-content.
• To understand the need and importance of e-content in
teaching.
• To find out the ways in using of e-content in teaching
process.

6. Hypotheses
• There is a significant difference in teacher educators’
attitude towards using e-content in their teaching.
• There is a significant difference between male and
female teacher educators’ attitude towards using e-
content.
• There is a significant difference between arts and
science teacher educators’ attitude in using e-content.
• There is a significant difference in teacher educators’
attitude towards using e-content with respect to
locality.

7. Research Methodology
• Sampling technique: For the present study researcher has
used random sampling technique.
• Size of the sample: A sample of 100 teacher educators
selected from different colleges of Gulbarga city.
• Methodology & Tool: The study is based on Survey method.
Research tool was developed by Dr. S Rajasekar (2010).
• Statistical technique: Mean, SD and t test was used.
• Analysis & Interpretation of data: The collected information
from the data was analyzed statistically by using SPSS version
20. Following are the inferences ascertained.

8. Data analysis and interpretation
Teacher
educators
N Mean SD t Sig
100 1.58 0.496 1883.297 0.000*
*significant at 0.05 level
The above table reveals that attitude towards use of e content
in Teacher educators (N=100), Mean 1.58, Standard Deviation
0.496 and calculated t-value 1883.297 and obtained significant
value is 0.000 which is significant at 0.05 level. Therefore
above stated hypothesis is accepted.
Table 1 There is a significant difference in teacher educators’ attitude
towards using e-content in their teaching.

9. Data analysis and interpretation
*significant at 0.05 level
The above table shows that teacher educators attitude with respect to
gender, male (N=50), Mean 1.48, Standard Deviation 0.505 and calculated
t-value 2.048 and obtained significant value is 0.043, female (N=50) Mean
1.68, Standard Deviation 0.471 and calculated t-value 2.048 and obtained
significant value is 0.049 which is significant at 0.05 level. Therefore
above stated hypothesis is accepted.
Table 2 There is a significant difference between male and female teacher
educators’ attitude towards using e-content in their teaching.
Gender N Mean SD t Sig
Male 50 1.48 0.505 2.048 0.043
Female 50 1.68 0.471

10. Data analysis and interpretation
*significant at 0.05 level
The above table shows that teacher educators attitude with in discipline of
science (N=42), Mean 1.76, Standard Deviation 0.906 and calculated t-
value 3.995 and obtained significant value is 0.000, Arts (N=58) Mean
2.47, Standard Deviation 0.842 and calculated t-value 3.949 and obtained
significant value is 0.000 which is significant at 0.05 level. Therefore
above stated hypothesis is accepted.
Table 3 There is a significant difference between arts and science teacher
educators’ attitude towards using e-content.
Discipline N Mean SD t Sig
Science 42 1.76 0.906 3.995 0.000
Arts 58 2.47 0.842 3.949 0.000

11. Data analysis and interpretation
*significant at 0.05 level
The above table shows that locality of teacher educators, Rural (N=32),
Mean 1.66, Standard Deviation 0.865 and calculated t-value 4.064 and
obtained significant value is 0.000, Urban (N=68) Mean 2.41, Standard
Deviation 0.868 and calculated t-value 4.069 and obtained significant
value is 0.000 which is not significant at 0.05 level. Therefore above stated
hypothesis is accepted.
Table 4 There is a significant difference in teacher educators’ attitude towards
using e-content with respect to their locality.
Locality N Mean SD t Sig
Rural 32 1.66 0.865 4.064 0.000
Urban 68 2.41 0.868 4.069 0.000

12. Conclusion
• Content is the heart of learning and medium acts as nerves in that.
Although e-content development plays a key role in e-learning, it is
undoubtedly not an easy process.
• It requires expert knowledge in the subject area, patience in creating the
necessary objects that make up quality, interactive course where, and a
high sense of creativity in structuring and sequencing the topics to make a
complete whole.
• From this we can predict that e-content production enriches the e-learning
in a dynamic way. So, it is clear from the above analysis the results
indicate that teacher educators have favorable attitude towards using e-
content in their teaching.