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Teachers’ Professional Development in the Digitized World

2. While-course data
◦ Interview for immediate impact
◦ Analysis of completed tasks and documents
3. Post-course Data
◦ Written report from the participating teachers in order to reveal the impact of the course on

their development
◦ Written report to reveal the impact on the institution

Data Analysis

The data collected from the participants through written reports and the participants’ posts on the social
media. An open, axial, and selective coding (Strauss & Corbin, 1998) was followed in the analysis. In
open coding, transcribed data was sorted out as sentences or larger groups sentences that contain single
ideas. A code was given to the emerging concept. The items from the open coding analysis were reduced
to concepts through axial coding. During selective coding, these concepts were then gathered as two
central categories (expectations and impact on professional development. The two central categories
were further divided into sub-categories, presented in Table 2 and 3 respectively.

Table 2. Central themes regarding participants’ expectations from the course

Learning to • As it will relate to how I can use technology in my classroom
Integrate ICT • To experience how technology can be integrated into classrooms
• In order to learn how to use it more effectively in my classroom
• To find an answer to how I can use technology better in my classroom
• By developing professionally, I want to learn how I can adapt technology into my classrooms
• To learn about new technological applications and reflect over how I can integrate them into my classroom
• To find technology-integrated applications from lessons
Self- • To improve myself and learn new things
Development • To update myself about technology and develop myself
• Promote my skills in the use of technology in education
• It will be informative for me
• To enhance my professional knowledge and competency
• To learn more about how students are learning in the 21st century and developing a perspective in order to teach
more
• To learn about alternative technology-based methods of teaching as it is needed in this century
• To share to learn and to self-develop
Curiosity • I am curious about technology and keen on generating through technology
• I love technology.
• I am always interested in trainings on the use of technology for educational purposes
• I have developed tremendous curiosity about using technology in lessons recently
Training • I want to run workshops in my school and share with them what is new about the use of technology
• To share what I have learnt about technology with my colleagues
Fun • To make my lessons more interesting and fun
• To teach in a way that is enjoyable and appealing to students
Awareness To raise my awareness towards educational technology
Motivation To increase students’ motivation to learn

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