A case study of using e-learning in Hong Kong early childhood teacher education

World Wide Web is widely used in tertiary education in the new millennium. However, the majority of Early Childhood teacher education is still hesitating in the use of Web-based learning in their teacher training courses. Early childhood teacher educators may concern of various issues with regards to the use of Web-based learning, such as teacher educators¡¦ technology competencies, students¡¦ capabilities, people¡¦s attitudes, hardware, software, networks and time constraint. In this paper, there is a life case of adopting E-Learning in a group of undergraduate students in the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Most of them are the head-teacher in their early childhood centers. The E-Learning project applied the mixture of On-Line and Face-to-face delivery modes in a module. The feedbacks from the students were extremely outstanding and positive. This reveals that the E-Learning has its significant and benefits to in-service early childhood teacher training programme. Copyright © 2005 The Association for Advancement of Computing in Education.