E- learning on special education training

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic creates some emerging opportunities for E-learning, particurlarly in special education. 76 lecturers of 33 universities\colleges in the whole nation providing subject of incluisive education or specific subject for special education were participated into this study. The study result showed that the majority of lecturers have received the benefits of e-learning despite of the fact that level of understanding was not high. Due to limitations on facilities, equypments and online resources E-learning has considered as a temporary alternative teaching path in context of COVID-19. This study also indicated that lecturers desired to reveive such supports of platform, equypments, school policy and regulations to apply E-learning. Moreover, they expected to be trained on virtual teaching skills significantly in searching special education materials for their syllabus or applying support tools for assessment and manage learning process of their students.