E-learning Enhance the Roles of Teacher Librarians as Leadership in Collaborative Teaching and Learning

Abstract

Over the past 40 years, the evolution of the computer and Internet Communication Technology (ICT) has enhanced this increasingly information-driven world expanding rapidly. Once people starting to make use of Wi-Fi in communication, they can get information through their digital mobile device whenever and wherever they want. Confronting the rapid changes of ICT and the flooding of information, how to evaluate and select appropriate resources are not only the problems for the educators but also the necessary life-long learning skills for the learners. Moreover, compare with the state of the art learning resources, traditional mode of teaching and learning hardly provoke student’s interest in learning. Thus traditional mode of teaching and learning would hardly stand alone and remain unchanged. To implement e-learning, Government should not only have careful ICT planning and development. However, for the long term development, there should be sufficient funding for schools to acquire, update or upgrade all those necessary hardware and software. Besides that, for educational reforms, educators should be initiative and enthusiastic in understanding more about e-learning. Enhancing effectiveness in teaching and learning, they should think about how to incorporate targets of teaching with the resources and to make use of e-learning in provoking students’ interest and initiative in learning. Nevertheless, innovators encountered many obstacles and problems during the processes of adopting and implementing e-learning. Problems including : How to make use of mobile devices in teaching and learning? How to utilize mobile devices in facilitating learner's participation in learning activities? How to make learning and teaching more interactive? Despite all those problems, the critical one would be that most teachers were not well equipped with sufficient ICT skills. As a matter of fact, e- learning would be the trend and educators could not just keep watching without taking further action. To raise the effectiveness of learning, it is important that educators should be well-equipped themselves with the necessary competences in using mobiledevice and other related electronic applicants in teaching. With our practical experience presented in this paper, we hope to share how a teacher librarian act as a leader in implementing e-learning; to elaborate the strategies promoting collaborative teaching and learning in cross-curricula; to put the roles of “Information specialist” and “Teaching partner” in practice.