Teachers’ Challenges in Transforming the Digital Teaching in Cambodian Context

Vanna Ourn; Than Chhorn

doi:10.63381/jeilt.v1i1.52

Authors

Vanna Ourn Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU), State Secretariat of Civil Aviation
Than Chhorn National Institute of Education (NIE)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63381/jeilt.v1i1.52

Keywords:

Digital teaching, Transforming, Challenge, Digitalization, Digital skill, Competence

Abstract

This research addresses the challenges that teachers faced in the digital teaching process, with a focus on the digitalization of teaching. Digital transformation has challenged the teachers to guarantee the teaching quality. While the fast digitalization has handlined in the era of COVID 19 teaching, the challenges have been occurring for teachers to carry out the teaching process. To find out the teachers’ challenge in digital teaching, this study used the quantitative research method. The results of this research showed that digitalization made teachers challenged in teaching. This was a mean of digital knowledge, competence, and skills to process teaching. However, this offered the views on challenges of digital teaching transformation, determinants to challenge the digital teaching, trends of transforming the digital teaching, and challenges with digital teaching materials. In brief, this study significantly contributed the key perspectives of digital teaching to deal with the challenges in digital teaching.

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