Study on the Improvement Remedy of Digital Textbook's Application from Pre-Service Teachers' Perspectives

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the problems of digital textbooks that are currently applied to model schools and to figure out the change of junior teachers' perspectives about the digital textbook for the school field. The data of the present study were collected by open-ended questionnaire twice from colleges of education at H University in Korea in order to investigate learner perspectives toward the application of digital textbook. The results of the study can be divided into several factors and problems and those factors can be identified from the perspectives of teachers and learners. First, it would be necessary to practice digital literacy during pre-service teacher training in order to improve their teaching methods and strategies. Second, pre-service teachers need to learn and practice more structural teaching methods through a digital textbook in order to activate learners' cooperation and collaboration.