eLearning Course on Child Psychology for the Primary School Teachers of Regent International College, Gampaha.

Abstract

A teacher is like a candle, it consumes itself to light the lives of children. A teacher acts as a mentor who guides the students. He must know the growth and development of the child and his requirements at different levels. Child psychology helps the teacher to study the abilities, interests, needs and adopt different techniques of teaching for effective communication. The aim of the project was to enhance the knowledge on child psychology by providing flexible learning environment to the teachers of the Pre-Primary School and the Primary School of the Regent international College Gampaha, who live busy life styles. In order to make effective course, requirements of it was identified by conducting needs assessment. By analyzing the collected data, it was identified that all the teachers have positive attitude towards developing the eLearning course. By getting support from subject matter experts and analyzed data, a syllabus was made with five modules. By following instructional design guidelines course was designed with content suitable for online learning environment. Different eLearning authoring tools were used for the course development in order make interactive learning environment.Free and open source eLearning platform, Moodle was used to implement the online learning environment. Course evaluation was done to identify the achievements and the drawback of the project. By analyzing the data collected in the evaluation phase, it was identified that the eLearning course on Child psychology met the requirements of the learners as well as the school.