Innovations that empower teachers: the case of i-Spring to design tailor-made learning materials.

Abstract

Organizations must acknowledge the necessity of change and adopt diverse management strategies to swiftly adapt to the evolving technology and the new knowledge landscape. In the context of educational changes, an increasing value is placed nowadays on identifying renewed and effective approaches to teaching as the safest way to bring about not just students’ learning but growth, development and/or evolution. The strengthened emphasis on innovation as key to progress in today’s world has resulted in a widespread encouragement for teachers to pursue innovative initiatives that, in turn, will empower them. So, innovation practices will help those teaching practitioners who implement them to become increasingly empowered, and teacher empowerment is an essential tool for carrying out educational innovations. Notwithstanding this, each innovation, whatever the generation it belongs to, requires new knowledge, understanding, and skills and can therefore be perceived as demanding or even a bit intimidating, particularly technology-based ones.