Multimedia: a suitable tool for project-based education - a survey among Czech, Slovakian and German biology teachers

Abstract

Among 700 teachers of Biology and 360 pre-service teachers in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany a survey was made concerning the application of ICT in Biology lessons. The comparison of the three countries leads to a similar picture.

ICT is already widespread, and the teachers (both in-service as pre-service) see the necessity of using ICT. However, they feel lack of time as most important to hindering the development of educational materials.

Keywords

• Multimedial technology
• technical support
• project based education
• teachers´ beliefs