Understanding the lived experience of ICT-trained teachers in online classes / Blanca A. Alejandro, Noremay B. Perez and Flora Mae Rivera

ICT in education is the mode that uses ICT to support, enhance, and optimize the delivery of information and make the teaching and learning process easy and interesting. Teachers who are ICTtrained are often expected to excel and exceed in their teaching compared to the non-ICT trained faculty. The fundamental reason for this appeared that ICT teachers were perceived as experts who knew everything about ICT. Many empirical studies have been conducted to examine issues in delivering online courses and the ICT teachers’ roles, however, limited studies focused on the experiences of ICTtrained teachers in teaching online in terms of delivery and preparation of instructional materials. It is then in this premise that the researchers investigated the lived experiences of ICT-trained teachers in teaching online. This study employed the qualitative research descriptive phenomenological approach. Results showed that ICT-trained teachers are equipped with ICT knowledge, skills and adapt easily to online classes. However, they also face different challenges in online classes. The teachers’ lived experiences focused on the following themes; Reassessment of ICT knowledge and skills, Feeling of pressure from colleagues and administrators, Adaptability to online teaching, Using of online tools and applications in teaching, Challenges in Online teaching, and Passion to acquire and share ICT skills. Hence, the administration may consider these results to guide them to improve teachers’ and students’ ICT skills.