There are plenty of researches and articles looking into the advantages of educational technologies, but not many of them mentioned about the disadvantages of educational technologies and how the new technologies may causes teacher burnouts. Therefore, I want to talk about the issues of new technologies on teaching profession and how it linked to teacher burnout. In my first blog, I said that I want to talk about this problem happened in primary school, but when I am doing my research, I found that there are only a very tiny amount of researches talking about this issue. This situation started to give a feeling that I might hit the dead end pretty soon if I only looked into the connections between educational technologies and teacher burnouts in primary schools. Besides, teacher burnouts do happen to teachers across different levels of education.
Hogan & McKnight (2007) used surveys to collect and analyze data to identify and describe the status of burnout among higher education online instructors, and they found that online instructors possessed an average score on the emotional exhaustion sub-scale, high degree of depersonalization, and low degree of personal accomplishment. (Hogan & McKnight, 2007, p. 117) Meanwhile, it is quite interesting that McCann & Holt (2009) stated that there were appreciable differences in syndromes for burnout when comparing online and traditional teaching methods among university professors, and it appears that the online instructor is less stressed than his/her face-to-face counterpart.
The two articles above are specific to the burnout of university instructors related to educational technologies. I will keep looking for articles about teacher burnouts from other levels of education.
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Hi, Lincy:
I am so interested about your topic. In your topic , you compare with the working state of online teacher and off-line teacher. The offline teacher is almost burn-out because they have too much pressure in their real life. So wish u have a great job!
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