PREPAREDNESS OF TEACHER-EDUCATORS CONCERNING NATIONAL POLICY OF EDUCATION 2020

Higher Education all over the world is witnessing rapid change because of tremendous development and
transformation development and transformation shown in the field of technology. The vision for NEP 2020 is
“Technology use and Integration” in order to give a pathway for the students to make India a digitally
empowered society and knowledge economy around the globe.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the preparedness of Teacher Educators of the Konkan region
concerning NEP 2020, with regard to their level of professional development after 2020. And the use of ICT in
the teaching-learning process. A survey was conducted on 42 teacher educators in the Konkan region. The study
shows that teacher educators were comfortable with the use of certain applications such as PPT presentations,
internet, e-mail WhatsApp, etc. but they were not using higher level ICT in teaching. There were less numbers
of Male and female teacher educators who attended willing to attend Faculty development programs.
It is recommended that more training and professional development programs for teacher educators should
provide by the educational Institutions and also motivate them for prepared and equipped on the ICT integration
practices in teaching.