Perceptions of the teacher's roles by prospective elementary school science teachers in a web-based biology course.

Web-based instruction was integrated into a course upon human biology

given to prospective elementary academy science teachers. The goal of
the investigation was to reveal the students' perceptions about the
teacher's parts in such a course. Data were gathered from the
teacher's forum and e-mail messages, students' e-mails, and
interviews. The findings revealed that the teacher's characters such as
guidance, mediation, management, provision of technical, and
emotional support, in addition to the provision of information were
well accepted by dint of the students. However, since the learners
rencountered difficulties in implementing independent (self-directed)
learning required in the web-based course, they emphasized