New Technologies in Education and Training

Information and Communication Technologies are being increasingly used to create richer learning environments. In all sectors of education from primary schools to adult education, in schools for pupils with special education needs and in colleges and universities, technologies are being used across the curriculum to enhance students’ experiences.

The use of technology and new media is crucial to involve new generation in education and facilitate their learning process. It is important to train teachers how to use at best technologies and design and create attractive learning environments, and build experience also to be exchanged freely with others.

The above concepts have been developed by Training 2000 and EU partners in previous Comenius project named TACCLE, which ends at the end of 2009. The outcomes of the project aim to train teachers and trainers to create e-learning materials and raise their awareness of e-learning in general in order to establish a culture of innovation in the schools in which they work.

The TACCLE handbook created for trainers and teachers supplying suggestions on how to implement new technologies (including web 2.0 tools) and e-learning in class is available online (please click here if interested!). You may be interested to know that an in-service training course “Creating your own e-learning content in school education and adult education” is also planned to take place in Urbino, Italy in April 2010 and it has been a great success, as we have 65 applicants from all over Europe! (Click here to read more about it).

This experience from the TACCLE project can be partially transferred to DETVET and further exploited through the involvement of the VET providers and trainers in partners countries.

Training 2000 is responsible for the development and organisation of Training for the Municipality of Sant’Angelo in Vado and as first dissemination event, has organised a conference with aperitifs and snacks at the University of Urbino on November 9th 2009, with 20 participants/trainers, experts, teachers trainers and university researchers/professors.
The best moments are recorded and presented to you here:

About questionnaires

As it was decided during the first meeting in Klaipeda - the leaders of this „workpackage“ Irena (KU CSI) and Iveta (Olomouc University) were appointed to create a tool for investigation - a questionnaire. The ideas for this questionnaire were also proposed by Elmo and they were based on the experience of the previous EMCET and TACCLE projects.

Iveta sent us a version of the questionnaire which is designed to find out the methods that teachers are using and also lacking in their work (Iveta‘s questionnaire).

In the meetings that Irena organized in our Andragogy department there were discussions that there should be a questionnaire shape allowing us to find out about the particular methods we are considering in our DETVET project.

We also believe that the partner offering a particular technique or approach should find out the questions or statements which are to be put in the questionnaire. We are attaching a scheme of this tool (CSI questionnaire) together with the statements allowing to reveal our – andragogic – part of teachers competences or skills. That could be an example how all the partners could fill in their parts, too, by formulating 5-6 statements. In any case – if you have any other and better idea – please let us know about that!

Could we expect each partner's contribution until December 7th?