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:

DETVET Started Today

Today representatives of all DETVET project partners gatheded at Klaipeda University Continuing Studies Institute (KU CSI) to kick off the project. The welcome speech was made by by the director of KU CSI Ruta Marija Andriekiene and the opening presentation by Head of the Project Group Loreta Staskuniene.

Birute Jatkauskiene, the head of the of Andragogy Department of KU CSI gave a presentation titled Peculiarities of Andragogue’s Professionalization. All partners made presentations of the possibilities of improvement of education techniques for lecturers in different countries.

The aim of the project is to form an international sustainable partnership in order to improve VET teachers’ competencies in education techniques.

The objectives of the project are:

• to make an inventory, exchange, evaluate and disseminate the best in-service training practice, methods which enable VET teachers to acquire and develop their competencies focused on education techniques,
• to compare educational competencies development needs of VET teachers in participating countries,
• to test a chosen method in the partner institution or silent partner,
• to produce a Common Methodology Framework for the teachers from various fields of VET system enabling to reach an optimal efficiency when assisting students in learning process, also helping them in choosing adequate material and tools for their knowledge practical implementation.

The partners of DETVET are:

• Klaipeda University Continuing Studies Institute (KU CSI), Lithuania, coordinator
• Folkuniversitetet (FU), Sweden
• SDE College (Syddansk Erhvervsskole), Denmark
• Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), Finland
• The Municipality of Sant’Angelo in Vado, Italy
• Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic

There are additionally two silent partners, Training 2000 from Italy and Kaunas Vocational Training Centre for Business Specialists from Lithuania.

The project will run until end of July 2011. DETVET is a partnership project funded by the EU Leonardo da Vinci Programme.

VET = Vocational education and training
DETVET = Development of Educational Techniques in Vocational Education and Training

Pictured: The entrance to Klaipeda University Continuing Studies Institute