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EUROTRAINERS - Self designing of e-learning |
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 Since
2005 institute equalita is participating in the project EUROTRAINERS in
the frame of the programme Leonardo da Vinci of the European Union. The
main aim of the EUROTRAINERS project is to create a training program
for instructors oriented to offer them the abilities needed for the
integration process of the technological tools in their learning
environment, so that they will be able to design, plan and distribute
training courses through Internet. This training programme will be
available in September 2007.
The emergence of new technologies is transforming teaching and
training in Europe from the traditional modes of education we have
known, and these changes mean that teachers and people in charge of
training at all levels and of all types now have to adopt new knowledge
and abilities.
Knowledge of ICTs are now an obligatory part of any teacher’s
professional curriculum, and must not be reduced to a few simple
notions that allow the teacher to use some of the technological tools.
On the contrary, it is a question of empowering teachers and trainers
to incorporate technological resources into their learning environment
and educational processes.
Educational institutions and teacher trainers face the challenge of
preparing the upcoming generations of teachers to be able to use these
new tools effectively in their teaching practices. For many teachers,
the only way of guaranteeing the acquisition of these resources and
expertise is to take part in educational programmes.
Priorities:
- Teacher
must have then knowledge and skills to use the new digital tools and
resources to help students achieve high academic standards
- Classrooms
and educational establishments are better equipped in regard to
technology and communications facilities. For that reason, it is
essential to provide the teachers with competences required to apply
this facilities into their teaching environments. In this way, it is
vital to provide competences related to content, pedagogy, technical
issues, collaboration and communications techniques within the
educational environments and day to day academic activities.
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Therefore, in order to reach this development level of the new
abilities and competences, we are not only suggesting to use the
technologies but also to adopt new working methodologies able to be
integrated with those already existing and also able to generate new
pedagogical models that guarantee a high quality educative level in
every European country.
 During
the process, we will deal not only with those technical competences
oriented to carry out the entire process of elaboration and
establishment of an on-line training course, but also we will tackle
those critical and relevant competences needed to guarantee the success
of an on-line training process such as the teacher’s ability to
organize, manage, moderate, communicate and lead working groups through
the creation of collaborative methodologies.
At the same time, we will establish a common reference framework for
all the participant partners, in relation with the analysis methods of
the European instructor training needs in the ICTs, as well as in the
elaboration of the training program meant to provide the competences
and abilities that have to be part of the professional profile of any
instructor wanting to use the new technologies in his/her educational
environment.
The training program is designed according to an entirely practical
methodology, so that the instructors participating can acquire the
adequate competences and, at the same time, can put them into practice
through the development of training projects directly applicable in
their educational environments and organizations, once the project is
completed.
In order to ease this process and the accomplishment of the expected
objectives, the project partners will use the NETcampus e-learning
platform as a supporting technological resource in order to back up the
teacher training process and the beginning of their training
experiences generated as the result of the development of the
assessment activities proposed during the training process.
More information you will find at the project website: http://www.eurotrainers.org
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