The project was presented at the EDEN 2014 conference in Zagreb during the Synergy strand on June 11th, where synergies with similar projects were explored, and in the MOOCs and OERs section on June 13th, in which Agnieszka Chrzaszcz presented an article entitled “cMOOC in e-Learning Design for VET Teachers: Mapping Professional Competences Online”. The proceeding will be availiable in July.
Category Archives: Project activities
E-course & handbook released as OER
The main project results – the online course and the facilitator’s handbook – were finally released as Open Educational Resources. After 3 months of piloting phrase, the course and the handbook were revised and made available online under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license so that the resources can be re-used, copied and modified according to the needs.
Both resources are downloadable from evet2edu repository in 9 languages: English, Polish, Czech, Croatian, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Spanish, Italian and Norwegian. The original course was also open on Moodle platform where all localised versions are accessible as OER and can be browsed with no registration/login.
For more details, visit evet2edu repository.
1st exploitation workshop in Croatia
On May 30th CARNet team held the first exploitation workshop at the Agency for Vocational Education and Training and Adult Education, the institution in charge of the inservice training of vocational teachers. The workshop was attended by the representatives of the Agency, advisors for specific vocational areas.
E-course revised after piloting & finalised
In order to ensure the best possible project results, we asked our participants and course tutors during the piloting of the VETeL course in all the partner countries to provide us with regular feedback on individual modules, the design of activities and interaction, the time allocated for those activities, the quality of content, the usefulness and quality of moderation. Additionally, the course was evaluated by an external expert evaluator, who assessed the course design and provided the team with additional guidelines for improvements and revision.
Fourth partners’ meeting in Split, Croatia
On Thursday and Friday (27th and 28th of March 2014) we had our fourth partners’ meeting. It was held in a very beautiful Croatian cost city of Split. The meeting was very fruitful and we have accomplished a lot. An action plan for WP 3 has been prepared, as well as a course and handbook amendments. They are intended for exploitation, sustainability and for dissemination activities that will follow in next months. There is still a lot of work ahead of us, but the finished products will be very useful for all VET teachers and we are eager to keep up the good work.
Slovenia: We have finished
Well, not quite 
Slovenian students have successfully finished their work in the piloting of e-course “How to design and facilitate an online course”. In the last almost 4 months we had a lot of fun and we gain a lot of new knowledge. Course participants were teachers and they are all using new knowladge in theire classrooms. Together with their studets they have made a lot of new videos. If you like you can watch them in YouTube. Videos are in Slovene language, but pictures say a lot
What do we really look like? F2F meeting with PL learners
On Friday, 28.02.2014, we met our teachers after having finished the Polish edition of the course. It is just another evidence that the course is really cMOOC and it was great experience for us.
The idea of such a meeting had emerged during one of our videoconference in module 8. First the suggestion was to organise a closing video meeting to celebrate the success end of the course, but then one teacher asked why not to meet in real? And so it was. Continue reading
Pedagogocal design: quality and evaluation
Peer review is a well established practice. It has a reciprocal effect on the reviewer and the reviewee – they obviously both learn.We take advntage of this powerful method, but we aslo apply other measures to make sure the product is state-of-the-art.
Our course is extensively reviewed – by the partenrs, by critical friends, by the participants. We planned the development cycle, the piloting and evaluation as well as the refinement as important parts of quality assurance. So what stands behind this e-course? Continue reading
PL course completed
34 teachers from all over Poland completed yesterday the pilot cMOOC in “Designing and moderating online courses for VET”. 12 videoconferences, more then 400 blog posts, more then 20 forum discussion with over 800 posts. 40 e-tivities, hundreds of inspirations, tools and ideas to explore. Thank you for your help in designing this open course for your fellow teachers all over EU.
VETeL in Italy – Work in progress!
45 teachers signed up to participate in the testing of the Italian version of the e-learning course titled “VETeL”, 35 people started the course and 15 teachers are still active.
The teachers participating in the course are acquiring new didactic, pedagogical and technological skills, learning how to design an e-learning course for their students.
The course provides for an individual study, group activities and interaction between participants, teachers are currently dealing with Module 7, so most of the course has already been concluded. The Italian teachers who are keeping on participating are those who showed most interest in acquiring new skills/knowledge, sharing and dialoguing with others. Continue reading