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

eVET2EDU channel on YouTube

On the Polish eVET2EDU course we have already reached to the Module 5 where learners are facing the challenge of making short educational videos and publishing them on YouTube. They are getting on well and they are experimenting, arranging themselves online and thinking of e-tivities – which is important for us as facilitators.

Polish learners had already created 21 videos gathered in playlist within the official eVET2EDU channel. The plan is to create different playlists for each partners’ country with videos from Module 5. So more will come.

From the previous blog post you  already know the magnificent promotional video from Online EDUCA Berlin 2013 which was created by our Norwegian colleagues from HIST. This is another thing that can be found on evet2edu YouTube channel. If you are interested how we were working during 3rd meeting in Palermo or would like to see how Spanish team conducted the videoconference in Module 3, you will find recording from these events on YouTube as well. YouTube here we come!

Have a nice watching :-)

Towards the piloting: supporting multilingualism

Our multilingual e-learning environment is now up and running with multimedia, activities and assignments in 9 languages! The most time consuming tasks – translating and synchronising the subtitles and grapics is also done. Relatively easy task turned out to be rather tedious but the videos and graphics are definetly worth it. They are a crucial part of Module 5 dedicated to video-making, but you may find them also in Module 6 (re-use of content).

The registration form will be also multilingual so that teachers and trainers can easily create their accounts and sign up for the particular course.The recruitment is under organisation now in each country as the partners will run the piloting in different periods, from November ’13 till March ’14. Details will soon follow so stay tuned!

Report: User requirements and guidelines for e-learning in VET

After conducting more than 20 interviews with VET teachers and trainers and after analysing various cases and educational initiatives in all partners’ countries we are proud to announc publishing of fours important documents:

Guidelines and recommendations for e-learning in VET comprises cathegories of intervention identified from case studies and interviews analysis with description of teh relevant examples. It also refers to the e-learning course which covers the selected categories.

Appendixes:

  1. Executive summary from the research based on intervies and case studies analysis
  2. Report from the Interviews
  3. Report and description of the case studies in all partner countries