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Second workshop in Slovenia

logart — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:26:22 +0000

On Wednesday, 28th of August we had our second workshop at Biotechnical Educational Centre Ljubljana. Teacher at Centre were very interested but had some doubts about the amount of time and work that had to be invested in ending the e-course. They are thinking about using parts of the e-course in their classes.

Woskshops in Spain

marias — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:58:07 +0000

Spanish team has developed two workshops. One was done in JUTE event in Bilbao in February and the other one was part of Novadors 2014, in Gandía, in July.

JEDI is a well known event about ICT and Education in Spain, where a lot of teachers from educational field go to share experiences and learn from other colleges. This event are organized and funded by two important Spanish institutions: the University of Deusto and Cátedra Telefónica, specially Aulablog, a project lead by innovative teachers in Spain interested in promoting the use of technologies in education and web 2.0 tools. Participants rated the course as very positive, mainly because is focus on VET field, because there are not so many experiences in this level. Regarding the course content, they valued very positively working by competences, like the course do, and the Open License that the course has, because it represents an opportunity to modify and contextualize the content. Some participants, after making a virtual tour of the course platform, face some difficulties, like the part of the blog of the participant, but they said that it was caused because they did not know that tool in Moodle. They said they liked the organization of the content and the way of assessment.

In Novadors, the workshop was very successful. We presented, using pechakucha style, the course. Later we developed some activities with the participants. They liked the course because they said it is focus on pedagogical aspects about e-learning, not only in technological aspects. They asked about the way the course will be distributed and they brainstormed about the best way to implement the course in their institutions. A discussion about online education emerged and they analyzed some Spanish online training proposals. When carrying out some activities, several VET teachers talked about the possibility of implementing some online activities from evet2edu course, like a way to introduce ICT in their traditional classes.

Spanish team are very happy with the workshops because they represent an opportunity to share ideas and communicate with VET teachers. We are preparing Webminars with the director of different resources centres in Spain by September.

Workshops in Lithuania

vidaz — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:58:21 +0000

On the 21st of February, 2014 Vytautas Magnus University team held the first exploitation workshop, which was integrated to the conference “Studies in Modern Society 2014″. Open Educational Resources approach was used and this could be mentioned as a positive aspect, because this topic is relevant for educators and attracted a lot of participants of the conference to come to the project workshop section. The course itself is OER, so OER idea together with the course was promoted. It also leaded to the discussion how teachers can use OER in their educational practice. Feedback from participants showed that teachers need more information on what are OER, OER benefits, CC licenses, under what terms they can use products with CC licenses.

On the 4rd of March, 2014 we had the second workshop at Kaunas Teacher Qualification Center. This center aims to fulfill the lifelong learning needs of educational institutions’ representatives, decision makers, teachers and other adult learners. Organizing workshop trough this institution helped us to attract representatives and educators from more than 20 various educational institutions.

Participants of both workshops showed their interest towards the course content and learning methods and reported their intention to re-use the content and learning methods of the course in their educational practice.