TACCLE
Teachers' Aids on Creating Content for Learning Environments is a EU funded Comenius multilateral project.
Learning environments offer excellent opportunities for stimulating lifelong learning in both compulsory and adult education. The creation of high quality content for (personal) learning environments is essential for the successful use of e-learning. It is important to train teachers how to create such content and this is the main aim of our project: helping teachers to develop their own e-learning materials.
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Written by Hannelore Audenaert
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 |
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The research project “Learning 2.0 – the Impact of Web 2.0 Innovations on Education and Training in Europe” was launched by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) in collaboration with the European Commission Directorate General Education and culture (DG EAC) at the beginning of 2008. The project aims to gather evidence on the take up of social computing by European Education and Training (E&T) institutions, to understand its impact on innovations in educational practice and its potential for a more inclusive European knowledge society, and to identify challenges and bottlenecks so as to devise policy options for Europe decision makers.
One of the conclusions of the project is the following: ‘…teachers play a pivotal role in facilitating innovation in E&T. They are the ones who will have to drive change, advocating innovative learning practices and mediating between learners and institutions. Not only will they have to improve and constantly update their own digital skills and those of their learners, but, at the same time, they will have to ensure an accessible, safe, accommodating and functioning learning environment. They will also have to develop their pedagogical skills to implement more collaborative and learner-centered learning strategies. Learning 2.0 will only be successful if teachers are actively supported in assuming this critical role.”
TACCLE and ‘Learning 2.0 – the Impact of Web 2.0 Innovations on Education and Training in Europe’ have therefore a lot in common as TACCLE actively supports teachers in assuming this critical role by training them to create e-learning materials and raising their awareness of e-learning in general.
To read the final report of the project follow this link: http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC55629.pdf.
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Written by Hannelore Audenaert
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 |
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From December 2 until December 4, 2009 the 15th International Conference on Technology Supported Learning & Training was held in Berlin. ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN is the largest global e-learning conference for the corporate, education and public service sectors. More than 400 speakers from 38 countries shared their knowledge and experiences in 85 parallel sessions, as well as forums, workshops, seminars, plenaries and The ONLINE EDUCA Debate.
2078 delegates from 92 countries convened this year’s conference in Berlin. Among those 2078 delegates were 2 partners of the TACCLE project: Graham Attwell (Pontydysgu) and Koen DePryck (CVO Antwerpen-Zuid). They took the opportunity of promoting TACCLE and sharing experience on e-learning with other attendees.
You can read more on the conference on Graham Attwell’s blog: http://www.pontydysgu.org/2009/12/page/2/ (scroll to “reflections on ONLINE EDUCA Berlin”).
Both Koen and Grahams' presentations are available on Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/GrahamAttwell/digital-identities-and-personal-learning-environments
http://tinyurl.com/yjub57p
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Written by Jens Vermeersch
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Sunday, 25 October 2009 |
On Saturday October 17, 2009 TACCLE organised a one day conference on e-learning in Ghent (Belgium) at the Department of Trade Science and Science of Public Administration of the university college Gent. The conference was a huge succes with over 200 teachers participating.
A review of the TACCLE conference in Dutch is available on on Edublogs.be: http://www.edublogs.be/2009/10/17/taccle-het-e-learning-handboek
Graham Attwell was a keynote speaker on the TACCLE conference - Read his impressions on his blog: http://www.pontydysgu.org/2009/10/teaching-and-learning-with-technology
Jo Turner-Attwell interviewed several teachers who attended the workshops during the TACCLE launch conference
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 This Comenius project has been funded with support from the European Commission
(project number: 133863-LLP-1-2007-1-BE-COMENIUS-CMP). This web site reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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