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.

 
Jo Turner-Attwell interviewed several teachers who attended the workshops during the TACCLE launch conference

On Saturday October 17, 2009 TACCLE organises 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.  

During this launch conference the results of the TACCLE project will be presented to a broad audience of teachers, teacher trainers and everyone with an interest in education. The TACCLE handbook will be ready by then and will be distributed in Dutch or English to the participants of the study day.
 
The programme looks like this:
 
08u30    Welcome breakfast
09u30    Speech by the head of the department, Frank Naert.
09u40    Introduction by the governor of GO!, Raymonda Verdyck
10u00    Presentation of the TACCLE project by Jens Vermeersch and Peter Druyts
10u15    First workshop: eXe, Personal Brain, Podcasting, Smartschool, Web 2.0 toepassingen
12u15    Lunch
13u30    Second workshop: eXe, Personal Brain, Cartoons, Smartschool, Moodle
15u30    Guest lecture by Graham Attwell, director of Pontydysgu in Wales, on The Future of (e-)learning
16u00    Closing speech by Lieve Van den Brande, European Commission DG Education and Culture on the Comisson's views on the use of ICT in education between now and 2020.
16u30    Reception
17u15    End

The conference will be in Dutch and English. Participation (including meals and TACCLE book) is free of charge.

The conference is complete, unfortunately we cannot accept any more registrations.

With this in-service training our aim is to help teachers to develop state of the art content for elearning in general and for learning environments in particular. We try to achieve this by training teachers to create elearning materials and raising their awareness of elearning in general. TACCLE will help to establish a culture of innovation in the schools in which they work. The training is geared to the needs of the classroom teachers but teacher trainers, ICT support staff and resource centre staff may find it useful too! Pre-registrations for this course will close on September 15th.

Consult our course page for more information. (if you login you will see a pre-registration form on this page).