Cloud Computing for School Networking & Learning
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
This project aims to improve the quality of learning and teaching in small rural / dispersed schools in Europe, by exploring, adapting and improving several innovative European ICT based methodologies, that allow to respond to the different needs that teachers face when designing their classes, as well as improving their professional competences. The Consortium counts on a relevant background in innovative methodologies using ICT applied to rural / dispersed schools. (Galicia-Spain in cloud computing applied to rural schools, Denmark in a project aimed at analising parallel teaching in small island schools and ICT project, Parma (Italy) with “Scuola@Appennino” project, addressed to all schools located in mountain areas, to encourge the adoption of innovative teaching methods with the aim to expand, increase and diversify in educational programs of the schools located in region). It represents 6 European regions that have a large number of rural, island or isolated villages, with dispersed school population. This project also focuses on providing an active ICT based learning community for rural schoolteachers, which will help to develop teachers’ skills and implement appropriate methodologies. Research specialists in rural education agree that this type of school requires specific training for teachers to be able to cope with grouping of students from different levels, maximizing the possibilities of personalized education that it can bring, using ICT for differentiation in the individual classroom as well as across classrooms - locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. ICT is a key to providing support, training and collaboration among these rural education teachers and specialists, so they can develop their careers and improve their daily teaching, focusing on the special values that an increased and collaborative use of ICT can offer.
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