Teacher's Aids on Creating Content for Learning En..
Teacher's Aids on Creating Content for Learning Environments
Start date: Nov 1, 2007,
Learning environments offer excellent opportunities for stimulating lifelong learning inboth compulsory and adult education. Creation of high quality content for learningenvironment is essential for the successful use of this new way of learning. It isimportant to train teachers how to create such content and this is the main aim of ourproject: training teachers to create content for learning environments. By providing suchtraining we will contribute to the establishment of culture of innovation in the educationalorganisations of all teachers who follow our training. This will directly contribute toachieve the aim "to support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services,pedagogies and practice for lifelong learning" set out in the aims of the LLP programme.What we want to achieve:- To train teachers to create content for electronic learning environments in the contextof didactical design of an e-learning course- To enable teachers to identify and decide which ICT tools and content are most usefulfor certain study purposes.- To teach teachers how to create learning content using information design, webstandards, usability criteria and reusability of learning objects (text, images, animations,audio, video, …). - Focussing on learning content which enables active, interactive andcooperative learning processes.- To enhance the quality of learning environments in education by training teachers howto use them- To create resources for teachers to help them with the use of learning environments ina pedagogically sound way- To stimulate implementation of new approaches to ICT teacher training related to theconcept of lifelong learning, knowledge sharing and peer learning.- To stimulate teachers to share the developed content with their colleagues usingexisting repositories.Achieving these aims and objectives by offering a European based in-service trainingcourse with resources will ensure that teachers will be able to use learningenvironments in an optimal way. They will be able to develop learning objects (content)for use in such an environment. This will ensure that learning in general will become amore flexible process.
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