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COURSE TITLE
Open Educational Resources and Web 2.0 Technologies
MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS ENVISAGED: 15
TRAINING AIMED AT PARTICIPANTS RECEIVING
A GRANT FOR EITHER COMENIUS OR GRUNDTVIG TARGET GROUPS
LANGUAGE USED FOR THE TRAINING
English
TARGET AUDIENCE
DESCRIPTION OF TRAINING CONTENTS Preparation Participants are expected to have at least a basic Information Communication Technologies (ICT) user level. They will be requested to complete an online questionnaire about their personal and academic profile as well as their expectations. They will be also asked to prepare and submit via the course training portal (LMS) an e-Portfolio (eg. text files, photos, audio and video files) for a brief presentation about their home town/area (with cultural and educational material) to be used in a project during the training workshops. Support will be available to the participants during this phase. Objectives After the course participants should be able:
Methodology The course is based on the principles of Adult Education. For a better result for the participants the Blended Learning approach will be followed; combined face to face (F2F), e-learning, workshop and project learning. Learning by thinking together with cooperative learning and exchange of participants’ experiences will be used. Follow-up After the course there will be maintained contact with the participants. They will continue to have access to the course training portal and the support of a tutor. They will be also encouraged to continue to cooperate with each other, to share experiences, to produce and submit new OER and to participate in Virtual Learning Communities.
Day 1:
Welcome activity. Course opening. Administrative issues. Presentation of the course and the methodology. Presentation of the participants. Basics of Open Educational Resources. Best Practices of OER. Copyright terms. Creative Commons licences. Basics of eLearning. Learning and teaching styles. Learning Communities.
-Lunch break-
Basics of Web 2.0 Technologies and web based publishing.
Presentation of the course training portal.
Cultural evening. Participants present their countries. Day 2:
Free and Open Source Software
Setting up a virtual web server (workshop). The XAMPP project -Lunch break- Content Management Systems (CMS). Best Practices. Setting up a CMS (Workshop). The Moodle CMS. Patra’s City Tour Day 3: Setting up a CMS (Workshop continues) Designing material for education. Reusable Learning Objects. -Lunch break- Creating educational material and course design (workshop). The eXe eLearning editor.
Educational Visit to Hellenic Open University.
Day4: Creating educational material and course design (workshop continues) -Lunch break- More educational tools (Blogs, Wikis, Forums, Podcasting tools, Specific S/W like Wink, HotPotatoes etc.) Excursion in the surrounding area. Day 5: Bringing all together (workshop) European projects. Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) -Lunch break- Course Evaluation. Follow up guidelines Farewell dinner. Presenting participants' certificates.
SESSION 2
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