All partners have identified the
lack of ICT familiarity and the need for short-term courses for teachers
and trainers. The objectives of COLTT are to help teachers overcome their
difficulties in the use of ICT for cross-national collaborative
communication by teaching them how to work in on-line-based collaborative
learning environments.
Teachers of adults will be able to
offer their students a completely different way of learning New Basic
Skills in collaboration with students from other countries, in formal and
non-formal educational institutions. The project will achieve
these objectives through developing:
- The COLTT training course: “How
to work on a web-based platform with a view to integrating ICT in
collaborative teaching and learning – preferably across borders.”
The training course will include a pre-workshop event, the training
course itself and a post-workshop session. The project includes a
test-run and two Grundtvig 3 courses.
- A handbook in both printed
format and virtual on how to implement ICT-based
collaborative learning in classroom activities.
- An introduction to electronic
logbooks, which will record discussions, points
learned and agreements reached.
- An international conference at
which the results of the project will be presented.
- A Home Page to disseminate the
findings from the project.
Our objectives are therefore
- to collect the experiences of
educators that have been involved in ICT-based
collaborative learning
- to compile a handbook for
teachers and trainers on how to implement ICT-based
collaborative learning in short term class-room based activities
- to validate this handbook
through its use in a series of Grundtvig 3 courses
- to ensure the dissemination of
these results through the inclusion of Grundtvig
3 courses in the course offer of different European institutions
At the end of the project period
COLTT will be presented at an international conference focusing on:
- collaborative learning
- task based learning
- autonomous learning and the use
of electronic logbooks
Target Groups
Directly the target group is
teachers and teacher trainers in adult education, who will be able to
increase their familiarity with on-line-based collaborative learning and
initiate both national and international activities for their students.
The teachers will:
- be trained to become spearheads
for teaching their learners to work collaboratively
- become role models for
colleagues in own institutions
- be able to offer to their
students a completely different way of learning
New Basic Skills
The end users are the learners,
who will benefit in a number of ways:
- they will be introduced to a
completely different learning environment
- they will increase their skills
in intercultural communication
- they will have the opportunity
to generally increase their New Basic Skills
through motivating and user-friendly learning activities.
Activities
The topic for a COLTT training
course will be: “How to work on a web-based platform with a view to
integrating ICT in collaborative teaching and learning – preferably
across borders”.
The working language will be
English, but every script for the COLTT short-term collaborative learning
activities can easily be adapted into any other language.
The project plans to develop
training courses for teachers that will include:
- how to use Internet-based
platforms for collaborative learning
- how to chose a platform –
what demands to make
- how to adapt existing models to
local needs
- how to organize the educational
activity and the didactic approach
- how to motivate learners for
Internet-based communication
- how to improvise solutions and
implement a flexible approach
- how to monitor ICT-based
activities in a way that empowers the individual learner
- how to use logbooks in teaching