Title of the training course:
Enhancing Environmental and Ecological Awareness and Education in Schools: Training Teachers on the Use of Web2.0 tools and Open Educational Resources
The organiser Institution of the training is the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.
Organisers are:
László Radics, e-mail: laszlo.radics@uni-corvinus.hu
Andrea Tóbiás, e-mail: andrea.tobias@uni-corvinus.hu
The language
of the training: is english but the educational material will be available in
seven different languages: English,
Hungarian, German, Esthonian, Greek, Spanish, Romanian.
It is a comenius grant (school education) training activity.
The education sector of the participants (school and pre-school education) are primary
general secondary and vocational or technical secondary
The target audience are teachers (Pre-school, primary, secondary, vocational, adult, special needs), teacher trainers, careers officers, educational guides and counsellors, headteachers/principals/managers of schools/organisations offering adult education and other (paid or voluntary) management staff in the institution/organisation.
The training is an in-service training in the field of sciences as maths, chemistry, physics, natural sciences, biology and environment, new technologies, other courses for teachers of sciences (education on organic, ecological, climate change)
During the weeks following the training
course the participants will have the opportunity through conducting specially
designed mini-projects to further apply what they have learnt by designing
their own educational scenarios, creating their own e-portfolios, developing
their own open educational, and sharing them through the establishment of a
teachers’ community of practice. The participants will be welcome to
systematically participate to the communities of the Organic.Edunet and
METASCHOOL projects. The training team will provide to the participants all the
necessary guidelines and support to implement the proposed approaches in their
classroom.
The programme of the training activities (day by day)
15th September 2010:
Introduction and overview of the Course from Prof. Laszlo Radics and Dr. Elisabeth Zistler.
Presentation of the participants and their prepared learning scenarios.
Introductory Keynote Talk.
16th September 2010:
Participation to European Conference
17th September 2010:
Participation to European Conference
18th September 2010:
Digital learning content and open educational resources [Lecture, 2 hours]
Collaborative creation of open educational content on environmental topics [Workshop, 2 hours]
Organising teaching material in personal e-portfolios [Lecture, 2 hours]
Finding online learning and teaching material in learning portals [Workshop, 2 hours]
19th September 2010:
Designing educational scenarios for environmental education [Lecture, 2 hours]
Collaborative adaptation of existing educational scenarios to the needs of own school, country, [Workshop, 2 hours]
Hands-on work with presented tools, focus on case studies [Workshop, 2 hours]
Closing - Conclusions - Presentation of Participants work [2 hours].
Trainers of the training:
Dr. Elisabeth Zistler (BM:UKK, Austria) and Dr. Christianne Wagner-Alt (Lebensministerium, Austria) [experts on teacher's training]
Dr. Petros Lameras and Dr. Sofoklis Sotiriou (Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Greece] [experts on educational scenarios design]
Dr. Nikos Manouselis and Mr. Nikos Palavitsinis (GRNET, Greece) [experts on IT tools for environmental education]
Mr. Hannes Ebner (KTH, Sweden) [expert on open access and e-portfolios]
Ass.Prof. Salvador Sanchez Alonso and Mr. Alberto Abian (UAH, Spain) [expert on learning portals]
All the participants
will get certificate of attendance
including description of training content and time input if finish sucessfully the training.
Important iformation on course session
Date and time of start: 15/09/2010 13:00
Date and time of start: 19/09/2010 14:00
The host institution is the Corvinus University of Budapest
Address: Hungary 1118 Budapest
Contact person for this course session, name and title: Dr László Radics
Telephone number (country code / area code / number): +36 1 482 6237
fax number (country code / area code / number): +36 1 482 6325
Email: laszlo.radics@uni-corvinus.hu
Maximum number of participants are 30.
Costs of the training:
The fee of the training is 500 € it including (accommodation, breakfast and 1 meal)
Course fee is (tuition and materials): 400 €
The fee of the cancellation is: 200€
The rules of the is the following: In case of cancellation it is necesary to do it two weeks before the training starts.