MAIN IDEA:

The project is devised as a helpful tool for training expert e-learning content designers. The target group is presumed to learn how to master the high technology tools used for the edition of electronic courses. The new tools applied to training are very useful but at the same time they require a fully trained group able to master them and to develop their own particular inputs. Through the methodology designed the trainers will learn how to design and adapt the didactic contents they have created, to the electronic form without the need of an ITC expert. This learning will endow them with the skills necessary to create more flexible and interactive didactic units at the same time that will foster their motivation and consequently the student’s motivation too.

MAIN OUTCOMES:

• Specialized multilingual Web site for e-learning content designers.
• International e-learning Manual and course of New Technologies for content designers. 200 hours. The course will be free available with average software.
• Network of e-learning provider entities all along Europe. The network is envisaged to become bigger and to be periodically updated and improved. It is devised to be a meeting place and a resource centre for experts in different subjects within the field of e-learning.

BENEFICIARIES:

Trainers and experts in Open and Distance as well as Vocational Learning, associations of trainers and any kind of entity providing training.

LANGUAGES:

English, French, Spanish, Hungarian, Rumanian, Greek and German.

DIDACTIC METHODOLOGY:

Whose main characteristic will be its openness and flexibility so that each participant will be able to follow the courses individually or with a group. The course will have many practical exercises for handling the multimedia tools and also on how to foster the peculiar skills to Open and Distance learning.