About project

WETEN - Western-Eastern Teacher Education Network

Project number: 145035-TEMPUS-2008-LT-JPTHN
Duration of the project: 2009-2011
Sources of finance: TEMPUS IV
Contractor: Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
 
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Aim of the Project:

  • to undertake an analysis of the pedagogic traditions, skills and competencies required for higher education teachers in accordance with European e-Learning strategy and e-Bologna action;
  • to improve the quality of teaching and learning in HEI by providing teaching materials for eastern members of the network (5 modules, virtual repository of resources);
  • to train circa 400 teachers and master degree students from eastern HEI and to implement by the end of the project life the new teaching methodologies for 6 subject area, including educational sciences);

The main outputs/outcomes of the network will be:

  1. the comparative analyses of educational development needs and existing provision for embedding, upgrading and updating the learner support skills at tertiary level;
  2. comparative studies of approaches to learner support (e.g. lectures, seminars, field trips, role play, problem based learning, collaborative learning and the case method), peer observation and review, elearning, assessment, and flexible delivery; and;
  3. trained network promoters and trainers;
  4. training materials developed for trainings and placed on the Internet for open use;
  5. producing and delivery of the 5 courses devoted to the special groups such like developers, managers, tutors, administrators, IT specialists of e-learning courses (Moldavian and Ukrainian partners, target group - academic staff from partner institutions, circa 400);
  6. the implementation of new technologies and methodics in 6 subject areas (education sciences as the priorirty area for partner countries, and the others will be chosen during the project life);
  7. technical prerequisites for the teacher network and for retraining courses;

Official project webpage: www.weten.org

Contact person: Danguole Rutkauskiene
E-Learning Technology Centre at Kaunas University of Technology
Phone +370 37 300612
distance@distance.ktu.lt

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