Promoting Online Training Opportunities for the Workforce in Europe

The Interim report Promoting online training opportunities for the workforce in Europe (2017-2019) was published 30 October 2018. The report of this new European initiative has been prepared for the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) and the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) of the European Commission. Peter Mazohl from Read More …

Considerations for QA of e-Learning Provision

European Distance Learning Week (EDLW) in cooperation with the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA), which will be holding its National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) in parallel with the EDEN event. During EDLW, you will have access to daily online webinars and panel sessions of expert scholars and practitioners who will present a variety of Read More …

European Vocational Skills Week 2018 5-9 November

EUCEN, European University Continuing Education, will contribute to the VET Skills Week 2018 in different ways. Do not miss their two webinars on Monday 05 November bit.ly/2AyIRHa and send an email of interest to office@eucen.eu. Only registered people will receive the link to join the webinars. @11:00CET – Refining Higher Education Apprenticeships with Enterprises in Read More …

Meeting & Consultations in Rome

Peter Mazohl, Harald Makl (EFQBL), Ebba Ossiannielsson (SADE) and Luca Reitano (DigiLab) met to consultations in October 2018 in Rome. The discussed topics covered the development of documents and chapters for the MOOC as well as the creation of content for the “Trainers’ Toolbox”. Besides this, the publishing of the multiple device report (as a Read More …

TIBL Interimreport and recently published reports

The TIBL project is already halfway, and this month (October) the Interim report will be handed in. A lot of work has been carried out by and among the partners. In addition, three meetings have been conducted; Kick Off Meeting (Wiener Neustadt, AT, October, 2017);  Teacher training event (May, 2018, Seville, ES), and Interim report Read More …

Course Implementation Meeting in Lund (Sweden)

The intermediate meeting of the project took place in Lund (Sweden). Here we found the best working conditions for the project team. The goals in this meeting were to clear all open issues in the tools for developing the pilot courses. There were activities like: Discussion and clearing of open issues for the pilot course Read More …

Multimedia & Training

Multimedia learning occurs when a learner builds a mental representation from words and pictures that have been presented (R. Mayer, 2017). Multimedia instructional messages using words and pictures (for instance static graphics, photos, drawings, amps, or charts) are intended to foster learning. These facts can also be used in typical training in Vocational Education and Read More …

TIBL presented at the EDEN Conference 2018 (Genoa)

Ebba Ossiannilsson presented the project at the annual EDEN conference in Genoa. She used the opportunity to refer to the project – which started in October 2017 – as well as to the achieved results. The interest and the feedback of the audience showed the importance of the project and the need of appropriate and Read More …

The TIBL project was presented at the 4th UnderInvestigation event UAv)

The project TIBL was presented at the University of Aveiro in the context of the 4th UnderInvestigation event. The discussion was very fruitful and related to the objectives of the pilot course (to develop three areas of the DigComp in a blended learning course using multiple devices). The most interesting question was about how to Read More …