ePICT European Pedagogical ICT Licence a webbased service for the professional development of teache

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ePICTEuropean Pedagogical ICT Licencea
web-based service for the professional
development of teachersProject No. 22210
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ePICT European Pedagogical ICT Licence- a
web-based service for professional development of
teachers

• The ePICT project will
• Localise the original version of Pædagogisk
  IT-kørekortinto a flexible and open generic,
  European version
• Localise test versions in Italy, Greece and
  Hungary
• Localisation process
• Concept, syllabus, course materials (content),
  methodology
• Organisational operational model
• Technical operational model
• Material, communication and administration

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ePICT European Pedagogical ICT Licence

• Business model The European ePICT Consortium
• An invitation to interested parties to join the
  consortium
• Localise the course material into your own
  national context
• Set up your own national distribution structure
  and technical backbone
• All done with support and documentation from the
  project
• Consult the ePICT website www.epict.org

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ePICT partners
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ePICT Details about the course

• Structure
• Content
• Concept
• Characteristics
• Flow
• Materials
• Organisation and implementation

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ePICT European Pedagogical ICT LicenceAbout
the course structure
5-6 months
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ePICT Course content

• Compulsory modules
• Lets find something on the net
• Type a text
• Where are you now? Communication and
  collaboration on the Internet
• The choice is yours
• Optional modules
• Pictures tell the story working with images on
  the computer
• It does its own calculations - spreadsheets
• Information on the screen presentation tools
  and interactive stories
• Get it out on the net web pages and
  dissemination on the Internet
• Into the database internal databases
• The die is cast models and simulation
• Columns? layout and desktop publishing
• Is it not possible to learn it on the computer?
  educational software
• It is easy on a computer? working methods and
  ICT
• ICT as a compensating tool
• ICT and reading skills
• Games and edutainment in education

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ePICT - Course concept

• Courses are preferably school based
• Introductory day with tutor the rest is
  e-learning
• Work in teacher teams
• Duration minimum 5-6 months
• During the course teams must write 8 examples of
  instructional design to obtain the Licence
• A certificate is issued

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ePICT European Pedagogical ICT LicenceCourse
characteristics

• Teachers reflect upon their own teaching practice
  in relation to ICT
• Work results in concrete lesson plans (learning
  scenarios)
• All themes have a pedagogical/didactical basis
• Course materials inspire and foster ideas on how
  you teach in, about and with ICT
• Participate in teams
• Through electronic communication and team
  assignments a facilitator challenges the teams on
  pedagogical and subject/discipline specific
  implementations of ICT
• Teams often formed by teachers from the same
  school
• The course is distributed within a structure of
  regional course providers

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ePICT - Course flow (blended e-learning)
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ePICT- Materials for the course

• Paper based material
• Overview and introduction of ICT-pedagogical
  content
• Web portal
• Texts, Articles, Links
• Exercises, platform independent (ICT-hands-on
  content)
• Assignments
• Platform dependent ICT manuals
• Conference system
• Administrative tools

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ePICT - Organisation and implementation
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ePICT The project
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ePICT BaselineStatistics pre-project licences

• Denmark
• 9 licences in operation 55,000 participants
• Norway
• 2 licences in operation 18,000 participants
• Ghana
• 1 licence pilottesting 72 participants