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- E-Learning and “Acculturation” – Helping Students to Study Abroad
- Academic Learning Futures: E-Vacuating Oil Rigs
- The Biggest E-Learning Laboratory in Europe
- Fronter Implements New LMS for the University of Vienna
- Education in the Digital Age – What Does It Mean?
- Promoting Cultural Dialogue with E-Learning
- Master’s Programme: Online Education in Veterinary Tropical Medicine
- Keep Students Engaged – With LMS, Videos and Mobile Phones
- One for All - Education Highway Chooses Fronter
- A Network of National Networks
- Moodle - The Future Looks Very Bright
- Challenges in Higher Education: E-Learning and Natural Science
- Reviving History in the Classroom
- Studying Across Cultures
- Special Focus Session on Japan
- Interview with Leonard A. Plugge, SURF Scientific Technical Council
- E-Learning from a Student’s Perspective
- Face-to-face and Cyberspace: Two Sides of the Educational Coin
- E-Learning at Berlin's Universities
- Small World - Global Classrooms
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Sharing Educational Expertise: Europe’s TTnet
The train-the-trainer grouping TTnet is designed as a network of national networks. Between 1998 and 2001, the Member States of the European Union set up their own national networks, which translate into European cooperation through thematic projects, workshops and annual conferences. In 2002, TTnet set up further projects to familiarise the New Member States (NMSs) with the importance of training their trainers in the context of their entry to the European Union.
TTnet has two complementary lines of action. The first is to foster cooperation between key national actors in the field of VET teacher training through studies and practice-sharing, providing guidance and tools for the community of VET professionals. The second is to make a contribution to the implementation of the European Union's policy framework for teachers and trainers. On the national level, the purpose is to provide a forum for discussion among key actors and to identify key priority themes for VET teachers and trainers. Other efforts are to identify, analyse and disseminate good examples of practice, as well as to play an interface role with policy-makers. On the community level, TTnet members are to provide logistical and scientific support, collect and analyse good examples of practice on common working themes, and organise TTnet events, including thematic workshops and the TTnet annual conference.
So far, TTnet has analysed 73 practices in 13 countries, which are available on the TTnet website. It has also provided guidance and advice to practitioners and policy-makers through thematic workshops, working documents and background papers. TTnet has also launched several studies on key priority themes for teachers and trainers. At Online Educa 2007, Michael Härtel will give some insights into TTnet’s activities, which are affiliated to Germany’s Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB). Claudia Montedoro and Saverio Pescuma, from ISFOL Istituto per la Formazione dei Lavoratori, Italy, will talk about Italy’s approach to meeting the objectives of TTnet, alongside with the strategy drawn by the Italian government. In particular, they will present the SPF On Line Project (On Line Continuing Training System), a systemic training project that aims at creating continuing training services for professional operators in the labour markets, developing an internet-based infrastructure and providing information, contents and support to VET operators.
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The session is on Thursday, November 29th, 11:45 - 13:00.
November 22, 2007
