DOTS

Developing Online Teaching Skills
Subtitle:  Bite-size Training for Language Professionals

Medium-term project 2008-2011

Project working languages: English, German

Thematic strand: Continuity in language learning

Expected results and output:

This project will encourage new forms of teaching and learning languages and improve the quality of online language education. It will:

  • identify teachers' ICT training needs by enquiry and observation;
  • collect reflective activities (website);
  • disseminate DOTS materials, cascade results and training experience.

Products: 

  • guidelines for writing training materials;
  • training kit: DOTS project website with bite-size activities for online language teaching, reflective activity suggestions and collaborative tools for sharing experiences of "self-training".


Target audience for the activities planned within the project: 

  •     teacher working as multipliers in networks;
  •     teacher educators.  

       
Target audience for the project results:

  •     teachers;
  •     teacher educators.  


Sector of education focussed on:

  •     colleges, university;
  •     teacher education;
  •     adult education, workplace;
  •     continuing education.

 

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