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Promoting Innovative Teaching & Learning to Enhance Student Learning Experience in Eastern Partnership Countries (PRINTeL)
Project Duration: 18.07.2018 – 18.07.2021
Project Number: 585760-EPP-1-2017-1-AM-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
Status: active
Project Members & Partners
- Yerevan State University (Armenia) – Lead Beneficiary and Project Coordinator
- National Polytechnic University of Armenia (Armenia)
- Vanadzor State University after H. Tumanyan (Armenia)
- National Center for Strategic Research in Higher Education (Armenia)
- Ilia State University (Georgia)
- Georgian Technical University (Georgia)
- Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University (Georgia)
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
- Universitat de Barcelona (Spain)
- Universidade do Porto (Portugal)
- Linkopings Universitet (Sweden)
- FH Joanneum Gesellschaft mbH (Austria)
- Belarusian State University (Belarus)
- Brest State Technical University (Belarus)
- Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno (Belarus)
PROJECT AIMS
- To enhance student learning experience in the partner countries (PC) in accordance with the ET 2020 objectives by promoting development and innovation in teaching & learning (T&L), supporting integration of technology and research, and dissemination of good practice.
- To modernize HE in AM, GE and BY in line with the Bologna agenda and to establish cooperation in education & training between EU and the partner countries and amongst PCs by promoting virtual mobility of teachers and students, and enhancing lifelong learning resources & means.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
- 1.To strengthen Teaching Staff Development Centres (TSDC) in the PC HEIs by enhancing capacities of staff and trainers, modernizing infrastructure and introducing innovative teacher training and academic leadership programmes.
- 2.To build up capacities of the partner HEIs’ teaching staff by developing their innovative and technology-enhanced T&L skills and abilities of competency- and research-based teaching.
- 3.To establish a Virtual Academy of Teaching & Learning (VATL) as an international community of teachers, staff and students interested in using and sharing Open Educational Resources (OER) for the improvement of technology-enhanced T&L.
- 4.To promote greater awareness on the types and methods of innovative and technology-enhanced T&and to disseminate best practices within and between HEIs in the PCs.
About 30 staff & 100 trainers will be trained on innovative T&L methods and ICT-based interactive and e-learning technologies for TSDCs. 28 technology-enhanced teacher training (TET) classrooms, 9 multimedia content building studios, other e-learning facilities and 5 new TET courses will be set up in PC HEIs.
The project places a strong emphasis on the capacity building of a wide cohort of teaching staff in PC HEIs by utilizing a multiplier effect via “train the trainer” initiative. The trained trainers will adapt & deliver newly developed TET courses to over 530 university teachers.
The project will provide PCs' HE communities with an interactive professional communication, mutual learning and virtual mobility platform & Open Educational Resources - the VATL, to promote innovative T&L practices and continuous development of teaching staff.
As a result of the project implementation 6 virtual VATL’s communities of teaching practice around particular teaching approaches & disciplinary groups, an annual virtual forum on innovative T&L, as well as internal institutional incentives will be established to promote awareness on innovative pedagogy and excellence in T&L.
METHODOLOGY
The declared objectives of the Project will be fulfilled through:
- Conducting trainings and workshops for a wide range of staff and teachers in the PC universities;
- Adopting new innovative teaching and learning (T&L) practices;
- Establishing a common virtual platform for creating, using and sharing Open Educational Resources (OERs);
- Organizing study visits, information seminars and dissemination conferences in PCs;
- Disseminating the project results and materials to the wider academic communities in the PCs.
Throughout the Project implementation exchange and transfer of knowledge, expertise, know-how and good practice between EU and PC universities will be a vital point for attainment of the project objectives.
EXPECTED RESULTS
- About 30 staff & 100 trainers of TSDCs will be trained on innovative T&L methods and ICT-based interactive & e-learning technologies.
- 28 technology-enhanced teacher training (TeT) classrooms, 9 multimedia content building studios, other e-learning facilities and 5 new TeT courses will be set up in the TSDCs.
- The Project places a strong emphasis on capacity building of a wide cohort of teaching staff by utilizing a multiplier effect via “train the trainer” initiative. The trained trainers will adapt and deliver newly developed TeT courses to over 500 university teachers in their respective HEIs.
- The project will provide HE communities of the PCs with an interactive professional communication, mutual learning and virtual mobility platform and OERs - the VATL - to promote innovative T&L practices and continuous development of the teaching staff.
- As a result of the Project implementation 6 virtual communities of teaching practice around particular teaching approaches and disciplinary groups, an annual virtual forum on innovative T&L, as well as internal institutional incentives will be established to promote awareness on innovative pedagogy and excellence in T&L.
PRINTeL website - https://printel.am/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ErasmusPlusPRINTeL/
PRINeL Leaflet - https://printel.am/uploads/page/pdf_en/PRINTeL%20Leaflet_Final.pdf
