Virtual Teacher In-Service Training (KenGuru)

Finland , 2005 to 2007

Compendium: Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

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Background

The KenGuru project includes a large package of online material on pedagogical use of ICT available from 2007 onwards. Resources are targeted on teachers wishing to use ICT in education. The main contents are:
  • ICT Literacy (skills to use ICT as a tool in the learning and teaching process).
  • Media Literacy and Internet Safety.
  • Skills to acquire and create knowledge.
  • Learning-process-based planning of teaching with ICT with 20 good cases.
The online resources were designed to provide self-directed learning resources for the teachers who wish to study pedagogical ICT skills on their own. Also all in-service training organisations may use the resources for free.
 
The motivation of the initiative

Almost all teachers have basic technical skills. 50-60% of teachers have participated in training aimed at improving pedagogical ICT skills, thus indicating that teachers want to improve their ICT skills for pedagogical use.
 
Participants
 
Schools, administration, research institutions, ICT companies.

Aims and targets

Objectives of the initiative
 
To provide online resources for teacher in-service training on pedagogical use of ICT.
 
Target group
 
Teachers (at all levels), adult learners.
 
Methods applied to reach the objective (technological and/or pedagogical)
 
The pedagogical method and aim is to teach teachers a new e-learning method that involves conducting the online learning process via learning tasks. The material itself is based on the same scheme, while it gives an overview of the content mentioned above.
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