Monthly Archives: September 2017

Third project meeting held in Heilbronn

The third project meeting of VOCAL was held on 22 September in Germany, hosted by the Baden-Württenberg Cooperative State University Heilbronn.

Partners discussed completed and in progress deliverables, such as the realisation of the second (final) short term staff training event taking place parallel to the meeting, the finalisation of the three training materials on digitalization of quality learning resources, on designing online collaborative learning activities embedding digital, social and intercultural competence development and on tutoring international, intercultural and diverse learner groups.

Partners have discussed issues regarding the 6 re-developed courses that the training participants will start to work on following the training, dissemination issues and the progress of the testimonies of VET and HE teachers participating in the project.

Second short-term joint staff training in Heilbronn

Teachers and trainers from consortium institutions need competences on digitalization of quality learning resources, on designing online and open collaborative learning activities and tutoring international diverse learner groups in order for them to be able to (re)develop curriculum adapting it for online, open and intercultural active learning.

The VOCAL partners organise the second joint staff training on designing collaborative learning activities embedding digital, social and intercultural competences and digitalization of quality learning resources on 18-22 September 2017 in Heilbronn, Germany.

See the feedback on the first training event here.

The training event is only open to consortium members, however the training materials developed in the project – on digitalization of quality learning resources, on designing online collaborative learning activities embedding digital, social and intercultural competence development and on tutoring international, intercultural and diverse learner groups – will be available as open educational resource under CC BY-SA (Attribution-ShareAlike).