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TRAINING EDUCATORS THROUGH NETWORKS AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

Objectif

TRENDS is aimed at the in-service flexible distance training of secondary school teachers, in IT and telematics for learning. Based on multimedia telematics and mature network technologies, the system will include e-mail, multimedia information access, debate-oriented electronic bulletin boards and newsgroups, and customised course-based tele-training. The common element will be a course introducing IT and telematics issues from the education standpoint. National centres in an EU training network will relay the system to teachers throughout Europe in line with a commonly agreed policy. More than 2500 teachers in 120 schools in 6 countries will participate in the project.



It is of vital importance for the European educational systems to establish efficient training mechanisms, in order to provide their educators with the appropriate tools of learning. The educational systems must be urgently supported via a well targeted introduction of use of the new technologies by installing flexible teachers' training techniques that ensure equal chances to all without restrictions such as distance, money available etc., as well as

cost effectiveness, without restrictions of number or course content, and that aim at teachers' continuous professionalization.

The TRENDS project aims at the in-service, distance training of 2,400 school teachers in Secondary Education, on the "use of Information Technology and Telematics in the learning process", from six of the participating countries (400 from each country) - Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France and United Kingdom. The training will be implemented by flexible and distance learning methods, through:

The development and use of an in-service, school-based training system, which will be based on multimedia telematics and existing, mature network technologies, and will be comprised of a number of services, ie. e-mail contact, access to multimedia information, "fora" for debates in the form of electronic bulletin boards and newsgroups, access to curriculum-related information and, finally, teletraining, by using a properly customised, already available, course on the subject (customisation and synthesis of available courses in Spain, UK and Portugal). The common, in most aspects, for all the six national groups of teachers content of teletraining will consist in a 30-40 hour course, aiming at cultivating positive attitudes to IT, acquiring knowledge on basic IT and telematics issues, understanding their educational potential, developing capabilities for effectively using them in the curriculum and the classroom, etc.

The establishment and operation of a European Teachers' Training Network, consisted of six interconnected "National Sites" (Training Centre, schools and teachers in each country) and providing distance training services, by using multimedia telematics, to teachers and teacher trainers. Each Training Centre in the Network will act as service provider to the schools and the teachers, not only from the six participating countries but also from other European regions. The distance training services will be provided by the Training Centres, under a common policy framework (specified terms for marketing, access licensing, registration, accreditation), adapted and described in a relevant memorandum of agreement between the TRENDS partners, originally signed before the end of the project. The management of the Network after the end of the project will be implemented by a Steering Committe, as an independent policy making body, ensuring common policy strategies, IPR handling and expansion actions between the Training Centres

During the TRENDS project a number of 120 teachers, one from each of the 120 participating schools, will be trained, in the early validation phase, being the trainers of the rest of the 2,400 teachers afterwards, in the project demonstration phase. The 120 "school leaders", from the six countries, will work together for almost two years, thus forming a collaborative network to support teachers' professionalization in the public European educational systems. The 2,400 teachers, trained by the end project, will consist a critical mass of educators, to support the necessary adjustments of our education in view of the emerging societal needs of the "Information Society".

Furthermore, exploitation plans will be developed for extending the outcome of the project, from the initial pilot phase, to an open, school-based teachers training service throughout Europe, aiming not only to the Secondary Education level but also to the Primary Education, in a way that is independent of the content of the training material.

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CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

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C 1 - Lambrakis Research Foundation
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