Can be integrated into other activities
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In some projects, such as
DOTS
(Developing Online Teaching Skills), the focus is on tools,
which can be used to teach any content at any level. It is up to the
teacher to integrate their use in their teaching. Feedback from the
Nordic area suggests that it can benefit from further integration into
other activities taking place in the area.
MORE DOTS
offers support for mediating the
DOTS
project, bringing together specialists in language teaching, teacher
training and online technology, as well as external experts dealing with
formal, non-formal and informal learning, online communities and online
teaching: see the following for
further information
on how this happens in practice.
Project materials can be integrated into various academic programmes at
Masters and Bachelors levels, e.g.
E-VOLLution (Exploring cutting edge applications of networked technologies in
vocationally oriented language learning) case study of international collaboration on creating and marketing
an EFL Online application, in Greece, Lithuania and Iceland (Case study 1, E-VOLLution, pp. 117-124).
The CLIL-CD (Curriculum development for Content and Language Integrated
Learning) project offers a teacher training curriculum for CLIL that may
be linked to learners' curricula. Adaptable curricular models, suitable
for both foreign language and content teachers are based on a set of
defined target professional competences, e.g.: “ClIL teachers are able
to articulate and discuss CLIL with school’s internal and external
stakeholders”. The publication is proposed as a conceptual lens and
model, not as a prescriptive template. It can therefore be integrated
into a
range of contexts.
ELP (European Language Portfolio) was used as part of a funded
research project
into learner autonomy in Ireland.
Some projects offer resources, which can simply inform development by
inspiring new ideas, even if the materials themselves are not used
directly. Listen to this short
video
on how
LACS (Language associations and collaborative support) provided new insights in Iceland.
The
LACS (Language associations and collaborative support)
project offers support for other activities through its
Directory of Language Organisations
which help to build collaborations and networks, e.g. dissemination,
searching for joint projects, awareness of the events, attending each
other`s conferences, making presentations, sharing experience etc.
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