Activities and Products Prof. Dr. H. Güçlü Yavuzcan Project Coordinator Dr. Abdullah Togay National Coordinator

Activities and Products

Prof. Dr. H. Güçlü YavuzcanProject Coordinator

Dr. Abdullah TogayNational Coordinator

Specific aims of the project

• To develop innovative approaches in terms of the quality, effectiveness and attractiveness of Technology Education,

• to strengthen the capacity of the international profession, to address technology education’s developmental and implementation needs by enhancing the networking and interaction ability of national, regional and international associations,

• to provide recognition of the diverse and life-long nature of Technology Education and importance of the complex interactions between technological, social and natural environments,

Specific aims of the project

• to adapt the content of Technology Education on a common European frame in consistence with the Bologna Process

• To realise international cooperation between educational and training establishments on national and European basis

• opening up Technology Education systems to a wider part of the world.

OUTCOME 1

New common and flexible curricula in a modularised form for Technology Teacher Training

Prepared in a common course definition format

In English and in the native languages of the partner countries -TR, CZ, DE, EL, ES, IT, BG-

Medium is the official web-site

DEMO CD’s has been distributed during the registration (Details will be given by Dr. Jürgen Wehling)

OUTCOME 2

Two complete training materials on:

General Technology – Energy Transformation (by Prof. Dr. Erich Sauer)

General Technology – Information and Communication (by Dr. Jürgen Wehling)

Language is English

DEMO CDs have been distributed during the registration

DEMO CDs will be also available on the web-site of the project

(Detailed information about the training materials will be given by Prof. Sauer and

Dr. Wehling in the following sessions)

OUTCOME 3

Two model training tools on:

Workshop on Basic Constructing (by Dr. Ivan Kolarov)

Network Games (by Ing. Katerina Nevralova)

Language is English

Completely available on the web-site of the project

(Detailed information about the training tools will be given by Dr. Kolarov

and Mrs. Bernatkova in in the following sessions)

OUTCOME 4.

Contact database of the related target groups, national experts,

professional establishments and educational institutions of the 7

partner countries

Completed as of February 2006 and located on the web-site

Total of 589 persons from the target groups are registered into the

database

Medium is the official web-site of the project

OUTCOME 5.

ONLINE COUNTRY REPORTS about the current status of

technology education in the schooling system and in the teacher

training programmes together with the educational structure and

significant legislations of the partner countries. The tool for cross

comparison is also available.

Both in English and in the native language of the partner country

Completed as of June 2006 and located on the web-site, updates are done

periodically till the end of the project

DEMO CDs have been distributed during the registration

DEMO will be also available on the web-site of the project

OUTCOME 6.

500 printed copies of a book containing the all papers of the

Valorisation Conference (including the partners activity

reports, invited papers, papers on the modular structure,

training materials, training tools, external evaluation reports

and internal evaluation report etc.)

in English

Will be completed and distributed to the participants in the second half of

December, 2007.

Work Plan

Management and coordination

WP2Data acquisition

System and

continuous update

Background studies (country reports and Questionnaires)

Development of Methodology

WP3

WP5

WP8

WP7

WP6

Development of

Modular Structure

Valorisation

Development of modelTraining material and

tool

Feedback and Evaluation

WP1

WP4

ACTIVITIES

Quality Assurrance Plan .

• At the beginning of the project, the Contractor has elaborated and established the Quality Asurrance Plan for the whole project.

• The Contractor has monitored the tasks basing on this plan and warned the partners in case of any delay.

• The Quality assurrance plan contained the monthly general tasks of the partnership as well as the specific tasks given to partners. The planned outcomes of each month were also declared in the Plan.

• In case of delay in any of the activities due to a reasonable excuse, the Contractor made the necessary changes in the plan and immediately informed the partners via. e-mail.

Financial Issues

Online Financial System

Due to the faced difficulties during the financial reporting in each 3 months, the Contractor together with its sub-contractor for data acqusition system has decided to create a “online financial system” in the web database.

Accordingly, the partners insert their costs to the related part of the system (divided into the categories based on LdV cost items). The system monitors all the expenditures of the partners individually as well as the total expenditures in each cost item of the whole Project. The evidence documents are sent to the Contractor by post.

The budget amendments of the partners are also inserted and monitored in the system.

Online monitoring of the financial issues

Online monitoring of the financial details

Meetings.

03-05 Nov. 2005: Kick-off meeting, Sofia-Bulgaria

05-09 June 2006: Larissa – Greece

09-11 October 2006: Naples – Italy

11-13 February 2007: Sevilla – Spain

12-14 June 2007: Prague-Czech Republic

13-15 November 2007: Valorisation Meeting, Ankara - Turkey

Meetings.

3-5 Nov. 2005: Kick-off meeting, Sofia-Bulgaria

Introduction of the partners

Revision of the project proposal and administrative issues

Revision of the tasks

Revision of the financial issues

Official start of the project

Kick-off meeting in Sofia- Bulgaria

Meetings.

6-9 June 2006: Larissa-Greece

Expanded meeting by the participation of national experts and 2

invited European expert

Discussions on the completed country reports

Discussions on the questionnaire results

Revision of the contact databases of the partner countries

Elaboration on the methodology development

6-9 June 2006 Larissa - Greece

Meetings.

9-11 October 2006: Naples-Italy

Evaluation on the draft methodology

Discussions on the learning concepts

Examining the good practices within the partner countries

Distribution of the tasks for achieving the modular structure

Defining draft frame for learning outcomes

9-11 October 2006 Naples-Italy

Meetings.

12-14 February 2007: Sevilla-Spain

Discussions on the studies of the partners on learning concepts (subject

related fields) and the frame

Determination of the draft modular structure together with the main

modules, modules and the courses within each module

Studies on the anticipated workloads and finalisation of the draft scheme

Discussions on the sample training material and tool for a basic course

Determining the tasks of the related partners for the preparation of the

sample training materials and tools

12-14 February 2007 Sevilla - Spain

Meetings.

11-13 June 2007: Prague-Czech Republic

Finalisation of the modular structure in English with the

standard scheme of course descriptions

Finalisation of the training materials

Finalisation of the training tools

Discussions on the methods for feedback , internal

evaluation and external evaluation process

11-13 June 2007 Prague-Czech Rep.

Details and minutes about the Meetings

Database and Data Acquisition

System

General specifications

http://www.modularte.gazi.edu.tr

The web-site is in dynamic structure and all data and databases related with the project are stored in this web-server.

The main site is in English

Limited parts can be also accessed in native languages of the partner countries (TR, CZ, DE, EL, ES, IT, BG)

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Official web-site

Available Databases

.

Contact Database

Country Report Database

Questionnaire Database

Questionnaire Statistics Database

Modular Structure Database

Outcomes Database

Online Financial Database

Contact Database.

Persons from the target groups, educational institutions …etc.

from the partner countries

Main aim was to establish European Cooperation, to involve

interested parties to be in touch with the project activities and

provide effective feedback

A total of 589 persons were included in the database from 7

partner countries

The contact database users can access certain documents of the

project by the given permission of the Contractor

Personal information in Contact database

Monitoring of the contact database by the Contractor

“Technology and

design” or equivalent

teacher training

programmes in the

higher education

institutes

(contents, schedule,

learning outcomes,

and background)

Detailed contents

and outcomes of the

“technology and

design” courses or

equivalents in the

partner countries

(background info and

evolution)

Country Reports Database

Educational

structure

and teacher

training

legislations of the

partner countries

Country Reports Database.

In a standardised form with comprehensive set

of information

Both in English and in native language of the

partner country

Avails reporting and the cross comparison of

the concerned aspects


.

Consists of three main parts:

a) Schools

Information on the school types involving technology are

equivalent courses starting from the age of 6 till the age of 18

Detailed information (aims, hours, learning fields..etc.) about

the technology and design or equivalent courses in the above

mentioned schools

Background information of each course for the last 10-20

years.


.


b) Teacher Training Programmes

Availability of the specific higher education programs in partner

countries

Teacher training programme details

Course details of teacher training programmes in standard course

description format (aims, content, learning outcomes…etc.)

Background information and modifications on the relevant teacher

training programme in the last 10-20 years

In case of no availability; specification of the pedagogical formation

programme details for technology and design teachers


.


c) Chart and legislations

Standard chart indicating the whole formal

national education system of the partner

country

Teacher Training System and significant

legislations of the partner countries.

How we monitor the country reports database




Reporting and cross comparison

http://www.modularte.gazi.edu.tr/admin/report1.php

Reporting and cross-comparison

Reporting and cross-comparison

Questionnaire Databases

.

Total of 7 Questionnaires involving 90 questions have been filled

out online by the persons in the contact database of partners

country.

Questionnaires are prepared and checked pedagogical specialists

within the partnership

Measurement and Evaluation has been conducted prior to online

application

Translated into native languages of the partner countries (inside the

database system)

Results are counted and analysed within same database system

Questionnaires

7 questionnaires were mainly aimed to analyse two main issues:

1) Technology Education in Schools (practice, method, vocational guidance and industrial approaches)

2) Technology Education Teacher and Teacher Training System (teacher qualifications, teacher training methods and programme)

Online translation of the Questionnaires

Online application of the Questionnaires

Online monitoring of the Questionnaire results

Online monitoring of the Questionnaire results


.

Available in EN, TR, DE, CZ, BG, IT, EL, ES

Consits of 5 Main Module and 16 Modules

Total of 41 courses are involved

All courses are defined by standard course description

forms (including the aims, contents, learning outcomes,

teaching methods and assessment criteria)

Socio-technology

MODULARTE Onion

Didactics of Technology

Processes Systems

FundamentalsDesign process

GENERAL PEGAGOGY

FLEXIBLE

MODULES

ICT ICT

material – energy - information


Sample course design

Sample course design

Outcomes database

Feedback and Evaluation

.

Feeedback from the main target groups about the project outcomes were

obtained in each partner country through workshops and face to face

contacts (the results of the feedback will be presented tomorrow by the

country representatives)

Internal Evaluation has been done by the Italian partner “ARIES

Formazione” and the summary will be presented tomorrow.

External Evaluation of the project results and activities has been done by

“Innovationsgesellschaft TU Braunsweig” and the summary will be

presented tomorrow.

Evaluation of invited European experts outside the partner countries

Valorisation.

Press releases in each partner country involving the aims and

expected outcomes of the project.

Informative brochures on the activities and brief outcomes of the

project (in native languages) to be distributed to the target

groups in each country

Face to face contacts with the national authorities and the target

groups

Web-releases of the partners

Press releases about the ongoing project activities.

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News on Greek newspaper

Press release on Czech newspaper

Web release of University of Duisburg-Essen

Web release of WOCATE

News on Italian web-site

News on Bulgarian newspaper

Management responsibility

We feel that, the Contractor has taken all the necessary responsibilities for the effectivemanagement of the project in coherent with the anticipated tasks and outcomes in the projectproposal

Continuous Control

Continuous follow-up of the quality assurance plan and providing the necessary motivation of the partners when required.

Key Components

Decision Mechanism

The partnershipis motivated to take collaborative decisions. The partners are urgedto intensive thinkingand putting forwardideas

Critical Analysis of the Results

• MODULARTE accepted the concept of “general technology” as a theory to reduce every technological process to the processing of matter, energy and information.

• To be consistent with the anticipated multi-aspect approach and for the clarification of the implications and consequences of technology, MODULARTE also defines designing and socio-technology as the core components of the technology teacher training programme.


• The proposed model has been also integrated with the specific module “Didactics of Technology” providing an excellent framework in terms of learner-centred approach that fits comfortably with technology and design education.


• MODULARTE, considered the outcome based approach for the proposed model and specified the cognitive learning outcomes clearly and umambigously (considering the six incerasingly complex levels of thinking as much as possible)


• We are completely in fovour of the comparability, transferability and transparency by focussing on Bologna Process.

• Thus, one of the main challenges is that; we tried to bring a teacher training programme into the Bologna Process with the almost equal contribution of 7 European countries.


• Another challenge is that, we have achieved an impressive data collection tool providing a cross comparison of information on technology education schooling and higher education structures for 7 countries and believe that it could be a common tool for all European countries for the further studies.

Self Evaluation

• We have fulfilled our specific aim for “opening up Technology Education systems to a wider part of the world”.

• We also realised our another specific mission; “international cooperation among educational and training establishments on national and European basis” through the contact database systems, questionnaires; face to face contacts by the national corrdinators, study visits and feedback mechanisms.

Further Issues

• After the official end of the project; we will keep the project web-site active with its huge database system and convert it to a “European Forum for Technology and Design Education” (with a new design)

• Open access will given to the certain documents and a share point server will be established for exchanging the documentation among the interested parties.

• New users will be defined from all European countries. • Further projects are intended on establihing e-learning materials

concerning innovative didactic approaches within the concept of the European model frame.

EQF

Helsinki RecommendationsDublin descriptors

NQFHQFSQF

QACurricula design

LO+student workload

RecognitionLO+student workload

Comparability of cycles(I, II, III)

Periods of studyJoint degrees

APEL

ECTS for accumulation and transfer

Bologna process in a nutshell

Learning Chain

Learnig outcomesSubject related

-Knowledge broadening-Knowledge deepening

Generic-Knowledge access and

developing

LearnersSelection

(accumulates credits)

Learning space(Teaching and learning, Research

Learning material, Learning methods...)

Change of paradigm

Total Quality Management

Labour Market

Labour Market

91

Learning ChainTools at work

Learning OutcomesSubject-related

-KnowledgeDeepening / Widening

Generic-Skills / Competences

Knowledge opening / developingQFR-NQR-HQR-SQR

LearnerCredit Transfer +

AccumulationApplication /CV /

Learning Agreement/TOR / Mobility Pass

Language PassDiploma/Certificate

Supplement

Learning SpaceTeaching and Learning,

ResearchLearning Environment

Information Package / Course Catalogue

Change of Paradigm

Quality Assurance/ -enhancementStandards & Guidelines / Register

Labour Market

Labour Market

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