DESIGN OF LEARNING SEQUENCES FOR VET (VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND RANTING) COMMUNITY USING LAMS. EXPERIENCE FROM LEONARDO DA VINCI PROJECTS

• Authors: Erik Engh
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Through different Leonardo da Vinci projects in the period 2005-2010 new pedagogical principles for organizing and delivering more cost- and time-efficient blended learning and training has been developed. This model may lead to new synergies for effective and pedagogical inclusion of state of the art high quality real-time visual collaboration tools into current training principles with a combination with Learning Design Tools such as LAMS. The basis for this framework has been a new pedagogical methodology for the training of the students themselves, named Activity Based Training (ABT). It was found that by using LAMS as a design tool, the teacher has to reflect on the activities introduced to the students in a structured and logical manner. In this way the structural facilities in LAMS fits the structure needed in the ABT methodology. Mechanical industries utilize traditional training methodologies by separating theoretical learning and training from practical training of skills. In such a pedagogical framework hands-on practice comes after the theoretical content descriptions. Activity Based Training (ABT) is closely connected to practical production activities. The training follows the same steps or phases as the industry follows when producing a product. It is then structured logically by giving the students a set of job orders which is broken down into job packages. However, drawing on previous experience based on the framework developed, new ideas will now be exploited and tested in a new set of course developments and frameworks for courses during 2009 – 2010.

Keywords

EN

LAMS; vocational training

• Publisher: IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group & University of Nicosia
• Journal: Teaching English with Technology
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 53-63

Contributors

author

Erik Engh

• Quality Management Software AS Oslo, Norway

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