Weiterbildung - Verband Wiener Volksbildung

Volkshochschul-Fachbereich Sprachen: übergreifend
EUROVOLT Language Teacher Training Course Seminar Nr. 09 03
http://eurovolt.net
Target Group: – Experienced language teachers/trainers who wish to develop and offer online vocationally
oriented and/or language courses for professional purposes
– Trainers of language teachers from different vocational/professional fields.
The EUROVOLT course is an 8-week-online course dealing with the development of online vocational/
professional language courses. It was developed as part of the EUROVOLT via VLE project ( 005- 007). The
course is conducted in English. The following issues are dealt with:
1. Teaching Online
a) Teaching in a VLE (understanding and using VLEs)
b) Evaluating Internet resources and creating and/or using multi-media material & resources and designing
online tasks and exercises for the target groups
c) eModerating: Communication via Internet telephony (Skype), chat, forum, e-mail, and feedback
2. Learning Online
a) Online Assessment (online – and self-assessment: e.g. according to CEFR Can Do statements)
b) Independent Learning (ePortfolio in relation to EUROPASS, eTandem, best practice models, self-directed
learning materials and approaches)
c) Collaborative Learning (group dynamics, time management, psychological aspects)
3. Planning and Evaluating
a) Design an online course unit
b) Course design in a VLE
c) Organisational aspects: context, logistics and support, evaluation, budgeting, the POET principle
Optional: Technical aspects and extra resources (VLEs, webpages, course ware/free ware, Learning Styles,
Gender Mainstreaming etc.)
d) Final online seminar dealing with the course evaluation and future plans.
This course represents a blended approach that combines collaboration online with individual reading and
reflecting, practical work on trainees‘ own online courses, research on the Internet.
The course trainees have the opportunity to develop their own (model) online language courses on the
international course platform (MOODLE/at VHS Meidling) if you have no access to an own platform/VLE.
Please apply at: http://www.eurovolt.net/volt/application/ AND
fill in http://www.eurovolt.net/volt/application/selfassessment
Online Tutors:
Kirsten Söntgens, University of Southampton
Karolina Krzywicka-Szpor, SWPS e-learning Centre
Inge-Anna Koleff, Die Wiener Volkshochschulen GmbH
A detaild course information will be distributed. Contact Inge-Anna Koleff, course organiser and tutor:
E-Mail: inge-anna.koleff@vhs.at, Tel.: 00 3-(0) -89 7 -305
Course schedule: 18 weeks, 13 th October 2008 until 16 th May 2009 (including holidays)
Registration Fee: € 50 • Course Fee: € 990 • Diploma Certifi cation costs: € 150
Application needed. Closing: 1 st September 2008
The course is accredited with ECTS by the ICC – the European Language Network and the WeiterBildungsAkademie
Austria.