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Bridging INSULA EUROPAE

Enhancing Pupils’ Motivation by Developing a EuropeanDimension of Learning and the Use of ICT

Guidelines for the experimentation

Bridging Insula EuropaeEnhancing Pupils Motivation by Developing European Dimension of Learning and the Use of ICT134214-LLP-1-2007-1-IT-COMENIUS-CMPGrant Agreement 2007-3435/001-001This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use whichmay be made of the information contained therein

1. Introduction

Starting from the experience of theInsula Europaeproject, Bridging_EI intends to :

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Encourage European teachers to use a new teaching method based on ActiveLearning. This would increase the quality of both teaching and learning in class byinvolving the participants in a European environment.

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Involve students in a new learning process that would increase the value of theirwork and in turn make them more responsible of

what

and

how

they study.

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Define a way to positively exploit new technologies as learning and teaching tools.

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Find a methodology for the use of TICs that can be economically andtechnologically sustainable for European schools.

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Develop a teaching method for a European culture of tolerance in school curriculaand increase a European civic conscience.Following research on

Active Learning (AL),

in particular on

Learning by Doing

and

Cooperative learning

the project has created a learning Environment based onTICs for the use of the Open Distance Learning (ODL) method.This step concentrates on the experimentation of the teaching method identified inthe previous steps. The main feature of the project is that learners will be active andinvolved in the “building” of the curricula that the project aims to develop:

a. Being Europeans means

(

Experiences on European Civic Education

)

b. Being Europeans reminds

(

Experiences on European Integration History

)

c. Being Europeans tells

(

Experiences on European Literature and Culture

)Students will develop the content of the curricula by describing their national identity.The activities will be carried out in an on-line environment and students will be free tocooperate with their European colleagues and choose the tools (videos, presentations,photos …) for their work.At the end of the project all activities will be stored and presented in a

“Virtualexhibition of images”

and a

“Short film”.

The partners of this project are:

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Euneos Oy (Finland)

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Opetusalan Opeko - National Centre for Professional Development in Education(Finland)

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Centre for Educational Initiatives Association – CEI (Bulgaria)

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Department of Information and In-Service Training of Teachers – DIUU (Bulgaria)

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Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia – SSIS Veneto (Italy)

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IMCS Intercollege Ltd – (Cyprus)

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Spanish Confederation for Educational Centers – CECE (Spain)

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Technical Railways Transports High School (Romania)

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Casa Corpului Didactic Iaşi - Teacher Training Centre (Romania)

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Mid Sweden University, Department of Educational Sciences (Sweden)

2. The Learning Environment

It is based on a Moodle platform, engineered and personalised on the Bridging InsulaEuropae specifications.Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as Learning ManagementSystem (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).It is available on the Web and teachers can use it to create online learningenvironments.

Access :Through the web pagewww.era-edu.com/bridgingieor from the project’s website www.http://www.edu-projects.eu/BridgingIe/index.asp ,and by clicking on “Bridging Learning Environment”, the platform for theexperimentation opens (see picture below).