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 March, 2009 2
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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be heldresponsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.Page 1 of 4
Connect theTEachers to reach and teach theNEtGENeration
LLP-LdV-TOI-2008-HU-016
Welcome
This 24 months long project is a collaboration of 11partners from five countries. The “transfer of innovation” will ‘valorize’ the results of two earliersuccessful LdV projects: SLOOP and NETIS. TheSLOOP project (Sharing Learning Objects in anOpen Perspective) demonstrates key concepts in e-learning 2.0; NETIS provides the philosophical,sociological, and pedagogical basis to support newparadigms of teaching and learning in theInformation Society. The aim of Tenegen project isto establish an European environment of ’connectivism’ for VET teachers and trainers, toshow the significant advantages of being connectedto the n-Gen instead of simply ’delivering’ knowledge through virtual classrooms and LearningManagement System.
Tenegen Teamhttp://tenegen.prompt.hu 
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CONNECT THE TEACHERS TO REACH AND TEACHTHE NET GENERATION
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WELCOME
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TENEGEN SURVEY
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TENEGEN’S COURSE DESIGN
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NEWS
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EVENTS
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PROJECT BASICS
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This issue were published by:Prompt-G Education, Gödöll
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, 2009. HungaryEditor: Mária HartyányiCopyright © Tenegen Consortium
Tenegen Survey
… for teachers and trainers has been launched…The questionnaire isaccessible in three languages (in English, in Hungarian and in Turkish). Thetime we spent with establishing it was a bit long… The target countries areTurkey and Hungary what means that we wait to fill out the questionnairemainly from these two countries, but teachers from other European countrieswould be welcomed to collaborate. In Hungary all of the vocational schoolswill take part, so we hope to get a sample covering the whole Hungariansystem of vocational education and partly of the adult education.The project partnersdid their best effortsto elaborate real professional questions, to get back all theinformation we need for the course development. At last,when the experts believed they managed to establishabsolutely perfect, it was tested by colleagues, who foundagain and again sentences which were not quite clear forthem and we worked over it again and again. On thepictures you see the workshop where we strongly tried tounderstand each other!
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. The final version contains 50questions, and takes – on our estimation – for about onehour to fill in.
If you are interested, please visit the site register and give your comments!
From the surveywe would like to obtain information about the present situation using ICT, web 2.0 tools in the VET schools –keeping in eye all possible aspects. The aim of the survey to get figures about the state of the art:
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are the schools equipped with the suitable ICT infrastructure to apply them in the every day work;
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how far are the teachers supported at organizational level;
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how far are the teachers aware of the changes emerged by the new networking technology;
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how far are they know of the networking culture of their students;
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how far are they trained in using these tools for pedagogical aims.The survey will be carried on during the next month, and the results will be processed at the end of June.
 
http://survey.prompt.hu
 
 
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Tenegen’s Course Design
Frequently claimed by experts, that the main problem with the e-learning developments the lack of detailed designing,or there will not be all the possible aspects (social, pedagogical, technological, organisational, etc.) integrated. Weagree with this statement. A search for the expression “course design” gives as many as 83 Millions hits in Google.All the same we are designing learning events/course for traditional classroom or for technology-enhanced learning(newly mentioned as TEL), the starting point should be to define what we want to achieve, what are the learningobjectives (LOs) and the learning outcomes (OCs). The prerequisite of Tenegen’s development was the Hungarainonline course for VET teachers in tree online modules with the learning objective to develop the Tecahers’ e-learningcompetencies, to help them to integrate the ICT tools in their pedagogical practice. In Tenegen project two furthermodules will be added to the course to extend the original learning objectives with the conception of network learningintegrating the web 2.0 possibilities, and the conception of “sharing learning objects in an open perspective”. Thisextension needed to over think the original three modules too, in order to establish a consistency among theobjectives and outcomes of the original and the new modules. We are almost ready with the profound conception of Tenegen course – with the Tenegen Pedagogical Model (TPM) of network learning. The most important principle of themodel is: do not teach, but involve the teachers – by integrating as many interactive collaboration tools as possible.The next step will be the technological design: a unified storyboard for the units, and select the methods and tools forthe content development and the implementation in Moodle.
News
Recently a summary was published on the website of JRC, of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commissionunder the title “
Review
 
of Learning 2.0 Practices - The Impact of Web 2.0 Innovations on Education andTraining in Europe
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http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC50704.pdf  
) –authored by the researchers of IPTS (Institutefor Prospective Technological Studies).The study summarizes the results of an European workshop, organized in Sevilla, in October, 2008. The topicsdiscussed in the study have several relations to Tenegen project. The authors collect the viewpoint of the experts of the workshop about the innovation potential of learning 2.0, the new schooling culture, the next steps to process inresearch on the field, and the beliefs on the future of learning. One small quote to facilitate everybody to read thwhole study:
“Complementing traditional educational models with social computing tools is dramatically changing the role of teachers. They are becoming facilitators of processes of knowledge (co) constructions, in which learners take a far more active part than they have ever done. Current educational systems may be failing to support their teaching staff to face this challenge. With respect to the e-learning paradigm, the Web2.0 approach is far less technology centered and far more learner-centered. This shift of focus carries important changes in the way teaching is understood.Teachers are seen more and more as “scaffolding”, i.e. as guides who help children/students to learn to perform(cognitive) activities that they could not master by themselves.”…”The panel suggested that the formal educationworld is likely to undergo a process of disruption. It also noted that 
if E&T institutions are to be part of thetransformation and not just suffer its consequences, they must address a number of challenges and risks.
  “. Some of the methods listed to avoid the risks – suggested by the author have special importance regardingTenegen’s aims:
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“Not pushing the paradigm as ICT-enabled learning, and learning the lessons of eLearning.…
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Ensuring that teachers are involved in the process of transformation, that they share the Learning2.0vision, that they are skilled enough to promote the transformation.
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Elaborating incentives for teachers who adopt, set up and promote innovative initiatives.
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Rethinking the notion of learning outcomes and certification in the light of social computing-enabled  practices, to keep the pace with the transformation of society.” 
Just these are the efforts Tenegen Team is working on!
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K Ala-Mutka, M Bacigalupo, S Kluzer, C Pascu, Y Puniet, C Redecker: e-Learning2.0:The Impact of Web2.0Innovation on Education and Training in Europe, (Report on a validation and policy options workshop organised byIPTS Seville, 29-30 October 2008), JRC-IPTS, Sevilla, 2009.
 
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Events
 “1st Education-technology Conference” conference was organized by Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology of theUniversity of Science Lóránd Eötvös in Budapest, on the 30 of January, 2009. The aim of the conference to establish adiscussion platform of experts, teachers - who carry on reseach or developments on the field of education, pedagogy,psychology, or just working on one of them these fields. The participants were Hungarian teachers, researchers andprofessors from the higher education. The main topics of the conference were:
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digital knowledge bases, multimedia
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self-studying, self-reflexing
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tools of developing learning skills
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e-Portfolio
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education in the information society
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digital culture, Net Generation
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online learning environments, LCMS, VLE
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ICT supported learning/teaching in the classroom
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web2.0, eLearning 2.0, "social networking"Tenegen was represented by two speakers, Árpád Bánhidi (P6-ÖJSZIGK) and Mária Hartyányi (P0-Prompt) on theevent:Mária hartyányi: Network Learning – case studyÁrpád Bánhidai: Virtual Learning Environment in the grammar school József ÖvegesBoth lecture were published in the conference book. The presentation of Árpád is available on the Tenegen portal(http://tenegen.prompt.hu/hu/content/virtualis-tanulasi-ter-kialakitasa-oevegesben).
Project basics
Acronym
: TENEGEN
Title:
Connect the teachers to reach and teach the Net Generation
Duration
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October 2008 – 30. September 2010
Action type:
Transfer of InnovationProgramme: Leonardo da Vinci – LLL SubprogrammeParticipating countries: Hungary, Italy, Germany, TurkeyWebsite:http://tenegen.prompt.hu Contact: Mária Hartyányi, Prompt-G Educational Centre for Informatics, HungaryE-mail:maria.hartyanyi@prompt.hu, skype: hmaria718
Partnership
PROMPT Prompt-G Educational Centre for Informatics, HU (Co-ordinator)CNR National Research Council - Institute for Educational Technology, ITISERG Information Society Education and Research Group University of West Hungary, HUCAPDM CAPDM Ltd,.UKDEKRA DEKRA Akademie GmbH, DEBUNI Balýkesir University TRÖJSZIGK Öveges József Vocational and Grammar School, HUNIVE National Institute of Adult and Vocational Education, HUBJMSZ Bottyán János Vocational Secondary School, HUKGYGIVSZ Krúdy Gyula Secondary School, HUSZIGSZ Széchenyi István Secondary Grammar School, HU
Target groups
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teachers and trainers in vocational education,
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trainers in adult education;
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school-leaders (headmasters) in VET schools and the staff of higher education institutes,
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students of vocational schools ;
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university students;
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policy makers;
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European e-learning providers.
Objectives
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elaborate a pedagogical model of network learning and ‘connectivism’;
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develop an online repository of Open Source Learning Objects;
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develop a TENEGEN network learning environment based on open source LMS;
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elaborate and implement five training modules in three languages (HU, EN, TR);
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establish pilot training courses for teachers and trainers;
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validate and verify the results in VET schools;
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disseminate the results all over Europe.
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