Materials

Welcome! On this page you will find materials which have been developed/used/applied to the EUROVOLT project. You are cordially invited to download and use everything for non-commercial purposes (please mind copyright)!

TEACHER TRAINING COURSE

  • Eurolta-EUROVOLT Teacher Training Framework/Scheme and EUROVOLT DIPLOMA for Online Teaching in vocational language education. See more
  • Eurolta, the ICC Teacher Training Accreditation Scheme applied to the EUROVOLT Teacher Training Course, see more.
  • The Teacher Certification - and Course Accreditation Scheme by WeiterBildungsAkademie Austria applied to the EUROVOLT teacher training course (awarded 4 ECTS).
    See more (in German also available).
    ECTS: Credits within the framework of the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System.
  • EUROVOLT Language Teacher Training Course online application form. Including a template (brief course outline) for a VOLL course to be developed throughout the training course by a trainee.
  • EUROVOLT interactive questionnaire. Self-assessment for trainees online. The list summarizes skills and competencies needed for language teaching.
  • EUROVOLT ePortfolio on it'slearning, as a model for a teacher ePortfolio kindly provided by Dr. David James Prickett (University of Potsdam, Germany), one of the EUROVOLT trainees (int. pilot course: November 2006 - May 2007).
  • EUROVOLT Can Do List for Trainees to obtain a qualified EUROVOLT Certificate of Particpation, by Kerstin Namuth, Folkuniversitetet, and Tony Fitzpatrick.
  • EUROVOLT sample template for the description of a module in an online teacher training course (VOLT); more on the EUROVOLT CD.
    Template Module Teacher Training
  • The POET Principle and checklists for setting up online courses - a model for sustainability by Kerstin Namuth, Folkuniversitetet (article).


LANGUAGE COURSE


EUROVOLT MODEL of GOOD PRACTICE

EVALUATION

  • EUROVOLT Quality Principles (PPP/pdf, 15 pages)
  • How Interactive are YOUR Distance Courses? A Rubric for Assessing Interaction in Distance Learning by M. D. Roblyer,
    Professor, State University of West Georgia, E-mail: mroblye@westga.edu
    and by Leticia Ekhaml,
    Professor, State University of West Georgia, E-mail: lekhaml@westga.edu
  • This valuable questionnaire was used for
    - the EUROVOLT teacher training course in the final online seminar in May 2007.
    - EUROVOLT trainees also applied it to their own VOLL courses.
    The results, after an overview of the EUROVOLT project, were presented at EUROCALL 2007 in Northern Ireland by Kirsten Söntgens.
    You can download and/or listen online to a podcast (appr. 15 minutes) of her presentation.


Learning & Teaching on-line: A European collaborative effort!
Thursday 6th September: Kirsten Söntgens (University of Southampton):

  • EUROVOLT VOLL Questionnaire
  • EUROVOLT Questionnaire for Trainees
  • EUROVOLT Questionnaire for Tutors
  • EUROVOLT Evaluation forms for international project meetings online
    Questionnaire for the EUROVOLT Kick-off Meeting 2005
    Questionnaire for the EUROVOLT Hagen Meeting 2007
  • The ELIAS evaluation grids for on- and offline language courses are available in English, French, and German (free download) and can be used for vocationally oriented (= VOLL), professional - , and general language courses. Two EUROVOLT project members, Steffen Skowronek (University of Potsdam) and Inge-Anna Koleff (VWV), are active members of ELIAS and have contributed to the latest developement of the grids in collaboration with other members of ELIAS (the international working group for the evaluation of computer software and internet materials for language learning). You can select the language you want the site to be displayed in (English, French, or German). The objective is to apply quality criteria for the assessment of media-based language learning materials (on- and offline) and to produce independent evaluations of language courses.


EUROVOLT Miscellaneous

  • Survey eLearning (30 pages). The Use of Technology in Education - Results of a Survey by Christel Schneider, ICC, May 2007.
  • e-Education: Educational Scenarios, Standards and Tools by Peter Baumgartner, Donau Universität Krems/Austria. A slide show to methodological problems of constructing a taxonomy of teaching methods for eLearning. This is part of his book project "eLearning Scenarios - A plead for educational variety", published in German, title: "E-Learning Szenarien - ein Playdoyer für didaktische Vielfalt". You will also find:
    -Evaluation of VOLT with LMS (2006), in collaboration with Annabell Preussler, FernUniversität Hagen/Germany
    -Taxonomy of eLearning Scenarios
    -eEducation; Educational Scenarios, Standards and Tools


Miscellaneous

  • Assessment Tool -- Criteria for LanguageQuests Meetlat -- Criteria voor TalenQuests (vriendelijk, versie 4.0). Kindly provided for the EUROVOLT course by Ton Koenraad, LQuest Project situated at ECML Graz, Austria, see more.



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