Year: 2022

EKT in Portugal In the past moths, the Portuguese project partner CIEd – Research Centre on Education, Institute of Education, University of Minho, Braga has been busy to implement various EKT activities. These were the highlights. A transnational meeting of the EKT project partners was held in Braga in July. Finally the partners after mainly […]

Work in progress on the final interface of the EKT platform In December 2022, a workshop of the EKT project coordination and the technical team responsible for the development of the EKT intelligent system for internships, i.e USC, CESGA, LUSOINFO II MULTIMEDIA, BEEZNEST took place in Vienna. The EKT intelligent system represents one of the […]

EKT project meeting in Vienna The EKT project partners met at University College of Teacher Education, Vienna, from December 12 to 13, 2022. The productive meeting was the start of the last project phase. EKT comes to an end on April 30, 2023. Have a look at the meeting summary.    

EKT presented to Irish students Dr Alison Egan and her colleague Miriam Colum of project partner Marino Institute of Education, Dublin, were invited to speak to second year Bachelor in Education students on use of the EKT platform, for their special education placement, in early November 2022.  There were a number of questions from students […]

EKT at BERA conference Dr Janet Georgeson and  Dr Alison Egan presented on the EKT Project at British Educational Research Association (BERA) annual conference in Liverpool on 8th September 2022 about how the pilot implementation of the EKT Platform was going in each of their countries.     

The Austrian pilot experience The EKT e-learning system is currently undergoing an intensive test phase to receive valuable feedback from teacher students, their educators and mentors. The Austrian project partner PH Wien is sharing their experience gained in a video presentation.      

COVID-19 as a motor of digitalization  EKT seeks share insights with thematically related projects in other education sectors. The project C19 d-Response (https://covid19digitalresponse.eu/), for instance, addresses the challenge many VET providers faced at the outbreak of the pandemic when all of a sudden their educational offers had to be turned into online learning. C19 d-Response […]

GROOVE Toolkit for Digitalization  EKT supports the interaction of student teachers, mentors and teachers in school placements. But digitalization is of course also a hot topic in other education sector. The Erasmus+ project GROOVE (https://grooveproject.eu/) has just released a toolkit for VET providers and trainers to advance their professional practices towards digitalization. It is now […]

Support students and teachers in reflection processes. In his recent article Nicolas Ducoulombier of EKT project partner BeezNest presents an portfolio tool integrated in the Chamilo learning management system. It helps structuring joint self-reflection of students and teachers. Read whole article  

Our EKT platform Effective communication between teacher educators, mentors and teacher students during school placements: Have a look how this can be done on our EKT platform: https://fb.watch/eZU94ccpeu/