Year: 2022

EKT in Portugal

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 […]

EKT project meeting in Vienna

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

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

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.     

COVID-19 as a motor of digitalization in vocational education

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 […]

Brandnew: GROOVE Toolkit for Digitalization of the VET Sector

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 […]

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