Author : Gunther Pany

Spanish EKT focus group with technicians, students, teachers and researchers This focus group in relation to the EKT smart system for supporting in-school placements of future teachers was held on 23 February 2023. teaching practicum. The group was composed of USC researchers involved in the EKT Project, CESGA technicians who have developed the online platform, […]

Second piloting cycle of the EKT system in Spain has come to an end On Friday 24 February 2023, a focus group meeting of the EKT project was held at the Faculty of Education Sciences of Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.  Participants were a group of teachers in pre-school, primary and secondary education with experience […]

Validation session at CESGA of the final version of the EKT system. On 23 February 2023 the first usability and design tests of the third and final version of the EKT online platform for supporting in-school placements of student teachers were carried out at CESGA, the supercomputation centre of the region Galicia, Spain) These tests […]

Dissemination activities of the EKT Project by the Spanish team In the past weeks, the Spanish EKT team were carrying out different activities to disseminate the EKT Project. Some of these activities were global, presenting the project and its products, mainly the technological ones. Others were specifically focused on the dissemination of the designed methodology. […]

Launch of EKT project results at Final Conference The European project Educational Knowledge Transfer (EKT) is now facing its last implementation stage with the celebration of the final conference to be held on 13 April 2023 in the auditorium of the Faculty of Education of the University of Santiago de Compostela. In this project of […]

Spanish EKT pilot resumes activities and goes into last phase Between October and January, the second cycle of the EKT system pilot in Spain was developed and implemented. A total of 81 students and around 20 tutors from 2 degrees in the infant and primary school traineeship period are participating. During these months the pilotees […]

Prestigious journal Education Sciences publishes new article on EKT! Researchers from University of Santiago de Compostela have just published an article in which they present the main results obtained in the research carried out on the collaboration between internship mentors in the supervision processes of future trainee teachers. The main results show the need to […]

EKT technological platform at EDUTEC 2022 The Erasmus+ project “Educational Knowledge Transfer” (EKT) was present within the thematic line “Transformative management of education and technologies” in the XXV edition of the International Congress EDUTEC 2022, for the development of Educational Technology and New Technologies applied to education, held on 16, 17 and 18 November at […]

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 […]