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The EKT Project is in its final phase now. Please read our project newsletter which highlights the EKT Final Conference, piloting activities and the first final project results available.

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.      

Project of interest to researchers investigating placement and the role of ICT We would like to share a study from Manchester University that looked in the how technology can be used for remote supervision of teaching placements. Helen Chilton and Wendy McCracken share the perspectives of participants using of new technology for remote supervision and […]

EKT project presented in EACEA publication EACEA has recently published the “Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliances Dissemination Sheets”. The publication introduces the innovative Knowledge Alliances funding scheme implemented in many different fields by the joint work of universities, enterprises and other actors. Knowledge Alliances foster innovation in higher education, business and the broader socio-economic environment by implementing […]

The first EKT year is coming to an end. Please read our newsletter to find out more about the technical details of the EKT solution: EKT Newsletter 1