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COVID-19 as a motor of digitalization in vocational education and training   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 […]

Brandnew: GROOVE Toolkit for Digitalization of the VET Sector   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 […]

A new EKT tool to 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  

How to communicate on 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/  

School placements: A lot of classes, meetings and event to be scheduled… Have a look at this video which shows how the Calendar Tool on the EKT platform can make life easier for teacher students, their pupils, mentors and teacher trainers: https://fb.watch/eZU94ccpeu/  

‘We are not in this alone’ – Teachers form Reflective Circles to combat stress Not an advert for a new sci-fi movie, but an interesting study, reported recently in The Conversation by Anne Southall, Fiona Gardner and Lindy Baxter of LaTrobe University in Victoria, Australia. They report the results of a three-year trial in which […]

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 Papers accepted by SITE and BERA Conferences 2022 After rigorous peer review two papers on EKT by project partner Alison Egan of Marino Institute of Education have been accepted to be presented at major education conferences: “EKT, a pilot project exploring the use and impact of a smart technological system to support school placement […]

Learn more about our EKT platform for improving initial teacher training through a cloud-based IT solution. A tutorial explains how to work collaboratively in a document, using the EKT Documents Tool: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3105083189714342

Why did we choose to use xAPI in the EKT Project ? What is xAPI ? Tin Can API (or Experience API, or xAPI) is a standard intended to facilitate the transmission of data from educational activities to a training management platform. xAPI (for eXperience API) is the name adopted for this standard which will […]