Course overview

Nowadays there is a growing trend towards enabling distance learning and integrating Information and Communications Technology into teaching and training. There are number of apps, web design and e-learning tools that offer educators great opportunities but not without challenges. Platforms like Moodle, Edmodo, Weebly, ect., can be a muddy environment and approaching them without proper guidance can be a time-consuming task.
Taking part in this training course teachers, trainers and education managers will learn how to create engaging multimedia content, web sites, blogs and e-learning platforms to support distance and blended learning. Through an hands-on approach and learning-by-doing methodology participants will create their first e-learning course and website during the one week training course for teachers and education staff.


​Learning outcomes

This course will guide participants through the basic steps of using web platforms and apps to allow distance learning, support blended learning, developing a website and integrating e-learning and distance learning in their educational pathways. This course allows participants to improve their ICT and digital skills in a practical and concrete way together with other participants and trainers throughout Europe.

The general aim of this course is to foster excellence in education by empowering teachers, trainers, headmasters and other education staff to integrate web platforms into teaching and education. The course has a flexible approach in order to adapt the learning outcomes to the particular needs and digital competencies of the participants.

Thanks to this course the participants will:
  • Get an overview of the most important new technologies and web platforms to enable e-learning and distance learning;
  • Learn how teachers and students can easily create and edit multimedia content;
  • Learn how to create an engaging website or blog;
  • Learn how to set up and manage an e-learning platform and involve students (and parents) in the learning process;
  • Learn how to give to education an extra dimension and how to boost learners motivation through using new technologies;
  • Learn how to deliver blended courses and combine face-to-face education with virtual learning;
  • Improve their ICT skills and their knowledge about e-learning and blended learning;
  • Exchange best practices and share experiences with participants and staff coming throughout Europe;
  • Make contacts with individuals and organizations working in the education field in Europe through everyday cooperation and networking activities.

Courses planned

2024
18/02/2024 - 24/02/2024 (Palermo)
07/04/2024 - 13/04/2024 (Tenerife)
02/06/2024 - 08/06/2024 (Tenerife)
07/07/2024 - 13/07/2024 (Palermo)
28/07/2024 - 03/08/2024 (Bologna)

2025
19/01/2025 - 25/01/2025 (Bologna)
19/01/2025 - 25/01/2025 (Palermo)
26/01/2024 - 01/02/2025 (Tenerife) 
16/03/2025 - 22/03/2025 (Porto) 
27/04/2025 - 03/05/2025 (Tenerife)
12/10/2025 - 18/10/2025 (Tenerife)
19/10/2025 - 25/10/2025 (Bologna)
19/10/2025 - 25/10/2025 (Palermo)
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If none of these dates suits you please mind that if there are at least 8 participants interested we may organize an additional session ad-hoc for your school.

Target audience

This course is addressed to teachers, trainers, educational counsellors, career counsellors, school psychologists, headmasters, school management and administrative staff working in primary schools, secondary schools, vocational schools, training centres, adult education schools, higher education and NGOs. 
This course is recommended for people with basic computer skills. If you consider yourself an intermediate ICT user we recommend you to enroll in our course “Integrating ICT and new technologies into teaching and education” or “Teaching languages in the digital era: the best apps, web platforms and solutions for learning languages”.

Language

The course is held in English. For groups with at least 8 participants, we can organize an ad-hoc session in a different language. 
Please write an email to [email protected] to get more information about it.

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"This course has provided me new knowledge and tools which I can implement in my classes and teaching methods. The organization and service were wonderful! I have always had the support that I needed from everybody in ELA and the hotel. It was an experience that I will remember for lifetime."

- Dragana Gorički, Croatia

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"In a time of overall social disruption, in the world and in the EU, to meet and co-create with the participants from all over Europe, to share our constraints and emotional context, was such an exceptional experience!! I have had the opportunity to re-think and appreciate more shared values of Europe Union!"

- Davorka Beg, Croatia

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"Intense, effective and useful! I would recommend the course to fellow colleagues back in Latvia to get the basic knowledge of ICT tools and to push themselves to go deeper and to know more!"

- Airita Mileika - Plume, Latvia

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"The course was very well-organized and well-planned. The trainer was perfect. It was easy to understand what he was explaining and to follow his instructions. He gave us enough time to assimilate things and we had enough practice for every tool."  

- Irina Savova, Bulgaria

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Standard daily programme

Please find below the standard indicative daily programme that will be personalized on participants needs and professional profiles. 
Our standard programme comprises 7 days, of which the first one is dedicated to networking, preparation and cultural immersion and the last one to follow up, specific needs and cultural activities. Please note that we always do our best to accommodate the specific needs of our participants in a flexible way, including but not limited to budget restrictions and travel arrangements. Participants can choose to arrive 1 day before the start of the course and/or leave one day after the end of it in order to enjoy a deeper cultural immersion. Upon specific request we can organize longer versions of this course.   
Sunday
- Participants arrival
- Orientation and information about the venue and the city 
- Networking activities
- Walking tour in the venue’s city​
Monday
- Course introduction
- Needs and expectations evaluation
- The growing trends towards integrating new technologies and web platforms into education
- Collaborative platforms
- Introduction to virtual whiteboard 
- Practical work: turning your device into a virtual whiteboard integrating different media
- Sharing and storing ideas
- Practical work: designing a collaborative wall according to a purpose and managing a blog page
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Tuesday
- Introduction to e-learning, blended learning and flipped classroom
- Practical work: effectively managing virtual classes through motivating adds-on and tools
- Practical work: creating collaborative virtual spaces
- Practical work: creating and administering quizzes and assignment in real time
- Practical work: how to effectively hold formative assessment sessions in virtual classes
Wednesday
- Introduction to web design
- Empowering the students to use websites to create portfolios and record learning outcomes
- Practical work: creating your personal teaching website or personal blog
- Testing and practicing some of the most common game based learning tools
- Practical work: creating and running a digital learning group game for all ages
- Practical work: digitally recapping a concept and creating small digital exercises
Thursday
- Additional tools for web design and practice on your blog and web-design
- Practical work: adding pages to you website or a post to your blog
- Practical work: giving a structure to your website
- Practical work: adding a photo gallery, embedding a video in your website
- Practical work: designing and integrating outstanding multimedia content in your website or blog 
- Practical work: adding a survey or a test     
Friday
- The next era of presentations: how to impress and engage the audience
- Practical work: creating interactive images, table of content and stunning presentations
- Practical work: creating a visual virtual experience for your students
- Review of additional apps, web platforms and ICT resources for teaching and education
- Tailored practice based on the participants learning needs and expectations
- Farewell dinner
Saturday
- Space for discussion of future cooperation and planning follow up activities
- Course roundup and final evaluation
- Validation of learning outcomes and certification ceremony
- Additional training session tailored to specific needs (optional)
- Participants departure
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Other relevant facts

  • Methodology
  • Costs and Erasmus+ Funding
  • Certification and Validation of learning outcomes
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We tailor the working methods based upon participants’ needs, attitudes and professional profiles in order to ensure high productivity, effectiveness and transferability into practice.
The standard methodology is highly practical and participative with hands-on approach that comprises real-job examples, case studies examination and simulations. We embrace collaboratively working methods that foster mutual learning and cooperation among participants. Our focus is on learning outside the traditional classroom setting and to create  an interactive and international environment. The pedagogical methods that we use are based upon experiential training, group and peer activities, learning-by-doing and best practices’ exchange.
Morning Wrap-up and brief daily evaluations are foreseen to ensure quality of education and to adapt the learning programme to participants' needs better tailoring the education.
Free time has been planned to give to the participants time to assimilate the concepts, develop further the group activities, ask trainers for further clarifications, etc. Networking and cooperation among participants will be supported and stimulated at each stage.
We organize optional social, networking and cultural activities in order to give participants the opportunity to know the venue place as well as to exchange best-practice and establish professional cooperation and links.
The training and staff team is multinational thus giving a full European dimension to the course.
Teachers, trainers, headmasters and any other staff of education organizations are eligible to receive an Erasmus+ grant covering all the costs to attend our training courses including travel, board and lodging, cultural activities and all fees. Our training courses are tailored to be fully funded by Erasmus+ and we offer different options to ensure the best comfort and quality at a price that is within the Erasmus+ grant.
We are proud to tailor our training courses to both participants' learning and practical needs and to ease your participation at our training courses, we will gladly take care of all the practical arrangements. If you prefer, you can take care of some of the practical arrangements by yourself (e.g. meals, local transport...), though we will manage the organization of your accommodation in order to ensure optimal logistic organization, safety and time-efficiency. We always provide board and lodging in the same hotel in which we organize the course  thus ensuring optimal comfort and potential of networking with the fellow participants. Read more about  how we take care of your subsistence and practical arrangements. 
The most common option that we offer to schools and organisations in 2025 costs 1405 EUR in Bologna, 1330 EUR in Tenerife and Thessaloniki and 1225 EUR in Palermo, Porto and Rimini and includes course fee, certification and support fee, accommodation in single room, 2 coffee breaks per day, walking tour in the venue’s city, a sum-up dissemination video. The standard option in Bologna, Tenerife and Thessaloniki includes all meals from Sunday lunch to Saturday lunch, while in Palermo, Porto and Rimini includes all breakfasts and three networking meals in local restaurants. Few of our courses include extra services and activities hence having a different pricing option, which will be communicated upon receiving the pre-registration.
For schools sending 2 or more participants we can offer accommodation in double rooms and we can provide as well accommodation for people or relatives accompanying the participants.
When attending our courses, we recommend you to request 9 days of individual support for your subsistence costs, 7 days for the course plus 2 additional days for the travel. In this way you can have more flexibility in planning your stay and you can enjoy all the cultural activities planned from the first to the last day of course. You can read here more about the Erasmus+ funding. Shall you have need any help with filling the budget during the application stage or have any problem with your grant please let us know and we will see how to support you.
At the end of the course, each participant will be awarded a certificate of attendance, together - if requested - with the Europass Mobility Certificate. The certificate are in line with the Erasmus Quality Standards and include a short description of the course and its learning outcomes, dates, venues, the name of the course provider and the course instructor(s).
We support the participants in every step of certification and validation of learning outcomes with specific focus on European instruments and Erasmus plus requirements such as staff mobility/learning agreement, quality commitment and Europass mobility certificate.
We experienced that schools and education organizations may require additional documents to certify the competences learned or the presence in the training course. Upon request we can provide additional certification and reporting documents as well as we provide photos of the training course and a sum-up video that can be used for visibility and dissemination purposes.

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