Visiting different schools is valuable for visitors, at the same time it is even more valuable to the school and students. Our school gets every year around 60 interested groups from 25 different countries – teachers, politicians, students and researchers, media: newspapers, TV and even different businessman’s from Japan to USA that want to see how we use technology in our lessons. More...
An Active language lab
Teach, sing and learning English in a digital lab using ICT, games, music, arts and crafts, movies, songs , producing digital learning objects together with my students. More...
Innovative Teaching of Responsible Research and Innovation in Science Education
This study investigates how the ENGAGE HUB can support teachers’ to develop new strategies to equip students with knowledge and skills. The European project ENGAGE (engagingscience.eu) aims is to increase awareness of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) through Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) by reaching 12.000 teachers and 360.000 students in 14 countries. More...
“Let’s do this together and see what we can come up with!” Teachers’ Views on Applying Game-based Pedagogy in Meaningful Ways
Game-based pedagogy offers a promising approach to renewing school education and making it more engaging. However, teachers’ ways of using game-based pedagogy have been rather traditional, not making use of its full potential. More...
Barriers and solutions to innovation in teacher education
This article proposes how mobile technologies are being employed innovatively in teacher education across the European Union, contributing to an adjustment in teacher training models. More...
Towards innovation in digital and open scholarship for nonrivalrous lifelong learning and supporting open learning
The Open Scholars Network was created with an agenda to respond to the increasing inaccessibility of higher education to underprivileged learners in Rwanda, and to the need for open scholarship and digital scholarship development among academics in this country. More...
A project-based MOOC to facilitate teacher-led innovation
Based on the First Principles of Instruction and the Learning Design approach, the course premises are that teachers are designers and the key drivers to promote innovation via the inclusion of ICT in education. Key figures from the last edition of the HANDSON MOOC are presented to proof its usefulness as an on-going CPD activity. More...
Teacher design knowledge and beliefs for technology enhanced learning materials in early literacy: Four portraits
Teacher engagement in the design of technology-rich learning material is beneficial to teacher learning and may create a sense of ownership, both of which are conducive to bringing about innovation with technology. More...
Flipped training model for teachers
The emergence of new devices in education, has created new paradigms for teaching, learning and training. Even if the Flipped Classroom is not used in Romania, is the time to make a change in the training structures and models, and promote an innovative frame for training using Flipped Classroom model. More...
BYOD into the classroom: A new challenge for teachers
In recent years, more and more students have been attending lectures with laptops and other mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones in hand. More...