Formation Continue du Supérieur

As a result of the activities of Ikasenpresa, a programme promoted by Tknika to favour an entrepreneurial culture in the VET sector, the Ikasenpresa Programme team in Tknika (composed of 3 VET teachers) has elaborated a package aimed at VET students who wish to improve their technical and soft skills when starting up a new educational company. More...

An educational project was designed to investigate how children see and interpret their city, what they look for in public spaces, as well as to propose real solutions. After the students were sensitized on local culture, architecture, symbols and landmarks, they were asked to propose solutions for the development and shaping of the Tourist Port of their town. More...

Increasingly there are studies showing that the majority of students from vocational training courses use tablets or smartphones to access the Internet during sessions. Thus, there are ineffective the rules (in Portugal) that insist on banning these technological resources from the classroom. More...

The ubiquitous technologies are changing constantly, resulting in countless innovations. Therefore, it is demanding to rethink the integration of emerging tools, such as smartphones or tablets, combined with innovative methodologies in the educational context. More...

A team of teachers interested in disseminating ideas and good practices about the pedagogical applications of web 2.0 tools to other teachers who although interested on the subject, yet cannot find proper help on the field, created a platform hosted on Moodle and devise and run monthly courses for in-service teachers about the use of free on-line and web 2.0 tools in Environmental Education. More...

One of the these innovative approaches in teaching Italian as a second foreign language is the use of program "Skype in the classroom". This software enables a very easy collaboration with other classrooms. More...

Low achieving pupils are introduced to the concepts of variable and algorithm through elementary robotics within the curricular constraints of mathematical classes in a Liceo delle Scienze Umane. More...

FLEX is an openly-licensed practice-based professional development programme for academics and other professionals who teach or support learning at MMU with dynamic formal and informal pathways and internal, external and open development opportunities in a variety of forms which are renewed and refreshed continuously. More...

The etwinning project T.I.M.E.S. is a collective interdisciplinary project with a central aim of introducing the students from different European countries to the various national cultures creating the European identity through activities based on the use of new technologies and on the history, culture, traditions and customs constructing the modern reality of European countries. More...

The Greenhouse is a community of practitioners and a creative space for academics and other professionals who teach or support learning as well as students from MMU and others from further afield to come together and share innovative ideas linked to learning and teaching; to experiment and enable cross-disciplinary fertilisation; to inspire, stimulate and infect others with the bug for innovation and to grow as individuals and as a collective. More...