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The LVG Heidelberg, Germany has succeeded in obtaining a grant by the Leonardo-da-Vinci programme of the European Commission for a pilot project to create a platform of blended learning for arboricultural professionals in Europe.
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During a three-day kick-off meeting in Heidelberg in March 2007, staff of the LVG Heidelberg started to train the partners participating in the project in writing screenplays, handling the learning platform and producing their own digital learning materials. Each partner may contribute with comments and their own materials and has insight into the results of the whole working process. The partners thus work together in producing the screenplays to be transferred into learning programmes and will use for this purpose the open source learning platform OLAT. Discussions between partners are possible by using the chat-function. The door is now open for an intensive transnational exchange between European arboricultural training institutions.
The second meeting took place in Heidelberg in October 2007. First screenplays, ideas and drafts of the partners got discussed. Also the level of the screenplays was agreed on. All partners got trained in using the OLAT platform in a more and more professional way.
Sharon Lilly, ISA Headquarters, presented the existing e-learning materials published by ISA on several levels. Tha partners were impressed about this and realized, what is able to programm.
Thanks to the great hospitality by the LVG Heidelberg, the meeting was a further step to realize the project aims.
Further meetings took place in France in January 2008 and in the Netherlands in March 2008, where the screenplays got discussed. A third meeting is sheduled in Budapest in October 2008. |
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Results
The project products will be multimedia learning materials written in the various languages of the project partners and accessible via a learning platform. The first stage of the project consists in the development of screenplays which will serve as a base for programming multimedia learning materials. The production of screenplays is effectively supported by the open source learning platform OLAT, installed at the LVG Heidelberg. With OLAT it will be possible to create international learning groups of aboricultural students. In this way, the project will contribute to boosting the mobility of European arboricultural professionals.
A poster with all partners and short information about the project can be downloaded here. |
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Project Partners
France
Centre de Formation Professionelle Forestiere - CFPF
Germany
LAGF Grossbeeren,
LVG Heidelberg,
Working group Arboriculture within the German Landscape Contractors Association (BGL)
Hungary
IAT - Institute forAgricultural Training
Latvia
Erglu arodvidusskola (EAV- vocational school),
Sweden
European Arboricultural Council
The Netherlands
IPC Groente Ruimte, Arnhem
United Kingdom
Myerscough College
Projectleader
Christoph Hintze, LVG Heidelberg
Period of the project
The project is running from 01.03.2007 till 28.02.2009
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1. meeting of partners in Heidelberg
2007-03-25
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1. meeting of partners in Heidelberg,
2007-03-27 |
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2. Meeting of partners in Heidelberg
2007-10-09 |
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2. Meeting of partners in Heidelberg
2007-10-09 |
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