TRAINING OF TRAINERS & TUTORS

TRAINING OF TRAINERS & TUTORS

Moderator:
Ana Cristina Paulo, Director National trainers Centre, National Institute for vocational Training and Employment (IEFP).

Speakers:

• Adrian Snook, Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Learning and Development Programmes the Training Foundation;
• Richard Willwood, Founder and Director ,Core Education UK;
• Tauno Tertsunen, Senior Lecturer, HAMK University of Applied Sciences, Vocational Teacher Education Unit
  

Needs and concerns raised

Research and writing about good training is urgently needed in an era dominated by political demands, but also by the civil society for accountability and efficiency.

What are the emerging professions/profiles in e-learning training organisation?

What are the best European practices in certifying the competences?

Is there a need for common standards, leading to pedagogical courses /training, before entering the labour market?

Approaches, strategies and issues presented

Trainers they have to be facilitators.Re - skilling the stakeholders.

New learn paradigm- the main change is perhaps the shift towards a new learning paradigm based on learning outcomes.

Trainers become a knowledge manager or a performance manager.

The success of e-learning depends of e-professionals that must be seen as the stakeholders in training innovation and reform.

E-learning cycles must be structured very clearly;clear roles for teachers, students, tutors, assistants.

E-learning teachers must not to neat the ski track so clear that students only ski along the ski truck.

Create a Standards and Competency Framework Development as a guarantee of quality for e-trainers and e-tutors.“The word e-learning may well die, but learning lives on…”

The training of trainers & tutors should be delightful!

Which questions were left open and could not be answered?

What are the core –competences for e-trainers and other net learning facilitators?

Are we making what is really important in this field?

What are the crucial differences between the core competences demanded by teachers in traditional class room and the e-learning trainers?

Conclusions:
¨ To support the development of common standards of competences for e-trainers and other e-professionals, at an European level, considering this as a pre-condition to enter the profession , related to levels 5-7 of the EQF;

¨ Support the development of an online e-skills self assessments tool for e-trainers;

¨ To support and disseminate experiences at transnational level support recognition and validation of experiential learning;

¨ Develop networking between trainers, to raise productivity and peer learning. Could be interesting to create European open distance learning network and to increase in the European programmes the investments in e-learning training programmes;

¨ The quality of the sector could be improved establishing, by an European entity, a set of standards to guarantee a major efficacy and efficiency of e-learning materials.

Maria do Carmo Bessa - Rapporteur

Motivating Learning

Moderator:
Kevin Johnson, Education Sector Manager for Europe, CISCO

Speakers:
Concépcion Laguela, Director of the Recruitment and Training Department of Correos de Espana: "E-learning in Correos of Spain: A consolidated reality"
Karl Steffens, Professor, Education Department, University of Cologne: "Motivating learning: A view from psychology"
Luis Matos, HR Director, Portugal Telecom: "PT is becoming a Learning Organization"

The curriculum or learning contents may be excellent, the teacher or tutor may possess excellent pedagogical skills and the context of the learning process might be particularly captivating but if the motivation is not there learning will not happen. We are all surrounded by a great variety of appeals and each “learner” is unique and raises the issue of how to motivate learning.

In this session the main questions that where addressed were:

1 What are the main motivators and demotivators to learning?

Motivation is whatever drives action, both at individual and organizational level. This includes the recognition of the need to learn in order to succeed more, serious concerns of the consequences of not learning and the perception that one’s own capabilities are enough to deal with the learning challenge.

2. What are the major challenges, opportunities and considerations?

The learning environment, in all its complexity, is key to success. This includes the learners themselves, their teachers or tutors, everyone else around them, the organizational approaches to learning and the technology enablers.

3. How can ICT’s help?

Effective use of user-friendly ICT’s, in a systematic and integrated way, can improve the access to learning, the quality of certain elements of learning, the scale of benefit, as well as reduce the time and cost to achieve that benefit.


Maria de Lurdes Calisto

Plenary 1: Delivering on the Lisbon Agenda

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Needs and concerns:
E-Learning was in the political agenda in 2000 but lost visibility along the years, so we have to re-invent a new Lisbon Strategy beyond proposals of 2000 and the revision in 2005;
We all recognize that Europe will not succeed in 2010 to become the most advanced and competitive economy of the world, but we have to work in that way, changing the European culture, introducing a risk and competitive awareness;
Coordination is missing on the Lisbon Strategy concerning e-Learning;
e-Learning is still too much on academic areas and on the formal education system;
We have to start to add value to the member countries and regions in Europe;
We are still dealing with the past and far away from the new challenges (self regulation, help people to think, learning to drive, etc.);
We need more linkage between Productivity and ICT possibilities;
Innovation attitudes are missing in Europe;
We need new e-learning research and concepts based on social web, orchestrating new challenges related with web teams;
Europe is still far away from the opportunities of the connected knowledge economy and the challenges of the Lisbon Agenda;
We need to improve the awareness of Europeans for the Lisbon Agenda and the social innovation proposed for individuals, enterprises and governments;
Internet introduces a new paradigm for distributed network and not only centralized or decentralized, with a direct impact on citizens. We must be proud to be Europeans;
Collaboration platforms are still missing in Europe and there is a huge gap between the fragmented market players and the social needs;
We need to improve motivation for learning not only in schools but also in enterprises and governmental agencies. – A new culture of learning is missing;
We have to live in new communities of learning.

Proposals:
Creation of new international networking consortiums;
Break actual learning system;
Creation of open standards;
Creation of an action plan for innovation;
Promotion of new learning contents and environments for the jobs of tomorrow, with hope and new career opportunities;
Go beyond individual and group empowerment succeeding on networks empowerment, increasing European performance and succeeding on the new Lisbon Agenda. – Power to the networks and interaction on contents;
Individuals must learn face to face in a new social web (Innoagent programme with European spin-ins);
Create new tools for people and small groups integration, linking innovation to people;
We have to move from Europe ownership of 2000 and nations ownership of 2005 to social ownership of the new Lisbon Agenda for tomorrow;
Is important to create a large European market for e-learning, with specific budgets on schools, governmental agencies and enterprises;
Creation of credits related to learning;
Creation of open platforms for e-learning, involving universities;
New broadband networks infrastructures are needed for alive collaboration and video content;
Old people is a problem but also an opportunity for e-learning in Europe;
Each one must create their own energy for a “long life learning” in a changing environment;
Each member state in Europe must create a new merit culture, with objectives, evaluation and written reports;
Improve competitiveness and aggressiveness;
Improve global and distributed learning;
Enterprises must replace paper manuals of their products for electronic tutorials and e-learning tools, improving ICT competence in society;
Local authorities must use electronic tools for community proposals, helping citizens to solve their problems and linking populations to politicians and decision makers.

Final conclusions:
Improve social web;
A new manual for 2010;
A new alive network for innovation regarding and involving all the people;
New ways, new targets to the projects;
Use massive collaboration for each specific propose;
Use clients as producers of e-manuals and digital contents;
Personalize for a network world, learning more and faster.
New accountability methods, questioning actual reports and evaluation routines;
Look for results with target users;
Use e-learning tools to solve environmental problems;
Civil society must be more evolved on e-learning initiatives and not only formal institutions.

E for energy, enthusiasm, elevated, electric ...

My role is rapporteur for the two sessions with Etienne Wenger on Informal Learning and Learning Communities.

As I get ready to leave for the conference my feet tingle with anticipation as to what it's going to be like. My own engagement in self, knowledge and the world - in other words, my learning - has always been a dance between people, tools, conversations, struggle and laughter. Is today going to be part of that dance?

At a conference on eLearning I would expect to catch a glimpse into the playfulness, imagination, and risk-taking that new technologies demand of us in order to learn. I wonder if I will. And I wonder what else I'm going to discover and who else I'm going to know ...

Bev Trayner