CHALLENGE-BASED EDUCATION

 What is challenge-based education? How can it contribute to students’ learning? How it differ from project-based and problem-based education? These questions are answered in DCU page.How to organize challenge-based education? Use this teaching template to plan your challenge-based curriculum. This challenge-based cavas may also give some inspirations...

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ORGANIZE ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT

 Teaching online does not mean a simple copy of face-to-face teaching activities in a virtual environment. By encouraging teachers to adopt various digital tools, the EMVITET project aims at opening teachers’ view in designing and implementing alternative forms of teaching methods as well as assessment methods to realize truly student-centered education. In this page, concrete examples and ideas are given for teachers to be inspired.Alternative...

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MOTIVATION & LEARNING

 When talking about student-centered learning, for many teachers, motivation seems to be a key issue that determines whether or not students can fully engage in their learning processes. In this page, we will introduce 2 blogs with the intention to illustrate the link between motivation and learning. This blog offers some strategies for stimulating motivation to learn. Science of MotivationBy Kou MurayamaIf you are motivated,...

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STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING

 To deploy student-centered learning, we shall first understand how human beings learn - The basic science of learningStudent-centered learning environments emphasize constructing personal meaning by relating new knowledge to existing conceptions and understandings. It is the central focus of the EMVITET project. To support learning (i.e. helping students reconstruct...

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LIFELONG-LEARNING

 he European Lifelong Learning Initiative defines Lifelong Learning as “a continuously supportive process which stimulates and empowers individuals to acquire all the knowledge, values, skills and understanding they will require throughout their lifetimes and to apply them with confidence, creativity and enjoyment, in all roles circumstances, and environments” (Watson, 2003). As it is so fundamental for the professional and personal development...

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FLIPPED CLASSROOM

 WHAT IS A FLIPPED CLASSROOM?“Inverting the classroom means that events that have traditionally taken place inside the classroom now take place outside the classroom and vice versa.”The flipped-classroom model prepares students for the class, so that you can zoom during the contact time on the application and deeper processing of the essential content. Students can also process the subject matter afterwards using, for instance, videos. This...

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DESIGNING GOOD ONLINE COURSES: HOW?

 The EMVITET project intends to support teachers to make maximum benefits of technology. Designing online/blended courses are the expected outcomes of the EMVITET teachers. In this page, some resources are offered as they contain useful and practical tips for designing and constructing good online/blended courses.Ten Tips for Emergency Remote Teachingby Paul A. KirschnerInstructional...

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