PRINTeL

ACTIVE AND TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED TEACHING AND Learning: Challenges and Perspectives”

Venue: Tbilisi, ISU, Building T Conference Hall, Kakutsa Cholokashvili Ave, 3/5

PROGRAMME:

November 13, 2019
9h30 – 10h00	Registration of the Participants
10h00 – 10h20	Welcome addresses Giga Zedania – Rector of Ilia State University      Lika Glonti – Head of the National Erasmus+ Office, Georgia     Ketevan Darakhvelidze –  Head of Development Office, ISU
10h20 – 10h30	Introducing of the Conference Workshop     Armen Budaghyan – PRINTeL Project Coordinator – YSU
10h30 – 11h30	Plenary session 1 Chair – Sandra Meier –Lecturer and Project Manager – FHJ Hybrid/Blended Teaching & Learning – Key Challenges and Solutions Moderators: Anna Alexanian – Associated Professor – YSU Tamar Mikeladze – Associated Professor – Tesau
11h30 – 11h45	Coffee Breack
11h40 – 12h45	Plenary session 2 Chair – Aleksandre Ergeshidze – Associate Professor, ISU Video as a Learning tool for teachers & students: Video Lecturing & promoting Interaction in the Classroom – Key Challenges and Solutions Moderators: Sviatlana Hanchar – Head of Department of Foreign Languages, YKSUG Dali Sekhniashvili- Ass. Prof. Faculty of Engineering, Economics, Media, Technology and Social Sciences, GTU
12h45 – 14h00	Lunch
14h00 – 15h00	Plenary Session 3 Chair – Chris van Keer – Professor, KU Leuven Active Learning with special focus on Technology Enhanced Collaborative Learning Moderators: Konstantin Mulyarchik – Associate Professor, BSU Tamari Kupreishvili – Lecturer at the Department of Political and International Relations , GTU
15h00 – 16h00	Plenary Session 4 Chair- Gunvor Larsson Torstendsdotter – Head of Didacticum, LiU Active Learning in the Flipped Classroom Moderators: Menua Soghomonyan – Associated Professor, YSU Levan Tsagareli – Professor – ISU
16h00 – 16h15	Coffee Breack
16h15 – 17h15	Plenary Session 5 Chair – Joan-Tomas Pujola – Tenured University Lecturer – UB Active learning & ICT-enhanced teaching: M-learning & gamification Moderators: Tatsiana Lisouskaya – Head of Department of Humanitarian Science, BrSTU Tamar Magalashvili – Associate Professor, ISU
17h15 – 17h30	Closing of the first day – key findings Janerik Lunquist-Professor-LiU
19h30	GALA Dinner
November 13, 2019
9h30 – 10h30	Training Outcomes from Trained Faculty Members and students Perspective Moderators: Giga Khositashvili – Invited Lecturer, ISU Arusyak Abrahamyan – Assistant Professor, NPUA Open Discussion
10h30 – 11h30	TSDC Experience – 10 minutes per EU partner Presentators : EU Participants Moderator: Elene Zhuravliova, ISU Open Discussion
11h30 – 11h40	Closing and Final Remarks Armen Budaghyan – Project Manager, YSU
11h40 – 12h00	Coffee Breack
12h00 – 13h30	Coordination meeting
13h30 – 18h00	Cultural Programme and LUNCH

The PRINTeL project No585760, funded by the ERASMUS+ Programme of the European Union,  kindly invites all suppliers to participate in the tenders for the supply of equipment for creating Technology-enhanced Active Learning Classrooms and Multimedia Lecture Capture Studios in several universities of Armenia, Georgia and Belarus. Within the frame of the tenders the following equipment amounting to 200,000 EUR is planned to be procured:

• Interactive flat panels/displays
• PTZ and Auto-tracking PTZ video cameras
• Document cameras/visualizers
• Presentation HD recorders & streamers
• Interactive classroom response systems
• Audio systems and studio kits, headphones
• Acoustic soundproof studio panels
• Lighting kits for video studios
• Desktop and laptop computers
• USB Web cameras
• Network servers and equipment, UPSs for servers

For the details of the tendering processes please visit the following websites and download the complete official tender announcements:

http://printel.am/tender/am.pdf and http://printel.am/tender/ge-by.pdf, or http://ysu.am/tender/am.pdf and http://ysu.am/tender/ge-by.pdf, or call +(37410)570677 or +(37491)720178.
The deadline for submission of tenders is 26 July 2019.

Video as a Learning tool for teachers and students
November 12 – 16, 2018

Vídeo

Introduction

It is not surprising that video has become one of the most popular instructional resources referring to online learning but it has also gained visibility in traditional classrooms. Audiovisual materials can convey and communicate complex information in a more motivating and memorable way creating richer learning experiences. Pedagogical strategies like Flipped Classroom or the usage of digital tools such as interactive whiteboards, tablets and mobile phones inside the classroom, are contributing for new teaching approaches and the increase of interaction and engagement with students.

This course will address several concrete Teaching & Learning scenarios on how to use video as a learning tool with practical cases, both in class as outside class, and examples of tools that teachers can use to motivate and engage students increasing the quality of their learning process.

Course Goals 

There are various ways to effectively use video as a learning tool and with this course teachers will have the opportunity to approach several teaching strategies that align pedagogical aims, learning outcomes with video, inside and outside the classroom. Participants will reflect and discuss the role, different implications and challenges of using video in teaching and learning and will be presented with tools that will contribute for the enhancement of their teaching practices.

More information for participants

Documentary

Realizou-se, em maio de 2019, uma conferência internacional de dois dias subordinada ao tema ”Innovative teaching and learning in Higher Education Institutions”. Esta conferência internacional, enquadrada no projeto “PRINTEL”, teve lugar na Yerevan State University (YSU), Arménia, por ocasião da celebração do seu 100º aniversário.

O programa, que incluiu sessões plenárias, apresentações em grupo, entre outras, contou com a participação da UPorto. Maria Lopes Pinto (UPorto) apresentou os resultados da formação “Video as a Learning tool for teachers and students“ e falou acerca do curso que decorreu na UPorto em novembro de 2018. Também Fernando Remião (UPorto) e Maria Lopes Pinto (UPorto) foram moderadores na sessão 3 “Video as a Learning tool for teachers & students: Video Lecturing & promoting Interaction in the Classroom“.

 

Workshop report

The workshop took place at the U.Porto Rectory between the 14th and 15th of June 2018, with the presence of 44 academic/administrative staff from 12 PRINTeL partner institutions, as well as 3 invited speakers from Portuguese Universities and 1 external visitor.

The primary objectives to accomplish through this activity were how to run effectively a TSDC and how to run effectively a workshop on elaboration of competence-based teachers training programs. With those goals in mind, the U.Porto team prepared a very focus Workshop “Building Capacities of the PRINTeL Eastern Partner Universities’ Teaching Staff Development Centers”.

The program  was very diverse and had a big impact for the eastern partners. In the end a satisfaction survey was developed and all activities were very well evaluated.   The 1st day was manly the presentations of good examples teaching staff canters in Portugal. On the 2nd day we had a more interactive and dynamic activity through the day, the world café.

The program was very well evaluated by the participants in all aspects.

                

Workshop announcement
On 14-15 June 2018 a two-day Training and Workshop will be held in University of Porto for capacity building of PC partner HEIs Teaching Staff Development Centres’ (TSDC) heads and staff with the purposes of training them on efficient operation of TSDCs and providing innovative teacher training programmes. EU partner HEIs will develop materials and deliver the training workshop. In their home universities the participants will elaborate Operational Plans for their TSDCs.

On 16 June 2018 PRINTeL project’s 1st coordination meeting will be held in University of Porto to inform the Project Steering Committee on the status of the project, to review progress and accomplishment, to plan further activities by the end of 2018 and make necessary changes and decisions.

Documentary

Workshop program 14-15 june

Workshop program 16 june

List of participants

Nataliya Mansturava, BSU TSDC leader, a dean of the faculty of advanced training and retraining interview

Svetlana Kharitonova, BSU TSDC teacher-trainer, head of department, essay 

PRINTeL Newsletter nº3

 

 

The project Kick-off meeting occur on the 15th and 16th of February, 2018 at Yerevan State University. The seminar “Change in Classroom: Promoting Innovative Teaching and Learning to Enhance Student Learning Experience in Eastern Partnership Countries”, was extremely well organized by the Yerevan State University team.

The main goals of the seminar were the promotion of development and innovation in teaching and learning, as well as the introduction of new technologies in the teaching process.

All the partners were present and the U.Porto had 1 representative. Maria Pinto presented the U.Porto as well as the work that done by the office of Pedagogical Innovation.

In frame of the project the representatives of the consortium member universities held presentations and analyze work packages, also discussed financial and administrative issues and the following work meeting was planned in Barcelona and Porto.

P1 – Yerevan State University (YSU), Armenia    – http://ysu.am/main/en

P2 – National Polytechnic University of Armenia (NPUA), Armenia – http://polytech.am/wpolytech/?lang=en

P3 – Vanadzor State University after H. Toumanyan (VSU), Armenia – http://www.education.am/english/education/vsu.html

P4 – Ilia State University (ISU), Georgia – http://iliauni.edu.ge/en/

P5 – Georgian Technical University (GTU), Georgia – http://gtu.ge/Eng/

P6 – Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University (TeSaU), Georgia – http://tesau.edu.ge/en/

P7 – Belarusian State University (BSU), Belarus – https://www.bsu.by/en/main.aspx

P8 – Brest State Technical University (BrSTU), Belarus – http://en.bstu.by/

P9 – Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno (YKSUG), Belarus – http://www.en.grsu.by/index.php?lang=en

P10 – National Centre for Strategic Research in Higher Education (NCSRHE), Armenia – http://studyinarmenia.org/

P11 – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium – https://www.kuleuven.be/english/

P12 – Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Spain – http://www.ub.edu/web/ub/en/

P13 – University of Porto (U.PORTO) – https://sigarra.up.pt/up/pt/web_base.gera_pagina?p_pagina=home

P14 – Linköpings Universitet (LiU), Sweden – https://liu.se/en

P15 – FH JOANNEUM Gesellschaft mbH (FHJ), Austria – https://www.fh-joanneum.at/en/