Developing the European Dimension in Teacher Education Through the Use of Multimedia and ICT

摘要

In reflecting upon these developments in general terms, the role of ICT, multimedia and the WWW has played a crucial part in fostering communication, facilitating the development of social relationships across the project team and also the effects of synergy arising from this collaboration. A core group of partners involved in these developments began their collaboration in the autumn of 1994 around a shared interest in environmental education supported by the European Commission as a network, which met just twice a year. The communication between meetings consisted of fax only at that time. The transformation that has taken place since then owes much to the effects of telematics in fostering communication between project members and facilitating the current level of collaboration which has the potential to develop much further. The successful synergy effects can be seen in the level of teacher and student exchanges between the partners and the level of joint teaching, curriculum development and evaluation and increasing levels of research and international dissemination activity.