Virtual Teachers' Toolbox - An Innovative Tool to Assist the Creation of High Quality Open Distance Learning Courses

摘要

Virtual Teachers' Toolbox aims to create a special virtual toolbox for teachers as a sophisticated tool for developing open, online, flexible and technology enhanced education (OOFAT learning). This toolbox assists teachers/trainers in the course creation by offering a pedagogical framework with a special student's view, a quality enhancement framework and a new self-evaluation technic, the so-called mandala evaluation. This project uses a strategic cooperation between formal and non-formal/informal educational providers using ICT based teaching and the enhancement of digital integration in learning. It will be enhancing teachers' professional development and support students' acquisition of values, skills and competences. Additional, pilot courses as samples of proven praxis will be produced and be published as Open Educational Resources (OERs).