Transcript Lithuanian nominee

Lithuanian nominee
BOLDIC AWARD
18th of March, 2005, Riga, Latvia
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Nominees – First round
(12 courses)
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Physics: Mechanics
Information literacy and MSOffice skills
Information management
IT in Education
Development of Communities and NGOs
Staff management
Mobile technologies in business
Basics of management
Psychology
Business ethics
Statistics and social research
Health Safety in Workplace
Criteria
The activities should
 be transferable to the whole BOLDIC region
 be learner driven
 facilitate flexible/blended learning
 be innovative
 be scalable
 have a sustainable strategy
 have a sensible and appropriate technology
approach
 involve continuing evaluation
Nominees – the Second round
(4 courses)
 Information management – Vilnius
University
 Development of Communities and
NGOs – Kaunas University of
Technology
 Business ethics – Alytus College
 Health Safety in Workplace –
Kaunas University of Medicine
Development of
Communities and NGOs
Kaunas University of Technology
2002- was developed
2003, 2004 - was improved
Description
 Internet based course for community
people: strengthening “soft” skills of the
Third sector and enhancing NGOs
capacities: from knowing to doing
 Durations:
 48 hours (6 weeks)
 VME
 WebCT
 Language
 Lithuanian
Aims and Objectives
 to increase knowledge and competence of the
community people (NGO activists, community leaders,
local politicians and civil servants) in NGO
establishment and development
 to increase knowledge in lobby concept, national and
European peculiarity
 to increase knowledge and competence in public and
private sectors partnership
 Generating synergies between community people
from diverse geographical locations in solving
common problems and development of joint projects
 Fostering cooperation between academic sector and
the civil society
Target Groups
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NGOs activists,
community leaders,
local politicians and
civil servants from Lithuanian regions.
Method
 Interactive web_based course
 Based on Adult education methodology (brief
presentation, well structured, bulleted text, illustrated
with schemes, flashes, video, and pictures, enriched with
examples and practical tasks).
 Assignments: essay, case studies, discussions, debates,
document analysis
 Final assignment - Group project and public defense of
this project
 The attention in focused on learning and formation of
competences through collaborative work and
communication.
 Course respect pedagogical ethics and all learners’
projects and homework are not presented publicly.
Scenario
 F2F initial meeting
 Learning online with tutor support
 Learning material + Glossary + Additional
information resources
 Group working
 Forums, e-mail
 Self evaluation
 Assignments
 Final public defense of group project
Criteria ranking
The course should
 have a sustainable strategy
 be learner driven
 be scalable
 involve continuing evaluation
 facilitate flexible/blended learning
 be innovative
 be transferable to the whole BOLDIC region
 have a sensible and appropriate technology
approach
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