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Utilization of Cooperative and Collaborative Learning in Technical Teacher Training and Engineering Education over National Boarder

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The Masters level Opportunities and Technological Innovation in Vocational Teacher Education project aims to develop the use and management of virtual learning environments in the area of vocational teacher training, drawing on a well established international partnership of institutions providing both technical and educational expertise. This paper gives an overall picture of results and products of the collaboration. We touch upon the aims, the assessments and the learning process of using “Multimedia and e-Learning: e-learning methods and tools” module in detail. The main cooperative and collaborative devices are presented in virtual learning environment. The communication during collaborative learning, the structured debate on forum and the efficiency of collaborative learning in VLE are interpreted at the end of this paper.

Preliminaries At one of the legal predecessors of the Centre for Teacher Training and Engineering Education of Budapest Polytechnic, at the Institute for Engineering Education, an electronic syllabus package of four modules was developed in 2004 as a result of a project supported by ”Apertus” Public Foundation (project leader: Dr. Péter Tóth). The objective of the project realised under the leadership of one of the authors was the development of an electronic syllabus package with unlimited availability in space and time together with accompanying methodological aids in the topics of education technology and multimedia. The main areas of the application for the syllabus package are teacher training and in-service teacher training as well. As a result of the project, the processing of the education technology and multimedia syllabuses was completed in distant teacher training and took place in a blended form in full time teacher training. At the beginning of the term students received the electronic syllabus on CD first and later also in a form downloadable from an FTP server. The electronic syllabus package was comprised of the following parts: - Basic skills module: it presents the basic terminology of educational technology and multimedia development and expectations towards such materials. - Editing Individual media module: its purpose is to learn the skills necessary for the activities related to the planning and editing of digital media. This module consists of two pats. One presents the tools of editing time-independent (images and figures) while the other those of time-dependent (audio and video) media. - Multimedia Editing module: to learn the skills related to Authorware shell necessary for the development of e-learning software. Two methodological aids were also developed to accompany the syllabus modules. Students of technical teacher training taking part in the training may, after graduation, participate in adult retraining and in-service training, too, where electronic-based distance learning may play a decisive role. Therefore we considered it important to elaborate recommendations helping the teacher’s (tutor’s/instructor’s) work, which process methodological questions in connection with

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Rudas, I., & Toth, P. (2009, June), Utilization Of Cooperative And Collaborative Learning In Technical Teacher Training And Engineering Education Over National Boarders Paper presented at 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition, Austin, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--15621