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I•C

Training 35,000 Trainers and Educators

A Danish national initiative

The Pedagogical ICT licence

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I•C

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SFO-IT

Gymnasie-IT

EUD-IT

Sund-IT

SOSU-IT

Sprog-center-IT

Seminarie-IT

Skole-IT

Current pedagogical ICT licences

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Key notions and principles

- no ICT without a pedagogical rationale

- development, process and teamwork are the key issues

- adequate, contemporary and relevant pedagogical ICT in-service training of teachers

- ICT-integration at all levels across all subjects

- distribution across the country

- not compulsory, not an exam but a recognized certificate

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Organisation and implementation

Administration, end user hotline and support

Political board

160 course providers

800 tutors

Distributed network – 7 ICT-licences in operation

Content update

~2,000 courses

35,000 participants

20,000 driving licences issued

the rest are teachers in process

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How is this possible?

•Development - central public funding: primarily the Ministry of Education and Uni•C

• Implementation

• some central funding supports the

implementation

• implementation is the responsibility of local

government and schools

• teachers receive a reduction in teaching hours

to participate

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I•C

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Contents – Health care further ed.

5-6 months

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I•C

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Contents – Health care further ed.

1. Compulsory modules - IT and education, communication and the Internet, the production of course material

2. Optional modules• The use of presentations• Production of websites• Digital image processing• Flexible learning• Multimedia• Spreadsheets and statistics software• Evaluation• Databases• Producing and working with texts• Educational resources on the web

3. Compulsory – ICT in project based learning

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I•C

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Contents – School-IT (compulsory ed)A

- I

ntro

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B -

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C -

Com

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info

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F -

Mul

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web

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Cro

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5-6 months

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Material for the course

• Written material• articles• exercises, platform independent• instructions for the test papers

• CD-ROM for absolute beginners

•Conference system

•Web-site• articles, links• platform dependent • IT manuals

•Administrative tools

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I•C

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Course concept

• Courses are preferably school based

• Introductory day with tutor – the rest is e-learning

• Work in teacher teams

• Duration: minimum 5-6 months

• During the course teams must write 8 examples of instructional design to obtain the ‘License”.

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I•C

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Does it work?

Two extensive independent studies document that

• Dropout rates are less than 10%

• More than 80% find the course relevant or very relevant

• Long term effects have been monitored and rated highly positive

• In three years more than 35,000 educators have participated

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ICT for everybody – the future of Denmark

• increase the usage of ICT in education - customize training to the needs of the individual - realize the potential of every student - focus on learning with ICT, not about ICT – unless you are to be an ICT-professional• train the teachers in integrating ICT into daily teaching

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I•C

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ICT for everybody – the future of Denmark

• reduce the lack of highly-skilled ICT professionals

- increase the number of ICT graduates at university and other higher level

- increase the in-service training of the ICT workforce

- increase the usage of flexible learning methods

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I•C

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The School NetworkConnecting schools to thenetwork

UNI•CMobile and wireless learning

Educational Opportunities

Central Skills and Competencies and exact goals

ITMFSecreta-riat

Danish Mini-stry of Edu-cation

Teachers’ Qualifications

School-IT

School based leisure time facilities-IT

College of Education-IT

ITMFSecreta-riat

"Best practice" andlearning materials for in-service training

ITMFSecreta-riat

Purchasing of television program-mes

DR Learning

Other Television providers

Learn with IT in Folkeskolen

– IT, exact subject goals and the Central Skills and Competencies.– IT and greater amplitude in Folke- skolen.– IT and increased dialogue between the parties of Folkeskolen

Danish Mini-stry of Edu-cation

Distribution of responsibility

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I•C

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Schools in network and municipalities – in collaboration with

researchers, publishers, IT specialists, and other partners.

The municipality model

Who can apply ?

School

School

IT & Media

Research

Publisher

Others

Pedagogy

Expertise:

SchoolSchool

School

School

Municipality

School

School

School

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I•C

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Schools in network and municipalities – in collaboration with

researchers, publishers, IT specialists, and other partners

The schools in network model

Who can apply ?

MunicipalityMunicipality

Municipality Municipality

School

School

School

School

SchoolSchool

School

School

IT & Media

Research

Publisher

Others ..School

SchoolPedagogy

School-network

Expertice: