Obelfa

We have got the chance to present our activities (and our institutions) in the European Parliament Magazine:

Each European Project needs to be evaluated by partners, internal and external evaluators. So OBELFA. As we wrote our application we asked checkpoint e-learning and they agreed.
It tooks one and a half year until checkpoint e-learning has got the first request from the coordinator to sign a contract for the external evaluation!
And that happened afterwards:
E-Mail-Schriftwechsel

Have a look at the ideas we for structuring the blended learning cook book.
Inbetween we have further discussion in our internal forum at the project website.
But it is still the same: important questions like format, content are not clear at the moment.

The third project meeting is over, I am just sitting in my hotel room and want to let you know what's happen there. Yesterday we ended with a very controversial discussion about the format for our blended learning cook book. It's promised as an outcome of this project and I still believe that could be a great opportunity to show our experienced based competencies. To find a solution we build a work group which should create a common structure for that book. What I know at the end of this day is that we probably going for a very complexe and detailed book about blended learning, case studies included. The result and the way of it's development is exemplary for the cooperation and communication in this project. It's not that we didn't work hard and try to discuss all the questions which came up during the project. There are big differences in the way of communication, contribution and acceptance. Maybe it's a cultural difference, maybe it's a gender issue. It's probably the summary of both. We often missed the willingness of our coordinating institution to find a common sense to sort out obscurities, to discuss different ideas. The official part of the meeting ended this morning but the group was left back with a lot of unanswered questions:

We just had an intensiv discussion about the structure and the format of our belnded learning cookbook. Very different cultural approaches came together and to be honest, I do not really know at the moment what we decided to do. There are two differeent camps: one want to write a real cookbook, online, with linked phrases. The other one want to write an academical book about blended learning.
Let's see, where we will end...

The first day of the meeting is over. We had very strong and controversial discussions about different approaches for blended learning caused from our different backgrounds and target groups. All partners, except the Turkish, try hard to reach their target groups (disadvantaged learners with social or other marginalisation, unemployed people, migrants), motivate and enable them to learn by using different e-learning tools. The situation in Turkey seems to be complete different. They have long waiting lists for course applications.
All because of a deep conciuos by applicants to increase their chances to get a job by finishing some courses which are certified by the college.

Right now the meeting starts here in Aveiro (it's 9.45 a.m.) and every partner present itself.
After we have to talk about the work we have done so far in our association. I had no time to prepare the usual powerpoint presentation but a made a short table which gives an overview about our results. The "rest" I will explain

Work so far