March, 2009 2nd issue

Connect the TEachers to reach and teach the NEt GENeration

LLP-LdV-TOI-2008-HU-016

Welcome
This 24 months long project is a collaboration of 11 CONTENT
partners from five countries. The “transfer of CONNECT THE TEACHERS TO REACH AND TEACH
innovation” will ‘valorize’ the results of two earlier THE NET GENERATION 1
successful LdV projects: SLOOP and NETIS. The WELCOME 1
SLOOP project (Sharing Learning Objects in an
TENEGEN SURVEY 1
Open Perspective) demonstrates key concepts in e-
learning 2.0; NETIS provides the philosophical, TENEGEN’S COURSE DESIGN 2
sociological, and pedagogical basis to support new NEWS 2
paradigms of teaching and learning in the
EVENTS 3
Information Society. The aim of Tenegen project is
to establish an European environment of PROJECT BASICS 3
’connectivism’ for VET teachers and trainers, to
show the significant advantages of being connected
to the n-Gen instead of simply ’delivering’
knowledge through virtual classrooms and Learning This issue were published by:
Management System. Prompt-G Education, Gödöll!, 2009. Hungary
Editor: Mária Hartyányi
Tenegen Team Copyright © Tenegen Consortium
http://tenegen.prompt.hu

Tenegen Survey
… for teachers and trainers has been launched…The questionnaire is
accessible in three languages (in English, in Hungarian and in Turkish). The
time we spent with establishing it was a bit long… The target countries are
Turkey and Hungary what means that we wait to fill out the questionnaire
mainly from these two countries, but teachers from other European countries
would be welcomed to collaborate. In Hungary all of the vocational schools
will take part, so we hope to get a sample covering the whole Hungarian
system of vocational education and partly of the adult education.

The project partners

http://survey.prompt.hu
did their best efforts
to elaborate real professional questions, to get back all the
information we need for the course development. At last,
when the experts believed they managed to establish
absolutely perfect, it was tested by colleagues, who found
again and again sentences which were not quite clear for
them and we worked over it again and again. On the
pictures you see the workshop where we strongly tried to
understand each other! !. The final version contains 50
questions, and takes – on our estimation – for about one
hour to fill in. If you are interested, please visit the site register and give your comments! From the survey
we would like to obtain information about the present situation using ICT, web 2.0 tools in the VET schools –
keeping in eye all possible aspects. The aim of the survey to get figures about the state of the art:
! are the schools equipped with the suitable ICT infrastructure to apply them in the every day work;
! how far are the teachers supported at organizational level;
! how far are the teachers aware of the changes emerged by the new networking technology;
! how far are they know of the networking culture of their students;
! how far are they trained in using these tools for pedagogical aims.
The survey will be carried on during the next month, and the results will be processed at the end of June.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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Tenegen’s Course Design

Frequently claimed by experts, that the main problem with the e-learning developments the lack of detailed designing,
or there will not be all the possible aspects (social, pedagogical, technological, organisational, etc.) integrated. We
agree with this statement. A search for the expression “course design” gives as many as 83 Millions hits in Google.

All the same we are designing learning events/course for traditional classroom or for technology-enhanced learning
(newly mentioned as TEL), the starting point should be to define what we want to achieve, what are the learning
objectives (LOs) and the learning outcomes (OCs). The prerequisite of Tenegen’s development was the Hungarain
online course for VET teachers in tree online modules with the learning objective to develop the Tecahers’ e-learning
competencies, to help them to integrate the ICT tools in their pedagogical practice. In Tenegen project two further
modules will be added to the course to extend the original learning objectives with the conception of network learning
integrating the web 2.0 possibilities, and the conception of “sharing learning objects in an open perspective”. This
extension needed to over think the original three modules too, in order to establish a consistency among the
objectives and outcomes of the original and the new modules. We are almost ready with the profound conception of
Tenegen course – with the Tenegen Pedagogical Model (TPM) of network learning. The most important principle of the
model is: do not teach, but involve the teachers – by integrating as many interactive collaboration tools as possible.

The next step will be the technological design: a unified storyboard for the units, and select the methods and tools for
the content development and the implementation in Moodle.

News
Recently a summary was published on the website of JRC, of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
under the title “Review of Learning 2.0 Practices - The Impact of Web 2.0 Innovations on Education and
Training in Europe“1 (http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC50704.pdf ) –authored by the researchers of IPTS (Institute
for Prospective Technological Studies).

The study summarizes the results of an European workshop, organized in Sevilla, in October, 2008. The topics
discussed in the study have several relations to Tenegen project. The authors collect the viewpoint of the experts of
the workshop about the innovation potential of learning 2.0, the new schooling culture, the next steps to process in
research on the field, and the beliefs on the future of learning. One small quote to facilitate everybody to read th
whole study:

“Complementing traditional educational models with social computing tools is dramatically changing the role of
teachers. They are becoming facilitators of processes of knowledge (co) constructions, in which learners take a far
more active part than they have ever done. Current educational systems may be failing to support their teaching staff
to face this challenge. With respect to the e-learning paradigm, the Web2.0 approach is far less technology centered
and far more learner-centered. This shift of focus carries important changes in the way teaching is understood.
Teachers are seen more and more as “scaffolding”, i.e. as guides who help children/students to learn to perform
(cognitive) activities that they could not master by themselves.”…”The panel suggested that the formal education
world is likely to undergo a process of disruption. It also noted that if E&T institutions are to be part of the
transformation and not just suffer its consequences, they must address a number of challenges and risks.
“. Some of the methods listed to avoid the risks – suggested by the author have special importance regarding
Tenegen’s aims:
! “Not pushing the paradigm as ICT-enabled learning, and learning the lessons of eLearning.
…
! Ensuring that teachers are involved in the process of transformation, that they share the Learning2.0
vision, that they are skilled enough to promote the transformation.
! Elaborating incentives for teachers who adopt, set up and promote innovative initiatives.
…
! Rethinking the notion of learning outcomes and certification in the light of social computing-enabled
practices, to keep the pace with the transformation of society.”

Just these are the efforts Tenegen Team is working on!

1
K Ala-Mutka, M Bacigalupo, S Kluzer, C Pascu, Y Puniet, C Redecker: e-Learning2.0:The Impact of Web2.0
Innovation on Education and Training in Europe, (Report on a validation and policy options workshop organised by
IPTS Seville, 29-30 October 2008), JRC-IPTS, Sevilla, 2009.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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Events
“1st Education-technology Conference” conference was organized by Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology of the
University of Science Lóránd Eötvös in Budapest, on the 30 of January, 2009. The aim of the conference to establish a
discussion platform of experts, teachers - who carry on reseach or developments on the field of education, pedagogy,
psychology, or just working on one of them these fields. The participants were Hungarian teachers, researchers and
professors from the higher education. The main topics of the conference were:
! digital knowledge bases, multimedia
! self-studying, self-reflexing
! tools of developing learning skills
! e-Portfolio
! education in the information society
! digital culture, Net Generation
! online learning environments, LCMS, VLE
! ICT supported learning/teaching in the classroom
! web2.0, eLearning 2.0, "social networking"
Tenegen was represented by two speakers, Árpád Bánhidi (P6-ÖJSZIGK) and Mária Hartyányi (P0-Prompt) on the
event:
Mária hartyányi: Network Learning – case study
Árpád Bánhidai: Virtual Learning Environment in the grammar school József Öveges

Both lecture were published in the conference book. The presentation of Árpád is available on the Tenegen portal
(http://tenegen.prompt.hu/hu/content/virtualis-tanulasi-ter-kialakitasa-oevegesben ).

Project basics
Acronym: TENEGEN
Title: Connect the teachers to reach and teach the Net Generation
Duration: 1.October 2008 – 30. September 2010
Action type: Transfer of Innovation
Programme: Leonardo da Vinci – LLL Subprogramme
Participating countries: Hungary, Italy, Germany, Turkey
Website: http://tenegen.prompt.hu
Contact: Mária Hartyányi, Prompt-G Educational Centre for Informatics, Hungary
E-mail: maria.hartyanyi@prompt.hu, skype: hmaria718

Partnership
PROMPT Prompt-G Educational Centre for Informatics, HU (Co-ordinator)
CNR National Research Council - Institute for Educational Technology, IT
ISERG Information Society Education and Research Group University of
West Hungary, HU
CAPDM CAPDM Ltd,.UK
DEKRA DEKRA Akademie GmbH, DE
BUNI Balýkesir University TR
ÖJSZIGK Öveges József Vocational and Grammar School, HU
NIVE National Institute of Adult and Vocational Education, HU
BJMSZ Bottyán János Vocational Secondary School, HU
KGYGIVSZ Krúdy Gyula Secondary School, HU
SZIGSZ Széchenyi István Secondary Grammar School, HU

Target groups
! teachers and trainers in vocational education,
! trainers in adult education;
! school-leaders (headmasters) in VET schools and the staff of higher education institutes,
! students of vocational schools ;
! university students;
! policy makers;
! European e-learning providers.

Objectives
! elaborate a pedagogical model of network learning and ‘connectivism’;
! develop an online repository of Open Source Learning Objects;
! develop a TENEGEN network learning environment based on open source LMS;
! elaborate and implement five training modules in three languages (HU, EN, TR);
! establish pilot training courses for teachers and trainers;
! validate and verify the results in VET schools;
! disseminate the results all over Europe.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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Work-packages
WP0 Project management
WP1 TENEGEN System Analysis and Design based on pedagogical and
sociological outcomes of NETIS
WP2 TENEGEN Systems Analysis and Design based on the concept of
SLOOP
WP3 Content development, review, translation
WP4 Implementation of TENEGEN networking platform
WP5 E-learning - the school of the future - Pilot course I.
WP6 Pilot course in VET schools
WP7 Evaluation
WP8 Dissemination and valorisation

Planned results
Online further training programme for teachers and trainers in five module in three language (HU, EN, TR),
implementing them in Moodle environment, and piloting the course in three countries (HU, EN, TR) and piloting them
in the target (importer) countries Hungary and Turkey. The Consortium intended to deliver the new paradigm of
network learning to the teachers and trainers in the vocational education, to help them “to reach and teach the Net
Generation”.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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