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| Technologically enhanced online oportunities for laguage learning |
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Technology Enhanced Learning
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| Technology can assist and enhance teaching and learning in all educational levels, while helping to prioritize student-centered teaching models. Aiming to support the inclusive teaching modules developed in TOOLS project, one main outcome is the development of a learning environment to host these courses. With the TOOLS online platform, inclusiveness and accessibility are favoured, individualised education is possible, and innovative ICT methods can be integrated. |
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14th October 2021
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Upcoming event
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| Please note the upcoming “Technology-enhanced inclusive EFL teaching” Event for EFL teachers on 14th December 2021 focusing on TOOLS e-learning platform as well as the selected module of “Cultural Diversity”. |
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TOOLS E-learning platform
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The University of Cyprus (UCY) team, is responsible for designing and developing the TOOLS platform. The aim is to implement an interactive e-learning platform for hosting modules and courses, providing access to the material and offering tools for inclusive learning for EFL.
The overall expected outcomes of this project result include promoting ICT as an instrument to favor inclusion, setting up a place to share ideas on inclusion in the EFL classroom, and enhancing the quality of teacher training in social, digital and cultural inclusion.
During the project duration, through this environment, a blended-learning course on inclusive teaching for pre-service and in-service EFL teachers is hosted.
The responsible team (UCY), in collaboration with the rest of the consortium partners, followed a software engineering methodology in order to design and develop the platform.
At the moment, the platform is developed and under pilot testing.
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| SEIT Lab, University of Cyprus |
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With around 7.000 students, 113 laboratories and 830 faculty and staff members, the University of Cyprus (UCY) is a young and rapidly expanding university (established in 1989). There are 7 faculties, 22 departments and 16 research units / centres, covering a broad spectrum within the life, social, natural and engineering sciences.
The Software Engineering and Internet Technologies (SEIT) Laboratory is an integral part of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus. SEIT focuses its research activities on two important areas of Information Technology, namely Software Engineering and Internet Technologies. SEIT has extensive experience in the area of applying ICT to Technology Enhanced Learning.
SEIT was actively involved in the 5th, 6th, 7th Framework and HORIZON 2020. Regarding ERASMUS+, SEIT has recently coordinated five ERASMUS+ projects, currently coordinates two ERASMUS+ projects, and also participates in another 30+ projects. SEIT is also been involved in national projects and other EU funded initiatives, such as AAL.
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| The e-learning platform host and combines 7 different modules: |
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- Introduction
- Cultural and Social Diversity
- Digital Citizenship in Language Education
- Cultural Diversity
- Social Diversity in Education and Accent Bias
- Gender Inequality
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
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The platform is developed in a responsive, modern web design approach that allows pages to render on all devices and screen sizes by automatically adapting to the screen, whether it’s a desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
Another very important aspect, is that accessibility features were included such as changing the color contrast, changing the font size, the option to highlight links or to use dyslexia friendly fonts, and more others, in order to accommodate more users’ needs.
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"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
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Elżbieta Szymańska-Czaplak
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Projet Coordination TOOLS
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| Today is the best day to learn something new! |
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With TOOLS people get the real chance to grow und learn new things from adorable partner.
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| A platform for enhanced education |
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| The idea is to provide a set of tools for pre-service an in-service teachers. The set is meant to provide a variety of digital instruments to enhance their teaching abilities for learners with different individual needs. |
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| ABOUT TOOLS |
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| The Project stems from the belief that foreign languages, English in particular, form a very powerful platform for enhanced education and personal development for learners with different individual needs. |
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| Copyright © 2021 TOOLS. All rights reserved. |
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