ITEM Project

This project aims to produce and disseminate an online IT English Multimedia course to be used by users who wish to learn English in order to increase their chances on the labour market and their efficiency in their professional life. Its other objective is to produce and test an online teacher training course for teacher trainees and practicing teachers to help them on one hand to acquire IT English and on the other hand to give them a tool to learn how to manage online virtual goups of language learners.

Partners:

ISZTI - Coordinator (Hungary), Pont Free Workshop (Hungary), Madeleine (Hungary), EUROINFORM (Bulgaria), Gustav Hrabman School (Czech Republic), The Foundation for European Initiatives (UK) and S.C.INFO Project (Romania ).

Main objectives:

• Improve adult participants' Computer English skills in formal and informal (LLL) education in transnational environment.
• Develop multimedia interactive teaching material for IT-related English.
• Promote opportunities of applicants on the European labour market in every field of computer-related work.
• Set up a virtual transnational consulting centre applying and disseminating an Internet-based, interactive multimedia training package.
• Produce complex online training program for tutors lacking experience in teaching IT English or managing online courses.

Our target groups include training material developers; learners of IT English ; teachers of English; schools interested in teaching IT English; decision makers in education, participants of labour market.

Main activities:

Research based on questionnaires and interviews with HR Managers and IT experts; Developing the content of the training package, the methodology for the database, the technical tool; designing teacher's training course. Creating the evaluation system for improving the materials developed; introducing modifications, preparing products for dissemination.

Outputs:

Needs analysis (study) on the requirements of the labour market; Website; online IT English Training package; Teachers` training course for online course management. test courses, feedback and evaluation from test courses and Finalised training packages for both teachers and students.

For full details of the project please visit

http://www.item-project.hu/