June 2008
Project meeting in Götzis (Austria)
- Final F2F of PILOT 3 and
- Final meeting of the Grundtvig Learning Partnership
- Evaluation of the 3rd pilot course and of the project work
- sustainability of e-tridem.net
April – May 2008
Implementation of the course „PILOT 3“. Participants are language teachers
March 2008
Project meeting in London (Great Britain)
- Final revision of the course setting and the tasks for the teacher training course
- Discussion: possibilities to continue the cooperation of the project group
- Discussion: sustainability concept
February 2008
Training in Second Life for interested partners
- Handling of Second Life
- Fields of application for SL in language teaching
November 2007 – April 2008
- Amendment of the course concept for Pilot 3
- Recruitment of course participants for pilot course 3
November 2007
Project meeting in Chester (Great Britain)
- Planning of the third pilot course, a teacher training course
- Documentation
October 2007
Documentation of the results of the project work
October 2007
Beginning of the third project year
June 2007
Project meeting in Stuttgart, Germany
- Presentation of the evaluation results of the course „Pilot 2“
- Amendments of the tasks and guidelines
- Discussion: sustainability of e-tridem.net
April – June 2007
Analysis of the evaluation data of the second pilot course
March 2007
Project meeting in A Coruña (Spain)
- Final F2F of the second pilot course
- Feedback of the learners
- Evaluation of the pilot course
January – March 2007
- Implementation of the course „PILOT 2“ in 10 groups of 3-4 learners
- Participants of this second pilot course are „real“ learners
- Evaluation: learners’ questionnaires during „pilot2“ after each set of tasks
January 2007
Project meeting in Austria (Götzis)
- Amendment of the course concept for Pilot2
- Adaptation of the course setting
- Matching of the e-tridem-groups for Pilot 2
- Revision of the evaluation questionnaires
October – December 2006
- Enhancements of the course concept for Pilot 2
- Development of further tasks (English, German, Spanish)
- Tutorial accompanying concept: Formulation of guidelines for learners, guide-on-the-side, tutors
- Dissemination activities (local, regional, international)
- Recruitment of learners in all participating partner institutions
September 2006
Project meeting in Great Britain (London)
- Get to know the partner Institute of Education (IOE), University of London
- presentation of evaluation results of Pilot 1
- Planning of the second pilot course for January - March 2007 (learners are "real" learners)
August 2006
- Beginning of the second project year
July 2006
Third project meeting in A Coruña, Spain
- get to know the partner institution Escuela oficial de Idiomas (EOI) A Coruña
- get to know the hosting partner institution and presentation of best-practice examples
- experience exchange
- final F2F meeting of the first pilot course
- analysis of the trial
- evaluation of the pilot course
- adaptation of course concept
- planning of the second trial in January / February (studens are "real" learners)
May to July 2006
Implementation of the course "PILOT 1"
Students of the first pilot course are language trainers (and later e-tridem trainers)
Course structure:
- information hours
- local F2F meeting(s)
- warming-up-phase
- online-phase: first cycle of e-tridem tasks (language 1)
- local mid course F2F
- online phase: second cycle of e-tridem tasks (languages 2 + 3)
- final F2F in the third meeting with all the partners
Evaluation of the pilot course: survey of the learners
January to April 2006
Development of the concept for the tutorial accompanying of the e-tridem groups
- when, how often and where will the F2F-meeting of the blended-learning-course take place?
- what happens at the F2F-meetings? (linguistic and/or intercultural and/or technical knowledge transfer)
- who is supporting the learners? (trainer and other e-tridem-group members, native speakers) and levels of support
- discussion on freedom versus guidelines in a self-accessed-learning-provision
January to April 2006
Development of the pilot course, first to be tested by teachers who will be trainers in the second year, when the course is tested with learners
- choice of teachers in each organisation for the pilot course (2 pilot e-tridems)
- developing the first set of tasks/topics for the pilot e-tridems
- Exchange via the protected communication area about the developed tasks in the single countries
- Clarifying institutional pre-condition set-up of a framework for the planned course
- Revision and adjustments of existing framework (developed during 2nd meeting) for the pilot course
- Detailed course schedule / timetabl e
January to March 2006
January 2006
Second meeting in Götzis, Austria
- State of affairs in project process
- Get to know the hosting partner institution and presentation of best-practice examples
- Participation of the probable new partner University of London, Institute of Education
- Communication and learning platform: discussion on the needed functionalities
- Brush-up and deepen Moodle-knowledge
- Development of a pilot course:
- planning of the tasks/topics for the e-tridems course and scheduling course
- clarifying institutional pre-conditions for the implementation of the pilot course
- tutorial accompanying concept for the e-tridem-groups (F2F meetings / support)
- Evaluation concept
September 2005 to January 2006
- Evaluation concept
October 2005 to January 2006
- Review of the necessary technical requirements for the “e-tridem communication and learning platform”
October to December 2005
- Design of the logo and text suggestions for the first flyer discussed online
- Flyer layout and print in small editions
September 2005
Kick-off-meeting in Ludwigsburg and Stuttgart, Germany
- get to know the partner organisations
- get to know the hosting partner institution and presentation of best-practice examples
- detailed definition of common objectives
- common project planning (milestones and fixing responsibilities)
- the look of the platform and its functions
August 2005
- Implementation of the communication platform with a password protected communication area for all partners with access to chat, forum and all the tools the open source platform Moodle offers
- Start of the project: 1st August 2005
