Project M-Learn – Training Teachers to use mobile (hand held) technologies within mainstream school education has published the second scheduled research paper. The project, part of the Comenius Lifelong Learning Programme, involves six partners in four countries: England, Greece, Italy and the Netherlands.
Notwithstanding good skills in the use of new technology, the new tools are still neither widely used in class, nor do they influence didactics. Not even the students are capable of using the new resources to study.
The research paper on Training Needs Analysis to Support Mobile Learning and Information and Communication Technology - Teacher Training in Mlearn Partner Countries was developed by the University of Lancaster – Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning – Department of Educational Research in collaboration with the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and other partners to monitor the needs of teachers. The research will serve as a stepping-stone to develop a training curriculum and the course programme that will be held in Birmingham in July.
The paper indicates that in general the four involved countries have a good experience in the use of technology (PCs, laptops, multimedia boards for didactics) and then turns to analyse the introduction of technology into schools.
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