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Analysis and work with schools and learning organisations identified a mismatch between ICT tools available for the education market and the needs of teaching and learning. Broadly speaking, ICT provision has failed to make the impact it should on improving teaching and learning across the curriculum and in communities with low or no experience of using ICT. This is because the driving force behind the development of ICT in schools has been technical rather than educational.
In order to help the main share holders in the education system and their to identify possible solutions to this problem, British Council organizes, in the fall of every year begining with 2003, series of conferences/ workshops within the British-Romanian eLiT Education project.
The conference provides a public arena to all the actors who are concerned about promoting a critical and responsible use of ICT in schools and universities aimed at supporting the innovative processes of the Romanian educational system.
The workshops within the eLiT Education Conference give an opportunity to education experts and representatives of the ICT industry in both Romania and the UK education to present achievements, identify potential for transferability, and set up a methodology to disseminate innovations.
The workshops aim at defining the state of the art in using ICT for educational purposes, taking into account relevant developments in Romania and the UK.
The idea behind organizing the meetings of the eLiT Education project consists in creating a community of practice, whose members share different professions, but mutual interests and similar competency patrimonies, in order to start an exchange of ideas and experiences among the involved actors in Romania and the UK. The project will set up set up task groups and a network of partnership among people and organizations which want to contribute with their experience, expertise and know-how on an on going bases in the following areas:
- promoting/piloting best ICT tools for the Romanian educational system
- training of teachers in the use of ITC assisted learning
- alternative learning environments with an important ICT component
- effective use of ITC across the curriculum
- impact of ICT on modernising the existing traditional pedagogical approaches and didactics
Proceedings of the conference would allow representatives of concerned governmental bodies, academics, teachers, experts, opinion leaders, educational software providers, and other categories of practitioners in the ICT field to review the current situation and future trend of the sector, exchange views, present pieces of researches, share good practices, and promote quality digital products and services for education. The conference would offer an opportunity to British developers to showcasing products and approaches and identify their potential for transferability.
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