Construction of a European master program on schoolmanagement and schooldevelopment, using Reform education as a starting point. The course was made in blended learning form, giving e-learning a dominant place.
Congres: International management and school development. Colleagues from all Universities in Latvia attended the conference. University of Riga, Latvia.
This project was grounded on reform education, using e-learning aspects and emphasizing mathetics as an important part of a modern learning proces. Enabling teachers from six European countries to act as innovators in their own countries was quite prestigious.
Research was done, to investigate the effects of the program on Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) and general knowledge and attitudes of e-learning, reform-education and mathetics. Significant progress could be seen at some important aspects. (bronkhorst, bakker, 2007)
The location in Bolzano (Italy) was, for many participants, an important factor. Here many aspects of Reform education were tangible available.
One step further are the goals of the VISEUS project. Based on the philosophy and experiences of reform education, and taking in account the latest research on neuropsychology, the project aims at developing a modern learning environment for language education. Theory and research on new literacies are also incorporated in this concept.
By using a digital dictionary (myowndictionary), children actively and cooperative can construct their own vocabulary. Multilinguality is an integrated part of the environment, as well as the use of multimodalities (writing, reading, audio, pictures, movies, games and avatars.
Research is done ofter the effects of the program.