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Development of Teacher Competencies in a New Learning Environment in Higher Education

Authors:
György Molnár

Keywords: Keywords- Competence; e-learning support systems; Moodle system; teacher training

Abstract:
The development described in the paper aims to form a service-oriented teaching-learning model supporting the modernization of education, which can be the pillar of a gradually established university specific Competence Centre. The goal of the programmes of the Competence Centre conceived last year and being developed is to ensure that university lecturers and teachers, as well as research workers can fulfil the demands of an extending international/European higher education learning environment. The competence development necessary for 21st century university lecturers focuses on such key areas as Lifelong Learning approach and Information and Communications Technology literacy. The authors present the practical realization of the above mentioned development at Budapest University of Technology and Economics following the emergence of a concrete demand. Specifically, the service-oriented organizational and operational frameworks of teaching-learning were established in a way that allows the actual use per organizational unit or respectively person, the success of the participants as well as the satisfaction of those initiating the training to be determined. The main conlusion is that the results of the e-learning-based training programs developed within the framework of the research are a good pedagogical indicator of the transformation process when the further training of teachers in an institution of higher education of significant traditions, an „up-to-date training of trainers” is being developed, and based on the experiences the process is getting institutionalized. The concrete use of the research is the development of the trainers’ professional competencies, attitude formation and efficient knowledge transfer. The innovation frameworks necessary for the development of the lecturers’ competences were provided by the learning and development environments of the Institute of Applied Pedagogy and Psychology as well as the e-learning material developers of the co-department.

Pages: 95 to 99

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: June 24, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4529

ISBN: 978-1-61208-202-8

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 24, 2012 to June 29, 2012