The Integrated Teaching Elearning Modules (ITEMs) project has as central objective the development of a framework aimed at driving up standards of teaching and learning in Science and Mathematics. The goal is to enhance students’ achievement and, as a corollary, their interest and engagement with science by improving teachers’ competencies and setting up the conditions for a change in teacher practice towards a more inquiry based model, thanks to the use of ICT.
In order to achieve this the following specific objectives are defined:
- to design and develop online modules (Integrated Teaching Elearning Modules, ITEMs) for secondary school students in Science and Mathematics using a new model of course production based in the packing of Learning Objects in a Moodle format;
- to organise a set of Training Teachers Courses (TTC) aimed at familiarising teachers in the management of the ITEMs in a classroom environment using an on-line/blended approach;
- to establish a joint infrastructure in order to facilitate sustainable accessibility to the ITEMS approach to schools as well as the exchange of scientific information;
- to monitor the dissemination, the impact measurements and the quality assessment of the project within an Open Access environment.
The ITEMS project partnership includes public institutions from four different countries: two teacher training institutions, CEFIRE from Spain and Junior Science Service Support from Ireland, and two high schools, Gimnazija Poljane from Slovenia and Gymnasium Isernhagen from Germany. The project also relies on the cooperation of European Schoolnet.
Contact: Alexa Joyce
http://itemspro.net/
