European Virtual Learning Platform for Electrical and Information Engineering Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Virtual Learning Platform for Electrical and Information Engineering

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Project consortium
4 European countries, 4 technical universities, 1 industrial companies (SME), 4 vocational secondary schools and IT training organizations.

Motivation
The project reacts to the decreased interest in studying at secondary schools providing education in electrical and information engineering, as well as in the related fields. Our motivation is to contribute to higher attractiveness of the study, to foster the students’ interest in the given field and to involve them in the international competition.

Objectives and forms
The main objective is to increase the quality of education at vocational secondary schools using a form that will be highly attractive for students.
This objective has been achieved through preparing a wide portfolio of modern learning aids and offering them in an attractive way as:
• Explanations arranged in the form of an explanatory dictionary (similarly as in Wikipedia, but with guaranteed content);
• Worksheets;
• Short chapters of text;
• Tests;
• Multimedia multilingual translation dictionary.

All these types of content are now available in English, German, Spanish, Czech and Slovak. Thus, the developed materials will be useful also for language education.
The formats of the learning aids include LMS packages (e.g. for Moodle), PDF, as well as formats suitable for e-book readers and mobile devices (smartphones, tablets). All files are now freely downloadable from the learning portal where teachers and their students may choose those materials (or their parts) that are interesting for them (in terms of content or form) and capable of enriching their teaching/learning. In order to increase the attractiveness for the students, a special Facebook account has been maintained during the project.

Pilot testing was a substantial part of the project implementation; it included also students’ international competition – Technical Olympiad; its winners have been awarded attractive prizes and issued certificates.

Learning topics
The project consortium has identified a large number of modern topics, for which, however, there are often not available any learning materials in the considered languages in satisfactory quality. The topics have been selected by secondary school teachers – not only from the consortium, but also from other training institutions:
Wireless networks
Cryptography, cybercriminality
Modern security systems
Cloud computing
Automation
Systems for intelligent buildings and homes
Home automation
Internet of things
User identification
MMI (multimodal interfaces) for interactive communication and navigation
Future Networks – SDN & NFV
New generation of multimedia services/applications
Optical systems and networks
Optoelectronics, photonics and sensors
Modern data interfaces
Modern modulation methods
Use of power lines for transmission of messages (PLC, BPL)
High-speed Internet Access
Modern TV standards
LTE (Long Term Evolution)

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 435954,37 Eur

Project Coordinator

CESKE VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V PRAZE & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• Brandenburgischer IT-Dienstleister
• SLOVENSKA TECHNICKA UNIVERZITA V BRATISLAVE
• Vyssi odborna skola informacnich studii a Stredni skola elektrotechniky, multimedii a informatiky
• KYBERTEC S.R.O.
• UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA
• Stredna odborna skola informacnych technologii
• Institut Esteve Terradas i Illa