ICT-enabled In-service Training of Teachers to Address Education for Sustainability Erasmus Project

Project Title

ICT-enabled In-service Training of Teachers to Address Education for Sustainability

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 : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

One of the most visible side-effects of Asia’s rapid growth has been environmental damage. Recent climate-related disasters in the region show that Asian policy makers must act now to protect their citizens and mitigate and reverse the impacts of climate change to secure sustainable growth for the future. A way to confront these challenges is through education for sustainability enabled by ICTs (ICTeEfS). Both ICT and EfS are high on the education reform agenda in the PCs (Indonesia, Malaysia & Vietnam). Yet in practice, the use of ICT for teaching practice and EfS is limited at best. The three PCs are also among the Asian countries, whose teaching force needs training to address the challenges posed by ICTs, and environmental threats. Our needs analysis indicated that ICT teacher training programs in the PCs often focus on the mechanics of ICT use rather than on ways to design curricular applications that would help bring about changes in the teaching and learning process for sustainability. Another area of concern is the lack of induction programs to new-inexperienced teachers after joining schools. The proposed project focuses on education, that is nationally and regionally prioritized in the Asian region. More specifically, it focuses on building teachers’, teacher educators’ and other school leaders’ capacity in innovative teaching, learning and curriculum design by introducing and developing flexible training modalities, problem-posing and problem-based learning pedagogies. ICT-enabled in-service teacher training in advancing EfS will result in filling the current gap between school knowledge and real-life problems. There will be a shift from teacher-centered to student-centered instructional/learning, responding to the PCs educational reform initiatives. Merging ICTs with EfS will enable target groups to see technology as a tool that can empower them to address real-life problems related to environment, society and economy in the PCs and the region.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 991711 Eur

Project Coordinator

FREDERICK UNIVERSITY FU & Country: CY

Project Partners

• GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY
• TRUONG DAI HOC QUOC TE
• UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA
• UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES HO CHI MINH CITY
• PERIFERIAKO KENTRO EMPIROGNOMOSINISSTIN EKPAIDEFSI KAI TI VIOSIMI ANAPTIKSI
• UNITEM SDN. BHD.
• UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA