THE COMPASS OF THE ACCOUNTANT Erasmus Project

Project Title

THE COMPASS OF THE ACCOUNTANT

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The facilities and opportunities the technology has provided have become an indispensable part of daily life. We are living in a period of time in that a life without technology can’t even be imagined. Technology is a driving force in today’s evolving professions and education in every field and has caused serious changes in very different areas of life, mainly in commerce, communication, transportation and banking.

It is unthinkable to assume that education system was not affected, and remained insensitive to these changes and transformations taking part in different levels of society. We can meet the need of an individual for knowledge, increase the efficiency in teaching and learning activities and present teaching and learning alternatives according to individual differences. Thus, learning can be facilitated, enriched and improved by using technology.

From this perspective, all four vocational high schools came together as having the same concerns in finance and accounting field.We all aimed modernizing the already taken route in our education. The coordinator school was Bayrakli Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School from İzmir,Turkey. The stakeholders were Profesionalna gimnaziya po ikonomika “Aleko Konstantinov” from Bulgaria ,Istituto di Istruzione Cesare Beccaria from Italy and 4EPAL KAVALAS from Greece.

We utilized the learning management system MOODLE in our schools (www.ka2compass.com) as an e-learning system composed of many layers to complement the face-to-face education and developed a mobile application called “E-Count Your English” to improve the vocational English level of the students.Our mobile application consists of 1000 vocabulary items including common phrases in Accounting English. It can be uploaded free in any android device.

The project covered two transnational meetings and four learning teaching training mobilities,two for the students and two for the teachers.Teachers had training about the MOODLE system and Web 2.0 tools to use it the lessons whereas the students had training about creating the Wikispaces and had part in testing the mobile application “E-Count your English”.

The project also had a multiplier event in Turkey to publicize the output,moodle.A seminar was held in İzmir about how to facilitate the teaching and learning activities in Vocational Schools using learning management system Moodle and mobile application(s).

The methodology consisted of management, control,innovation, monitoring, evaluation, certification, dissemination activities. During the project the students competence of foreign language,technology usage, positive attitude towards the European projects and European values increased.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 105177,12 Eur

Project Coordinator

BAYRAKLI MESLEKI VE TEKNIK ANADOLU LISESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Profesionalna gimnaziya po ikonomika “Aleko Konstantinov”
• IIS CESARE BECCARIA
• 4 EPAL KAVALAS