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AVATAR: a virtual world for learning
2013-1-IT1-LEO05-04064
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AVATAR: a virtual world for learning (2013-1-IT1-LEO05-04064)
Project Information
Title: AVATAR: a virtual world for learning
Project Number: 2013-1-IT1-LEO05-04064
Year: 2013
Project Type: Transfer of Innovation
Status: running
Country: IT-Italy
Marketing Text: WHAT IS AVATAR? To promote, improve, assist and support teaching and learning activities
of cultural and technical fields subjects through the virtual worlds.
Summary: This project plans a sectorial transfer because it adapts and applies a learning environment in
vocational education (IFP) and vocational training (IeFP) fields, created for secondary
school’s teachers and students. The aim of this experimentation is to improve, assist and
support teaching and learning activities through using innovative tools and methodologies
made available by virtual worlds. Within the experimentation the project wants to promote
integration among the worlds of vocational education, vocational training and labour market.
Actually the debate is open on didactic methodologies more functional for learning, new ways
teaching and making school. Otherwise concreteness, imagination and game are the bases of
an environment that promotes learning. The interesting aspect for teachers is the possibility to
build knowledge through a close interchange with students, and it’s exactly this “building”
which fascinates students, giving a new and different motivation to learning. This way, the
relationship between teachers and learners changes, therefore it becomes necessary to relate
in a synergic and equal way to “build together” a project thinking on how knowledge to acquire
“is seen”, on “what” it needs to be built to simplify knowledge and “how” to realise a plan of
different buildings.
So, to make all this real it’s necessary to reach the following main aims:
• to implement and support teaching and learning activities through using tools made available
by virtual worlds;
• to increase computer and methodological trainers competencies for an efficient application
of innovative methods, as the virtual reality;
• to promote, through virtual worlds, learning of cultural and technical fields’ subjects;
• to transfer tools and methodologies experimented until this moment to the different partners
involved.
The project, promoted by the Lepido Rocco Association, plans the engagement of the Treviso
Province, the inter-university Consortium FOR.COM, the FH J. University of Graz (A), the
Anniesland college of Glasgow (UK), the WISAMAR Educational Institute Leipzig (DE), the
Avclar Saide Zorlu TML School of Istanbul (TR), the School Office of Palermo and the Veneto
Region’s Directorate of Labour.
The project provides the engagement of 30 teachers/trainers of vocational institutes and
training centres and 120 learners belonging to catering, construction and administration
fields(IT, UK, DE, TR).
Description: Students that attend the vocational education and training paths show learning difficulties that
refer to environmental, relational and emotional causes. It can be linked to particular family
situations, wrong teaching method and deep cultural factors. During the school years these
difficulties appear with a more evident complexity in facing cultural and scientific subjects or,
better said, the subjects for which students are asked to carry out abstraction and logic
activities. To support and facilitate these students it’s important that teachers and trainers
have at their disposal tools that facilitate, among the students, the learning in cultural and
scientific subjects.
With the aim to improve, assist and support teaching and learning activities through using
innovative tools and methodologies, the Leonardo da Vinci TOI project “AVATAR” - AVATAR:
un mondo virtuale per l’apprendimento – aims at providing teachers and trainers of 4
European nations (UK, IT, DE and TR) with knowledge and tools necessary to define and
carry out training activities through the virtual worlds, adapting and transferring the learning
areas e-Learning and Virtual Learning (Vhttp://www.adam-europe.eu/adam/project/view.htm?prj=11422
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Project Information
Learning), the instruments and didactic contents created in the previous project Comenius
AVATAR.
By doing that, the knowledge that may seem more abstracted to students, can have
immediate applicability and can become more respondent to the students’ learning of
vocational schools and more relevant for their work.
Themes: *** Quality
*** ICT
*** Continuous training
*** Initial training
Sectors: *** Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities
*** Education
* Administrative and Support Service Activities
* Construction
* Accommodation and Food Service Activities
Product Types: modules
program or curricula
others
website
teaching material
Product information:
Projecthomepage: www.avatar-learning.com
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AVATAR: a virtual world for learning (2013-1-IT1-LEO05-04064)
Project Contractor
Name:
City:
Country/Region:
Country:
Organization Type:
Homepage:
ASSOCIAZIONE LEPIDO ROCCO
MOTTA DI LIVENZA (TV)
Veneto
IT-Italy
initial training
http://www.lepidorocco.com
Contact Person
Name:
VALTER GIACOMINI
Address:
VIA LEPIDO ROCCO, 6
City:
Country:
MOTTA DI LIVENZA
IT-Italy
Telephone:
+39 0422 867511
Fax:
E-mail:
Homepage:
[email protected]
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Coordinator
Name:
City:
Country/Region:
Country:
Organization Type:
Homepage:
ASSOCIAZIONE LEPIDO ROCCO
MOTTA DI LIVENZA (TV)
Veneto
IT-Italy
initial training
http://www.lepidorocco.com
Contact Person
Name:
VALTER GIACOMINI
Address:
VIA LEPIDO ROCCO, 6
City:
Country:
MOTTA DI LIVENZA
IT-Italy
Telephone:
+39 0422 867511
Fax:
E-mail:
Homepage:
[email protected]
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AVATAR: a virtual world for learning (2013-1-IT1-LEO05-04064)
Partner
Partner 1
Name:
City:
Country/Region:
Country:
Organization Type:
Homepage:
UFFICIO SCOLASTICO REGIONALE PER LA SICILIA
PALERMO
Sicilia
IT-Italy
public institution
http://www.sicilia.istruzione.it
Partner 2
Name:
City:
Country/Region:
Country:
Organization Type:
Homepage:
FH JOANNEUM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
GRAZ
Styria
AT-Austria
university/Fachhochschule/academy
http://www.fh-joanneum.at
Partner 3
Name:
City:
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Organization Type:
Homepage:
PROVINCIA DI TREVISO - CENTRO DI FORMAZIONE PROFESSIONALE
TREVISO
Veneto
IT-Italy
public institution
http://www.provincia.treviso.it
Partner 4
Name:
City:
Country/Region:
Country:
Organization Type:
Homepage:
REGIONE DEL VENETO - DIREZIONE LAVORO
VENEZIA
Veneto
IT-Italy
public institution
http://www.regione.veneto.it
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Partner
Partner 5
Name:
SADE ZORLU TCARET MESLEK LSES
City:
Country/Region:
ISTANBUL
Istanbul
Country:
TR-Turkey
Organization Type:
Homepage:
initial training
http://www.saidezorlu.meb.k12.tr
Partner 6
Name:
CONSORZIO FOR.COM. FORMAZIONE PER LA COMUNICAZIONECONSORZIO
INTERUNIVERSITARIO
City:
Country/Region:
ROMA
Lazio
Country:
IT-Italy
Organization Type:
Homepage:
university/Fachhochschule/academy
http://www.forcom.it
Partner 7
Name:
City:
Country/Region:
Country:
Organization Type:
I.P.S.S.A.R. "PAOLO BORSELLINO"
Palermo
Sicilia
IT-Italy
initial training
Homepage:
Partner 8
Name:
City:
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Organization Type:
Homepage:
GLASGOW CLYDE COLLEGE
GLASGOW
Scotland
UK-United Kingdom
initial training
http://www.glasgowclyde.ac.uk
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Partner
Partner 9
Name:
City:
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Organization Type:
Homepage:
WISAMAR BILDUNGSGESELLSCHAFT GEMEINNÜTZIGE GMBH
LEIPZIG
Sachsen
DE-Germany
continuing training institution
http://www.wisamar.de
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Events
PRESENTATION OF THE TRAINING COURSE TO TEACHERS/TRAINERS
Date
Description
24.06.2014
This meeting was organized to give an overview about the use of virtual worlds for teaching
and learning (especially Second Life) and presenting officially the training course that will start
on September 2014. Ms R. Tegon, who took part in the previous Avatar Grundtvig project and
who will be the Italian moderator of this new project training course, was the speaker.
Target audience Teachers and trainers involved in the experimentation of the AVATAR tool from the Province
of Treviso and the Lepido Rocco Association.
Public
Closed event
Contact Information
Time and place
24th June 2014, Treviso (Italy)
SECOND TRANSNATIONAL MEETING
Date
Description
04.06.2014
During the 2nd meeting, the results of the national researches were presented, as also the
new training course curriculum for teachers/trainers that will carry out the experimentation of
the tool with students.
Target audience The representatives of each project partner, with the participation of the expert in Virtual
Worlds, Mr Marunchak, and some teachers involved in the experimentation.
Public
Closed event
Contact Information
Time and place
04th and 05th June 2014, Glasgow (Scotland).
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Events
KICK OFF MEETING
Date
Description
25.11.2013
During the 1st transnational meeting the Lepido Rocco staff, with the cooperation of the
FOR.COM. staff, presented aims and objectives of the project, exposing the work plan (WPs,
partners' tasks, deadlines) and the financial, monitoring and dissemination aspects.
Target audience The representatives of each partner.
Public
Closed event
Contact Information
Time and place
25th and 26th November 2013, Rome (Italy).
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