Two vocational schools are among the winners of project competition about innovations in education
State Education Development Agency has announced the results of project competition dealing with introducing innovations in education for 2012. In the competition 24 digitalization projects have been approved and will be implemented in practice. Among the winners there are two vocational education establishments – Riga State Technical School (Rīgas Valsts tehnikums) with the project “Development of integrated learning aids in vocational education” and Ogre State Technical School (Ogres Valsts tehnikums) with the project “Interactive way towards culturology”. The projects may be commenced already since 3 September 2012.
This project competition was initiated in July 2012 inviting education establishments, education boards in local governments, associations, foundations and teachers’ associations to submit ideas for elaborating electronic learning aids and for conducting their development.
The aim of this project competition is to promote the use of innovations in education, teachers’ development and acquiring new knowledge in the work with the latest technologies and equipment applicable in learning process. Two priorities were supported in the competition:
- Elaboration of electronic learning aids – product to be used in a certain study subject programme or interdisciplinary and corresponding to the requirements of education content stated in legal regulations;
- Sketches or ideas for the elaboration of electronic learning aids – idea, sketch, draft, description of idea to be developed and integrated into study subject programme in future; as well as corresponds to the requirements of education content stated in legal regulations and is presented in such stage that it would be possible to digitalize in the next phase.
Source: VIAA
3.09.2012
