Aktualności | Gdańsk University of Technology

Location:

Main Building, room 100/2

Contact:

• phone: +48 58 347 27 58
• e-mail: library@pg.edu.pl

Head of office:

Ewa Cypukow
phone: +48 58 347 27 58
e-mail: ewa.cypukow@pg.edu.pl

The last, but not least product created within the project will consist in e-learning course models.

Similarly to the Resources, e-learning course models will revolve around subjects and themes jointly selected by all the partners. E-learning courses created within the E-TECH project will be in English in order to make them accessible for the highest number of potential users, however, it will be possible to translate them into languages of the institutions participating in the project.

In all forms of teaching (stationary, blended or e-learning) resources used during the classes play a very important part.

Recognizing the importance of this element, E-TECH products will include an interactive and multimedia resource bank covering a selected subject (agreed upon by all the members of the consortium).

The resource bank will include: video lectures, animations, simulations, interactive presentations, drawings and schematic drawings.

A textbook entitled "Practical guide on remote teaching methods for academics" will be written within the E-TECH project.

The textbook will be available as a hard-copy book and as an e-book containing numerous multimedia. The important thing is that the publication will have an "open source" character and it will be available in English, Polish, German and Italian.

Dedicated trainings for academics are a very important product of the E-TECH project.

A certified course for academics enititled "Designing an efficient e-learning and remote course" will consists of three levels in blended learning formula:

• beginners' course
• advanced course
• masterclass course

After completing the course, academics will gain skills and abilities allowing them to conduct classes in e-learning or blended form without any problems.

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Ship Technology (formerly Faculty of Mechanical Engineering) belongs to the oldest faculties within the structures of Gdańsk University of Technology. In 2019 Gdańsk University of Technology took second place in the country (highest rank among technical universities) in the competition entitled "Excellence Initiative - Research University" (IDUB).

The main objective of the project consists in equipping academics lecturing at technical universities with the skills allowing them to efficiently conduct and create e-learning courses.

What is more, partners involved in E-TECH project are going to create an interactive resource bank and a model e-learning course for students, covering a subject selected by the members of the consortium.

The direct recipients of the project include academics and lecturers, especially those employed at technical universities. 

Due to the international nature of the projects, the products created within E-TECH activities and work packages will be primarily aimed at academicians associated with the universities involved in the project. However, the members of the project team hope that products created when project tasks are completed will come in handy for academics from other European countries, or even beyond Europe.

The situation of the social distancing imposed top-down forced many academics around the world to suddenly change their teaching methods and to shift from a traditional approach to a blended one or completely remote e-learning approach.

A large number of academics employed by the members of the consortium expressed the lack of the appropriate methodological preparation and resources to conduct the classes this way.