Practical Experience from a Pan-European Educational Project

Abstract

The paper provides detailed description of experience from practical use of a newly developed "TechPedia" educational system tailored mainly for professional secondary schools specializing in ICT, electrical engineering and automation. The content for the system has been authored by experts from several European universities. Its purpose is to increase the attractiveness of secondary education and training, so that students’ professional growth can seamlessly continue at technical universities. The project consortium has developed modern electronic learning environment and hundreds of learning objects, such as learning modules, worksheets, tests, multilingual dictionary and encyclopedia that gave the name to the whole project – TechPedia, which is currently in its pilot phase, i.e. practical testing with students and teachers at many schools across Europe. Students can also compare their knowledge thanks to an international "Technical Olympiad". The project results were also awarded the first prize at eLearning 2016 nationwide competition.