EVALUATION OF THE PROGRESS REPORT HAKAN ÖZTÜRK Kutahya Vocational High School Banska Bystrica, September 2012

Preparation of the Progress Report : The report was written according to the project activities, meetings and workpages. Application : Our project application was submitted with 5 partners in total; 1 national and 3 European Partners. However, Romanian National Agency did not except the Romanian Partner’s application so the Project started with 1 national (Kocaeli MEB) and 2 European Partners (ZWH and Anime s.r.o). Project kick-off meeting : The project kick-off meeting was held in Kocaeli between 28th to 30th of September Our German partner ZWH could not participate because of private reasons. But, they participated to the meeting via msn and . The kick-off meeting started with the speech of the Director of Kocaeli Local Education Directorate and continued with the presentations of the partners’ institutions. Information about our project activities, outputs and results were introduced by the coordinator. Kocaeli University Distance Learning Center was visited where the partners were informed about the center for its activities and experiences of e-learning. At this meeting, it was also discussed about the Transfer of Innovation Project which will be made at the end of the Project. The partners decided to prapare a Project in the frame of improving e-learning experiences of VET teachers. All partners will make a detailed search to transfer a project and the final decision will be made at the 3rd meeting in Slovakia. 2

Also at this meeting the workpackages were discussed and decided as; Workpackage 1- Create a team Workpackage 2- State of the art Workpackage 3- Evaluation activities Workpackage 4- Dissemination activities Workpackage 5- Information meetings Workpackage 6- Conference with international participation Workpage 2 State of Art : A questionnaire was prepared by the coordinator which consists on 27 proposals. It was carried out for 302 teachers and administrators in Turkey, 69 in Slovakia and 100 in Germany. The goal of this research was to find the existing situation in partners’ countries in term of e-learning. The applied questionnaires were assessed by using SPSS programme and a academical evaluation report was written. E-learning opportunities and e-learning practices in partners’ countries were searched. The results were presented at the 2nd meeting in Düsseldorf and the evaluation report of the questionnaire also takes place at our project web page ( 3

‘ Düsseldorf (Germany) 2nd Project Meeting : The second Project meeting was held in Düsseldorf/Germany from 28th May to 1st June E-learning opportunities and e-learning applications in partners’ countries have been shown. Presentations about e-learning strategies, pedagogical approach, how teachers, trainers, staffs and learners were motivated to use e-learning and the creation of e-learning environments were introduced to the participants. Dissemination activities and evaluation of the questionnaire were presented by the responsible partners. Düsseldorf Chamber of Handicrafts (HWK) which gives blended education was visited and best practices were shown. A presentation about web 2.0 tools was presented and the future of e-learning was discussed. Also examples of e-learning portals and implications of e-learning was introduced by ZWH. At end of the meeting we discussed how to prepare TOI project which is parallel to our aware project. Each partner should arrange to transfer a project for the next meeting in Slovakia. Workpage 4 Dissimination Activities : The goal of this workpage is to increase the efficiency of our project in different environments; After signing the agreements; the activities have started and the project was announced in different local newspapers and media. An information meeting was made to Kütahya Local Education Directorate and its managers. Project web site was designed by our German partner ZWH ( and it was also linked to ourwww.e-aware.eu school web site ( Roll ups were prepared to be used at project information meetings in Kutahya. Posters, promotional products and leaflets were prepared by our Slovakian partner and were presented at the 2nd meeting in Düsseldorf. From September 2012, they will be printed and distributed. 4

Workpage 5 Information meetings : The goal of this workpage is to increase the awareness of teachers and administrators in Vet about e-learning, changing their attitudes in a positive way and informing about existing e-learning environments. A presentation of the project activities was prepared by our school Project team and was presented to 48 teachers and administrators. The information meetings for teachers and administrators will be also carried out in September and October We will distribute leaflets, promotion products and posters to the participants at this meetings to focus their interest to our project and e-learning. Also a short flashvideo will be prepared for these meetings by our Slovakian partner which shows the advantages of e-learning. Conclusions and Recommendations : One of the most important outcomes of the Aware Project is to prepare a Transfer of Innovation project by the benefits of its outputs. Each partner should have searched a Project to transfer which is parallel to our project. We also give great importance to the conference which will be held on June 2013 Kutahya/Turkey. It will be announced in local and national media and high-level participation will take part at this international conference. We hope that we can achieve this goal with our project partners. 5

Thanks for your attention! Hakan ÖZTÜRK Kutahya Vocational High School Banska Bystrica, September