CAT: Computer Aided Teaching and Learning Materials in Science Teaching

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The CAT (Computer Aided Teaching) project has been developing a teacher-training course on using computer aided teaching and learning materials in science teaching at schools. Three course modules are now on offer.

The aim of the project was to design and test modules for a teacher-training course, which will help teachers to:

•    assess the quality of computer aided learning environments in science teaching;
•    adapt best-practice examples of those environments to their own teaching;
•    evaluate their own teaching.

The course is now on offer and has established itself as ICT-based content; it is supplemented by a teachers' handbook and CAT examples of best practices in computer aided science learning. The first CAT modules were offered in 2011; another round of CAT courses is offered for spring 2013.

The CAT course offers three different modules (and sub-modules); teachers can choose from these modules according to their individual needs. Each of the modules is organized in the form of blended learning, consisting of online sessions and a face to face meeting in one European country. The duration of each module ranges from three to five months.

The CAT examples contain detailed description and evaluation of software and online platforms from the perspective of STEM education. The examples have been primarily developed as supporting materials for the CAT courses. However, they can also be used by teachers as a stand-alone guide to different methods of computer aided learning of science subjects.

 

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