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AVALON Project

September 8, 2011/in AVALON-Projekt, Bildung, Blog, Forschung, Innovation, LearnGalaxy, Live-Online-Kurse, Live-Online-Training, Nicht kategorisert/von Dr. Ilona Hündgen

AVALON is the an European funded project exploring the potential of Second Life for language learning. Project titel: AVALON – Access to Virtual and Action Learning Live ONline Project number: 143643-LLP1-2008 Program: Lifelong Learning Programme; Transversal Programme: KA3-ICT Reference: 143643.2008-LLP-UK-KA3-KA3MP Project duration: January 2009 – December 2010 (24 months) Requested budget: ca. 600.000 Euro Project […]

LANCELOT Project

September 8, 2011/in Bildung, Blog, LANCELOT-Projekt, LearnGalaxy, Live-Online-Training/von Dr. Ilona Hündgen

LANCELOT is an European funded project with a total of 23 partners from 8 European countries who explored how to use live online rooms for certifying on-site trainers to professional live online trainers. Project titel: LANCELOT – LANguage Learning by CErtified Live Online Teachers Project number: A/05/B/P/LA-158.239 Program: Leonardo da Vinci, Language Competencies II Project duration: […]

AVALON Project

September 8, 2011/in AVALON-Projekt, Bildung, Blog, Forschung, Innovation, LearnGalaxy, Live-Online-Kurse, Live-Online-Training, Nicht kategorisert/von Dr. Ilona Hündgen

LANCELOT Project

September 8, 2011/in Bildung, Blog, LANCELOT-Projekt, LearnGalaxy, Live-Online-Training/von Dr. Ilona Hündgen

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AVALON Project

September 8, 2011/in AVALON-Projekt, Bildung, Blog, Forschung, Innovation, LearnGalaxy, Live-Online-Kurse, Live-Online-Training, Nicht kategorisert/von Dr. Ilona Hündgen

AVALON is the an European funded project exploring the potential of Second Life for language learning.

Project titel: AVALON – Access to Virtual and Action Learning Live ONline
Project number: 143643-LLP1-2008
Program: Lifelong Learning Programme; Transversal Programme: KA3-ICT
Reference: 143643.2008-LLP-UK-KA3-KA3MP
Project duration: January 2009 – December 2010 (24 months)
Requested budget: ca. 600.000 Euro
Project websites: avalonlearning.eu, AVALON project website, avalon-project.ning.com
Twitter: @avalonlearning

Project Overview

Outcomes:
– Advanced training course / curriculum (e.g. for language trainers who are already LANCELOT certified)
– 2D guide (training manual) for trainers wishing to work in 3D worlds
– European certificate for the course graduates (as in LANCELOT validated by ICC Europe). The accreditation partner guarantees that the AVALON certificate is internationally recognized.

Consortium:
In AVALON a consortium of 26 European partners (11 of which were universities) developed a training course for language trainers:

Project Coordinator: University of Manchester (UK), Dr. Gary Motteram

Co-Initiator: Dr. Ilona Hündgen, LearnGalaxy

Project Partners:
ICC International Certificate e.V., Germany
LANCELOT School, Germany (Co-initiator)
Mid Sweden University, Sweden
Molde University, Norway
Talkademy, Austria (Co-initiator)
The British Council, Spain
Universita di Pisa, Italy
University of Vienna, Austria
Verein Grenzenlos, Austria

Associate Partners:
Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom
European Telecoaching Institute, Germany
HUMlab, Umea University, Sweden
IBM Virtual Universe Community
IH World Organisation Ltd
Languagelab.com
Learning Technologies SIG of IATEFL
MONDIALE Testing Systems
myngle.com, Germany
SEED, Stockholm University, Sweden
SKYLIGHT GmbH
Tunnicliff and Kollegen Gbr, Germany
University of Kassel, Germany
University of Siena, Italy
University of Tübingen, Germany
Západočeská univerzita Plzeň, Czech Republic

Publications about LANCELOT and AVALON

Role of Dr. Ilona Hündgen, LearnGalaxy, in the project AVALON

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LearnGalaxy
European Live Online Center
http://www.learngalaxy.de
http://www.learngalaxy.eu
LearnGalaxy Live Online Training Blog
LearnGalaxy on Twitter
LearnGalaxy on YouTube
Skype: learngalaxy
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LANCELOT Project

September 8, 2011/in Bildung, Blog, LANCELOT-Projekt, LearnGalaxy, Live-Online-Training/von Dr. Ilona Hündgen

LANCELOT is an European funded project with a total of 23 partners from 8 European countries who explored how to use live online rooms for certifying on-site trainers to professional live online trainers.

Project titel: LANCELOT – LANguage Learning by CErtified Live Online Teachers
Project number: A/05/B/P/LA-158.239
Program: Leonardo da Vinci, Language Competencies II
Project duration: 2005-2007 (24 months)
Applied budget: ca. 300.000 Euro.

Project idea, writing of all content parts, programmatical parts and partner-related parts of the LANCELOT proposal, key role in coordination of proposal writing, acquisition of most of the project partners (and of all German speaking partners): Dr. Ilona Hündgen, main initiator of the LANCELOT project.

LANCELOT was the very first European educational LIVE online research project. Before LANCELOT only ASYNCHRONOUS elearning was topic of European elearning research funding projects. With LANCELOT Dr. Hündgen originated a complete new branch in the European educational elearning research. LANCELOT was a milestone and showcase in the field of elearning research and business.

As inventor and main initiator of the LANCELOT project is Dr. Hündgen the originator of the European educational live online funding research.

Project Outcomes:

a manual for the live online language teacher, providing guidelines on how to acquire skills necessary to teach languages in virtual classrooms (pedagogy / methodology / technology)
a guide for the teacher trainers who support the language teachers on their way to becoming professional live online language teachers
a European certificate, documenting the qualification acquired in the LANCELOT training course.

Consortium:

Active Project Partners:

Ankara University, Turkish and Foreign Language, Research and Application Centre TÖMER, Turkey
ICC Europe, accreditation partner, Germany
International House, language school, United Kingdom
let’s talk online, language school, Germany (Co-initiator)
The Danmarks University of Education, Media and ICT in a Learning Perspective, Denmark
University of Manchester, School of Education, United Kingdom
University of Vienna, Department of Educational Sciences, Austria (Coordinator, Co-initiator)

Cooperation Partners:

Arrow International, UK
Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Germany
Language Training Center CEBS, Austria
Max Hueber Verlag, Germany
Österreichinstitut, Austria
Samuel Heinicke Fachoberschule, Germany
Vienna International University Courses, Austria
Vocational Training Institute Austria BFI, Austria

Promoting Partners:

Chamber of Commerce of Munich, Germany
Chamber of Trade of Munich and Bavaria, Germany
General Directorate of Foreign Education and Teaching in Turkey, Turkey
Language Competence Center Graz, Austria
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture in Austria, Austria
Austrian Trade Union (ÖGB), Austria
Trade Union for Building, Agriculture and Environment, Germany
WIFI Vocational Education Centre of the Chamber of Commerce in Austria, Austria

Publications about LANCELOT and AVALON

Interview about the genesis of the LANCELOT project

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