BET K-12 (FNS)
Project owner: Isabella Rega
Project staff: Francesca Fanni, Stefano Tardini
Period: October 2005 to March 2009
Funding agency: SDC + SNF
Website: http://www.betk12.net/
BET K-12 (Brazilian elearning Teacher training in k-12) is a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation under the Joint Research Partnership Program. The project partners are the School of Communication Sciences of the University of Lugano (Switzerland) and the School of Education of the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil).
The project aims at studying the impact of eLearning in Primary School Teacher Training in Brazil, assessing its possible applications and advantages, as well as success conditions and shortcomings.
The project involves three main areas:
- The issue of access to ICTs: this involves technical, economic, sociological and psychological factors influencing persons’ opportunities to use the technologies;
- The issue of quality: the conditions under which it is possible to implement an effective and efficient eLearning program for primary Teachers in disadvantaged Brazilian areas;
- The issue of impact: the readiness of Brazilian primary teachers to use eLearning in their training, and their adoption patterns.
The project is structured in two main phases:
- Phase A aims at mapping different models of teacher training programs involving ICTs in Brazil and at understanding the quality of these programs; this is done in order to seek and suggest innovative eLearning models, which can allow effective and efficient learning practices.
- Phase B focuses on a particular case study: eLearning courses for primary school teacher training offered by CEAP – Centro de Estudos e Assessoria Pedagogica -, an institution placed in Salvador de Bahia and dealing with teachers working in “community schools”, i.e. schools promoted and sustained by poor communities. This phase wants to understand how primary school teachers in a disadvantaged Brazilian area react to their first eLearning experience.
Active on: FNS, ICT4D, SDC, teacher training
