Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2013 Newsletter
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eLearning Theories about Creativity The Combination of “Six Thinking Hats”,
“Learning by Design” and “Artful Thinking”
Theories
by Xanthie Chouliara (PHD St)and Dr Spiros
Kioulanis
Recently a lot of Greeks educators had the
opportunity to learn how to start implementing
eLearning theories about creativity in their projects
(eTwinning, Comenius, ElOS etc) thus improving
the quality of them. The present article has as
purpose to explore the meaning of creativity of
teachers and issues relating to the development by
participating in online training by using the method
of "six thinking hats".
The logo of “Learning by Six Thinking Hats” project:
The online training
The term qualification by distance refers to an
organically structured set of instruments and
procedures, on the basis of which the trainee,
although situated at a distance from the teacher or
educational institution training, learn how to learn
alone and how to operate self-regulatory
instruments by a heuristic course self learning
(Davis,1992), using specially designed and
developed training materials and having support
from teachers – consultants (Cropley, 2006).
Advantages such as: minimize problems in
personal and family life of trainees, as it does not
require movement and residence elsewhere from
the living and working space, flexibility in the hours
and the training time, and an individualised
counselling lifelong learning depending on the
needs of each Member.
A major disadvantage is that presents large
retirement rates, compared with the average of
traditional face-to-face training (Garrison & Shale,
1987).
Synchronous and asynchronous online
learning (online training)
Synchronous and asynchronous e-learning act
complementarily (Bates, 1995). The Synchronous
e-learning offers the educational process immediacy
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