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ViSuAL project´s final report approved

In August 2021 the ViSuAL (Video-Supported Education Alliance) project team got the news from Brussels that the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) has approved the final report for the ViSuAL project. In the final report assessment, the assessor states that: “Within the project, a significant component and the basis for the experimentations with …

Swiss vocational teachers show interest in video-based collaborative learning

On the 27th of January, Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (SFIVET) professor Alberto Cattaneo, together with colleagues Rachele Conti and Francesca Amenduni, carried out the webinar of the ViSuAL project with 33 Swiss VET teachers. The webinar was the final part of an online course on the use of video to support collaboration …

Video-Supported Collaborative Learning (VSCL) MOOC

ViSuAL MOOC course will give you insight into the use of Video-Supported Collaborative Learning (VSCL), including models, tips and tools to create your own VSCL scenarios. The MOOC is divided into three modules: 1. VSCL – Changing roles of the teachers 2. Video technologies for VSCL 3. Planning a learning scenario This MOOC course is …

Insights and yield from ViSuAL project – video recording

EAPRIL European Association for Practitioner Research on Improving Learning (EAPRIL) is an associated partner organization of the ViSuAL project. Due to the pandemic the annual face to face EAPRIL conference could not be held. EAPRIL Online Event 2020 took place instead on the 25 November 2020. The topic was “Teaching in (Higher) Education in the …

Inspiration workshop in Finland “Developing video pedagogy”

On 17 November 2020 at 9:00 – 12:00 ViSuAL project partners will have a webinar about pedagogical solutions for collaborative learning that utilize video based on the researched done in cooperation with companies as part of the ViSuAL project. More information about this bilingual event (Finnish and English) can be found here: https://www.jamk.fi/fi/Tapahtumat/videopedagogiikkaa/

ViSuAL project in the EAPRIL online event on 25 October 2020

On 25 November 2020 at 13:00 – 15:00 CET there is an EAPRIL online event on “Teaching in (Higher) Education in the COVID-19 era” and the ViSuAL project presents its outcomes in session 6 “”Insights and yield from ViSuAL (The Video Supported Collaborative Learning project): Inspiration for teaching in Covid-19 era”. More information on EAPRIL …

Teacher´s Manual on VSCL now published online!

JAMK University of Applied Sciences has coordinated the publishing of the Teacher´s Manual on Video Supported Collaborative Learning (VSCL). This manual seeks to inspire teacher educators and teachers at all educational levels to use videos to support collaborative learning. It provides a brief theoretical background of VSCL, a description of the pedagogical model as well …

Inspiration workshop in Estonia “ViSuAL project experiences and results”

On 27 October 2020, the ViSuAL team form the University of Tartu held an Inspiration Workshop to introduce the experiences and results of the ViSuAL project. Altogether 30 people, mostly teacher educators and practicum supervisors, attended the half day event. The presenters´ evidence-based and experience-based faith in Video Supported Collaborative Learning was passed on to …

ViSuAL 2nd cycle experiment № 4 ÉVORA and IRIS Connect

ViSuAL experimenter Isabel Fialho introduces an experiment conducted by the University of Évora (Portugal) team. School teachers and student-teachers in initial teacher education courses used IRIS Connect for collaborative learning:

ViSuAL 2nd cycle experiment № 12 SFIVET and iVideo.education

In this video experimenter Rachele from SFIVET (Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training) talks about an experiment with nursing students who used video annotation in iVideo.education: