Informational Technologies for Further Education of Latvian Province Teachers of Informatics

Informatics Education – Supporting Computational Thinking: Third International Conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools - Evolution and Perspectives (ISSEP 2008) 2008
Jurijs Lavendels, Kaspars Krauklis, Vjačeslavs Šitikovs

This is a review of the procedure, technologies and process of further educational courses within the framework of the ESF project “Informational Technologies for Further Education of Latvian Province Teachers of Informat-ics”. The objective of these courses is to clarify the method of teaching of algo-rithmization and basic programming in secondary schools. The technological realization of the courses was based on online e-teaching using costless VoIP Skype network based software. Summarizing results of e-teaching courses im-perfection considerations regarding unsolved problems of virtual communica-tion as a new way of cooperation were made.

Keywords
Distance eLearning
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-69924-8_32

Lavendels, J., Krauklis, K., Šitikovs, V. Informational Technologies for Further Education of Latvian Province Teachers of Informatics. In: Informatics Education – Supporting Computational Thinking: Third International Conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools - Evolution and Perspectives (ISSEP 2008), Poland, Torun, 1-4 July, 2008. Torun: Springer, 2008, pp.349-356. ISBN 978-3-540-69923-1. e-ISBN 978-3-540-69924-8. ISSN 0302-9743. Available from: doi:10.1007/978-3-540-69924-8_32

Publication language
English (en)