This presentation gives you the basic information about PAOK Network (May 2012 - April 2014). It is a EU-funded project combining ICT and upper secondary education at Tampere Region in Finland. My previous SlideShare presentation with almost the same title tells about PAOK during 2009-2012.

1. Pedagogy in the Key Role!
PAOK – ICT Network for the Tampere Region
Upper Secondary Education, Finland
March 2014
Matleena Laakso
PAOK Network
Blog: www.matleenalaakso.fi
Twitter: @matleenalaakso
Slides: www.slideshare.net/MatleenaLaakso
paokhanke.ning.com
#paokhanke
www.facebook.com/PAOKverkosto
You may use photos only within this presentation.

2. ”There are many visions about the future school.
In all of them is a strong emphasis on ICT to enable new ways of
working, to develop sense of community and
to make everyday lide easier.”
(ed. Kankaanranta 2011)
PICTURE: Alexandre Duret-Lutz, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

3. PAOK – Background and Finance
• PAOK is a development programme for general and
vocational upper secondary education of Tampere region
• Background: regional ICT-strategy
• Coordinated by City of Tampere
• Financed by EU, Centre for Economic Development,
Transport and the Environment
and the schools (42)
– 2009-4/2011: 882000 euro
– 5/2011-2013: 603 000 euro
PICTURE: Matleena Laakso; CC BY

4. Educational
structure
Finnish National
Board of Education
www.oph.fi/english/education
PAOK Network works
with teachers and
management
of upper secondary
education

5. Goals of PAOK
• To promote systematic implementation of ICT in
education and educational institutions
• To develop open interaction
between teachers and between
educational institutions
• To create and to develop studentcentered, open and collaborative
learning environment and culture
for BETTER LEARNING
PICTURE; Matleena Laakso, CC BY

6. Services of PAOK
ICT STRATEGY WORK
• Updating regional ICT Strategy
• Supporting the schools and
towns to create/update their
own strategies
NETWORKS OF TEACHERS
• Thematic teams
• Support from colleagues
• Developers of eLearning
Courses
COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT
• Education and consultation
• Open learning culture seminars
• Awards for Open learning culture
PERMANENT NETWORK
• PAOK: from project to
permanent network
• Online course enrollment system
PICTURE: © Matleena Laakso

7. Online Course Enrollment System
• 140 online courses yearly
• 1000 student enrollments yearly
• Enables and supports cross-institutional online studying
– also between general and
vocational upper sedondary
education
• PAOK
– maintains & develops
the system
– supports and encourages
teachers to use it and to create
good quality online courses

8. Award Winners for open
learning culture 2009-2013
Picture above ©Teemu Launis
Other pictures © PAOK

9. Support from colleagues
• The best practice of PAOK
• PAOK is financing and supporting this
peer support activity
– Six groups with 80 teachers
– Teachers helping their colleagues to use ICT
in education
• The network of peers meets regulary
– Face-to-face
– Adobe Connect
Pictures above © PAOK

10. PAOK’s Main Tools
in Social Media
• Ning paokhanke.ning.com/english
• www.facebook.com/PAOKverkosto
• Twitter: #paokhanke
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Online course enrollment system
SlideShare
Wikis
Blogs
Google (calender, Drive, alerts,..)
Adobe Connect
Moodle
YouTube, TecherTube
etc.