Author - Dénes Zarka, Director of Centre for Learning Innovation and Adult Learning – Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME).The presentation will describe the method of VOCAL project to train and encourage HE and VET teachers to re-develop traditional educational content to high quality collaboratinve ditigal material in intercultural environment.

1. Professional Development in Digital
Age
The VOCAL solution to change the learning and teaching
practices in intercultural, online and active learning age
By Dénes Zarka BME
Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom Kaunas 9-10 Nov 2017.
KA2 Strategic Partnerships – 2016-1-HU01-KA202-022916

2. Who am I?
• Electrical Engineer, 52
• Graduated in ’89 from BME
• From ’92: Instructional designer (UK-trained)
• Till ’98: at Budapest Training Technology
Center
• From ’98: BME Learing Innovation Center
• Field:
Course development content development,
educational research, training of designers
and tutors (TEL)
• Live in Hungary – Budapest
• Speak Hungarian, English, and French (some
Russian)

3. VOCAL = Vocational Online
Collaboration for Actve Learning
Objectives
1. To develop training material for T&T on:
a) Digitalization of quality learning resources
b) Designing online collaborative learning activities
embedding digital, social and intercultural competence
development
c) Tutoring international, intercultural and diverse learner
groups
2. To train teachers and trainers during short-term mobility
visits
3. To (re)design 6 quality and open curricula at each
partner.
4. To develop ICT portal for training material development

4. Training materials
• Digitalization of quality learning resources
1. Digtal content organisation
2. Converting manuscripts to HTML format
3. On-line test development
• Designing collaborative learning activities
1. Closing the gap between cultures
2. Embedding culture into active learning
3. Online workshop as an active way to collaborate
• Tutoring international, intercultural diverse learner groups
1. Teaching skills
2. Communication
3. Technical skills
4. Intercultural competence
5. Commitment

5. www.vocalerasmus.eu

6. Learning portal

7. C1 – C2. Short - term joint staff training events
• May 2017. Kaunas • September 2017.
Heilbronn
KA2 Strategic Partnerships – 2016-1-HU01-KA202-022916

8. 6 Courses
• Digital Pedagogy – BME
• Students’ readiness – DHWB
• The collaboration toolkit – UDeusto
• Digital assessment – VMU
• Contemporary education – LieDM
• Audio-visual materials - OT