EKT Pilot Report

Report on the pilot testing of the EKT intelligent system for In-School Placement

The EKT pilot is the key activity of the project where universities in five countries (Spain, England, Austria, Ireland and Portugal) will apply the EKT methodology and the e-learning system in the development of the in-school teaching practices of the Student Teachers of the five Faculties / Colleges of Education.

The five university institutions in the EKT consortium participating in the EKT pilot are:

• Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

• Pädagogische Hochschule Wien (Austria)

• Marino Institute of Education (Ireland)

• Universidade do Minho (Portugal)

• University of Plymouth (UK)

Partner universities will embed the EKT methodology and resources into their existing teaching programmes, and will engage all relevant stakeholders i.e. Academic Mentors, School Mentors, University and School Coordinators, and Student Teachers. The pilot testing phase will help provide crucial information about the methodology, platform, resources, and online training and will inform the final design. The advantage of the pilot testing is that it will enable project partners to see what works well for the target audience and which methods and approaches are appropriate.

This pilot testing provided information that will enable decision to be made regarding the final design of the EKT learning platform and online tutorials. This document explains in detail the process of piloting the EKT system in Initial Teacher Education institutions (Universities) in 5 countries (Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Austria and England). It details the processes, phases, participants and activities developed and the main results obtained.