Project outcomes

We have designed, implemented, evaluated and validated a model to develop teacher educator’s PDC. Starting point was a needs analysis among Teacher Educators in the partner institutes. Our target group has primarily been teacher educators (TE), but also pre-service teachers. Development and implementation of the PDC-model has been a co-creative process in involving the two groups of teachers, besides the local project teams.

When implementing the NOTELEB cases, the PDC-model was integrated in TEs' everyday professional practice, through informal work-based learning. Development of the model was based on the TLU’s EDULAB approach (originally a school-based model) to support the development of sustainable and scalable educational innovation in teacher training. 

The cases have been briefly presented in the main video. Four cases, one by each Partner, have been presented in more details in the pdf-file on the left/below.

We have built, piloted, and implemented a NOTELEB Toolkit to appropriate development programs in Making for professionals and  to demonstrate how Making could be made suitable for regular school education, rather than an extracurricular activity. The integration of artistic and creative approaches, as in the Maker education, opens the STEM education a fault tolerant, creative  freedom, hence “STEAM” (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics). The pedagogical-digital toolkit, build on trans-disciplinary collaboration, can offer a first step towards developing Making approaches for teacher educators (TEs). Check out here how it can be used. 

Pedagogical principles in Making, also used in the development of the NOTELEB-toolkit, support the 21st century skills and digital education, such as cooperation, knowledge sharing, creativity and experimentation, with an emphasis on active learning and learning-by-doing, and an opportunity to develop creatively with new technologies. Making also requires a high degree of self-reflection, as projects are always iteratively planned, tested and reflected, and thus, constantly adapted and revised.

The toolkit is available via our website (link here). It can be taken in use in any teacher education, anywhere - or elswhere. The toolkit is available in English with subtitles.

An example video describing the NOTELEB Case study at JYU/Finland on how to interact in virtual reality in teacher education here. All NOTELEB videos are available on Vimeo (link).

These learning materials provide easily accessible and attractive form of support, motivation and inspiration for the target groups for their development of PDC. We produced a main video presenting the PDC Model and short videos, also with interactive elements. The main video will had its premiere in the NOTELEB Final Conference.

These materials are among the first few available to describe a work-based learning approach to development of PDC in exactly teacher education, filling the current void in regards such materials, especially video-based.

The primary language of the contents is English. The video products comply with the universal access regulations, i.e. they are subtitled. Technology-wise these materials are easily accessible via various mobile devices. The 360 videos can be used by VR-classed but also via web browsers or mobile devices.

The NOTELEB Online course will support building of the PDC model. It will provide competence development transnationally, bringing teacher educators into the realm of technology-supported lifelong learning and skills development. Indeed, the PDC challenge and development need has a European-wide dimension within teacher education (TE). The transnational dimension is expected to provide a stimulating and rewarding learning experience and learning outcomes.

The NOTELEB Online course constitutes of four Modules: 

(i) Education in a digital age – opportunities and challenges 

(ii) Digital literacy development for Teacher Educators

(iii) Hybrid Teaching in Higher Education

(iv) Didactic-digital toolkit.

The course will be streamed and made into a web-resource, available also via the NOTELEB website.