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WP5 - Establishing E-Learning Program and Pilot Training

Aims
Start-finish dates and overall duration
Partners included
The total number of staff days
The role and the tasks of each partner involved
Working Methods and Techniques
Expected results
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Aims
Electronic technologies (“e-technologies”) are being rapidly infused into the learning process and infrastructure of professional education as a result of the notable improvements in their computing and communications capability, ease of use, and declining cost.

The principal aim of F4ST e-learning approach is to shift from classical elements of pedagogy to a IT based modern method

Classical Approach	F4ST E-Learning Approach
Teacher Centric	Student Centric
Single Medium	Multimedia
Individual Work	Collaborative Work
Passive Learning	Active Learning
Artificial Context	Real Problems
Didactic Approach	Dialogical Approach
Problem Solving	Problem Formulation
Monological Thinking	Critical Thinking

As the name implies e-learning will be the ultimate tool to ensure transition to the IT based teaching approach. F4ST e-Learning program will allow students to get fully involved- try things out, participate in simulations and tests in an interactive and collaborative environment.

Furthermore learning objects (unit of training) has to have quantifiable outcome or goal- i.e. to teach or test a specific task or tasks. This goal is one that can then be measured using some form of interactivity or quiz to determine whether the student understood and/or absorbed what was learnt.

F4ST program will be operational through an e-Learning system via the internet. e-learning is a powerful tool to disseminate knowledge and train people especially for the people;

Those that may have trouble attending lectures at “traditional” hours because of work or other commitments,
Those that need to acquire professional skills that are in demand,
Those who are seeking a job in food safety area,
Those who could be based across the country or around the world.

Thus, the specific aims of this work package are;

To establish e-learning software
To train participants with the scope of F4ST
To provide an interactive learning platform that receives attraction of all persons, institutions and organizations involved in the food safety area; including food industrialists and processors, regulators, inspectors, local government controllers, etc
To measure the level of understanding by means of tests and quizzes.
To create a classroom environment for debates among different professions and nations
To create a knowledge database that can act as a reference in their current and future professional activities

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Start-finish dates and overall duration

Starts from 2nd to 24th month
Total 22 months

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Partners included
P1, P3, P4, P5, P6, P7, P8, P9, P10, P11

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The total number of staff days
548.5

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The role and the tasks of each partner involved
F4ST E-Learning system will be composed of training modules generated by the partner institutions involved in WP4. That means the training program is a collaborative product.

Designing, building up the e-learning system and administration of the overall system will be the responsibility of P10 (AdV-TR). P10 will write an e-learning software and build-up e-learning system and design it. P10 has the necessary technical experience to manage and control the overall system. Development of the security module, make use of the different databases and testing the system at different stages will be under the responsibility of P10 (AdV-TR).

P6 and P11 will also share their experience in e-learning module with P1 and P10 to design and organize e-learning training.

Partners (P1, P3, P4, P6, P11) will be content provider and provide technical-scientific content for the e-Learning program. They will develop the content of training modules in WP4 (see WP4).

P10 (AdV-TR) will organize the development of electronical training contents in accordance with Scorm 1.2 by using the MS power point presentation, MS word documents and sound records prepared by other partners working under WP4

P10 (AdV-TR) will organize the transmission of electronical training contents by using eduGate LMS and providing the system accessible for 1500 trainees during training sessions

Before the e-learning pilot training session starts, P1, P3, P4, P5, P6, P7, P8, P9, P10, P11 will be responsible to find out trainees. They will ask trainees to fill a form determined by P1(KSML-TR) with the contribution of all partners. Trainees will send these forms to P1. A technical staff from P1(KSML-TR) will be a student administrator and he will work with P10.

P10 (AdV-TR) will organize the solution of technical problems which are derived from P10-AdV in 2 working days and inform the Coordinator

P10 (AdV-TR) will reply the technical questions of the trainees in 2 working days by e-mail in English and Turkish

P1 (KSML-TR) will be responsible for supervision of content and the e-Learning program as a whole

Every partner will contribute questions, idea to the Coordinator to develop and conduct student survey

During pilot training sessions teachers from P1, P3, P4, P6, P11 will answer the trainee’s questions which were collected by P10(e-forum) every week

P1 (KSML-TR) will organize pliot work shops in Turkey and invite trainees and sector representatives

P1 will conduct a student satisfaction survey during training sessions

P8 (GGD-TR) will be responsible to audit the monthly progress in WP

P8 (GGD-TR) will present the reports to the Coordinator and WP Leader

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Working Methods and Techniques
The general features of the anticipated E-Learning system will be:

Easily comprehensible: Readability of the codes will be quite high
Web modularity: A modular structure that will be accessed by different user groups. The group hierarchy will be maintained by securing the access to each module.
Separation of supplying and operating logics: The system will conduct operational functions and the design of user interface separately from the operation logics.

By means of this understanding, a secure structure will be obtained by defining job descriptions and the access levels of:

web manager,
student administrators,
content providers,
content supervisor,
project coordinator,
teachers,
users

Job descriptions and working methods are explained below:

Web Manager: Web manager will be in an Internet application structure that will provide the administration of the web site and provide the web broadcasting of content formers over web browsers.
Development of application process: P10 will be responsible for the coordination of the development of the applications. Algorithmic infrastructure, e-learning software development, hosting procedures, creation of the web platform, student database, knowledge database, etc. Development of the security module: The encryption and the security of the databases and testing the system at different stages will be under the responsibility of P10.
Student administrator (SA): Only SA (P1 KSML-TR) will control and have access to the student database and will be responsible to issue completion certificates.

Content providers: P1, P3, P4, P6, P11 will develop the content in WP4. They will check their monthly progress with the auditing partner. WP leaders will ask for to re-organize their activities relevant feedbacks from the auditing partner P8 (GGD-TR) and if the finished module is satisfactory, module will be transferred to e-learning module.

Supervisor: This is also audit partner P8 (GGD-TR). He will receive content from WP members, review and submit a report to WP5 Leader and the Coordinator
Project coordinator: Project Coordinator will keep track of the updated versions. Upon approval of the final version by the supervisor, he will send the latest version to P10(AdV-TR).
Web manager will enrich the content by using multimedia tools and will integrate it into the e-learning package and will publish it in a temporary web page accessible by content provider, supervisor and project coordinator. Upon approval by those three parties the package will be deployed permanently.
Teachers: They will be responsible for the answering trainee’s questions collected in e-forum in each week during training sessions. Usually content providers can also be teachers.
Users (Trainee): They will enroll the related modules by filling the registration forms. They will participate to the e-exams, debate sessions and complete his program.

Once the e-learning program establishes the pilot training will be started. 500 trainers from Turkey (70 food safety specialists from the Member of Turkish Food Safety Association, 60 official controllers from Ministry of Agriculture, 10 official trainers from Municipalities and the rest from the senior students, unemployed people and from the employees of the target sectors) and 1000 from the partner’s country will be registered. The pilot training will be opened in two sessions. Each session will last four months. At the end of the training a certificate will be given to trainees by the Project Coordinator.

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Expected results

E-learning software
Web based e-Learning program will be created.
500 people will be trained in Turkey including official controllers and food processors by web based e-Learning system.
1000 people will be trained in Partner countries by web based e-learning system.
A Reference Knowledge database will be created.
Instant and continuous monitoring of the results
Effective internal and external monitoring of the results by Supervisors

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