Professional Development of Academic Workers: Creating New Open Course to Enhance English Language Competence of Academic Workers

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Professional Development of Academic Workers: Creating New Open Course to Enhance English Language Competence of Academic Workers

Original language description

New developments and trends in information and communication technology, higher requirements of employers and competition at the labour market emphasize the imperative for institutions to be learning organisations and developing their staff by providing opportunities for continuing professional development at the workplace. A great way to retain staff and nurture employees’ skills is to promote consistently and actively professional development as well as further education, both formal and non-formal. Encouraging professional growth shows the team that managers support their progress and it might inspire employees’ loyalty. Professional development of university teachers is vitally important as they are responsible for creating appropriate environment in which teachers and students benefit from their knowledge and skills. Demands on academic workers are constantly growing as they must be not only good teachers, but also professionals with effective communication skills, both in the mother tongue and foreign languages. The learning process at universities becomes more complex and communication in foreign languages together with digital literacy belong to key competences contributing to personal fulfilment of academic workers. In academic education, there has been a wide interest in using information and communication technologies for educational purposes. The contribution is focused on the process of designing open courses for teaching English based on the academic workers needs analysis, courses description, as well as on teachers and users experience. The teachers of English at the University of Defence Language Centre prepared three different open courses to enhance communication and academic skills in English. Blended learning strategies are implemented in the courses. The face to face courses are supplemented with interactive study supports, presentations, electronic tests, and other materials in the Learning Management System Moodle.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

AM - Pedagogy and education

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

14th European Conference on e-Learning

ISBN

978-191081071-2

ISSN

2048-8637

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

107-113

Publisher name

University of Hertfordshire Hatfield, UK

Place of publication

Hertfordshire, UK

Event location

Hertfordshire, UK

Event date

Jan 1, 2015

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000371972900015