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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

AM - Pedagogika a školství

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2015

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název statě ve sborníku

14th European Conference on e-Learning

ISBN

978-191081071-2

ISSN

2048-8637

e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

7

Strana od-do

107-113

Název nakladatele

University of Hertfordshire Hatfield, UK

Místo vydání

Hertfordshire, UK

Místo konání akce

Hertfordshire, UK

Datum konání akce

1. 1. 2015

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

000371972900015