WEBBASED TRAINER Competence Profile

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WEB-BASED TRAINER Competence Profile

• TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF
• BRASOV
• Team
• E. Cocorada, M. Neagoe, D. Perniu,
• L. Perniu, St. Ungurean

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Formation (training) and platform

• There is no platform which can train by itself,
• independent of the human factor and the
  pedagogical competence

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The essence of change the theatre metaphor

• The leading actor (the trainer) has the role of
  a scenarist
• The student - role of an actor who has to write
  part of the play he acts in.
• The change of roles modifies the pedagogical
  relation

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Definition

• A competence is a complex ensemble comprising
  abilities, command of procedures, capacity to
  communicate, to monitor ones own resources, and
  conceptual knowledge (Pastre, 2004)
• Competence area Competence Definition
  Description Knowledge

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A complex method of construction

• Combined strategies
• Inductive - extracting convergent
  points from the analysis of similar profiles
• Deductive comparing the polyvalent tasks/
  objectives from adult education present in
  European (and Romanian) programmatic documents
• Anticipatory - repeated brainstorming in
  order to invent and discover possible
  professional situations

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The competence profile of the WBT

• 2 cross-dimensions pedagogical and IT
• (Ianus-bifrons)
• Pedagogical competences the course designer and
  the tutor
• Design
• Production of the web-course
• Design and implementation of assessment
• On-line practice
• Development of ones own career

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The course designer

• 1. IT person knows and uses interaction tools,
  information processing
• 2. Psycho-pedagogue designs, chooses strategies,
  edits, evaluates
• 3. Specialist in a field

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E-Tutoring

• The role of tutor
• Develops and maintains the virtual community, the
  virtual class
• Guides the groups activity towards the
  accomplishment of the educational objectives
• Coordinates the students activities using a
  specific system of roles and procedures

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From the information pedagogy to the practice
pedagogy (Ph. Meirieu, 1990)

• The tutor- guarantees the curriculum policy, he
  is a methodological counselor
• Capacities
• - supports the learning process, at individual
  and group level
• - supports students to establish and achieve
  personal objectives
• The student becomes an actor who writes part of
  the play he acts in.

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The tutor

• An avant-garde scenarist due to the new
  capacities from the IT field.
• Designs and produces multimedia contents
• Uses multimedia equipments and information
  technology in communication
• Designs, accomplishes and evaluates the
  web-course
• Harmonizes the psycho-pedagogical perspective
  and methods with the IT and TIC means
• Provides on-line training, using the Internet
  technology efficiently

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The self-training of the WBT

• The capacity to design and monitor professional
  route
• To identify the personal and professional
  development field
• To monitor the motivation for life-long learning
• To manage time and stress
• To use the feedbacks and suggestions coming from
  students, from tutorial activities or other
  sources for adapting the course
• To have self-evaluations according to the
  criteria of professional deontology
• To have self-evaluations regarding the personal
  and professional development.

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Attitudes

• Reflexive and self-reflexive attitude
• Self-confidence
• Integrating view (weltanschaung)
• Orientation towards new experiences
• Respect for individual rights
• Sympathy for others
• Personal involvement
• Democratic attitude in interactions
• Propensity for cooperation

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Difficulties in producing the competence profile

• The transition from traditional pedagogy to
  e-learning pedagogy
• To imagine concretely and completely a context of
  the conditions in which the WBT works
• To conceive new roles

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Overcoming difficulties

• Knowledge of examples of good practices in the
  European space
• Use of internal and external sources
• Mutual team motivation and mutual control
• Mutual and continuous cooperation and approval
  among partners.

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A new beginning...

• The competence profile- Starting point for
• - the training profile
• - the production of on-line courses

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The competence profile of the WBT

• Answers training necessities in the Romanian
  education system
• Harmoniously interacts with the realities and
  tendencies from other European countries
  participating in the project.