On the 26th of February, the inauguration e-ceremony of the “e-Instructor Certification Programme. Edition #2” (e-ICP) took place. The activity, as a NATO DEEP eAcademy initiative, will run fully online, while the NATO DEEP ADL Portal (LMS ILIAS 7.2) and NATO DEEP VC Portal (BigBlueButton 2.4) will be used as the basic e-learning tools. The participants from fourteen – NATO and Partner countries – are involved: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Iraq, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Ukraine. To compare – in edition #1, the participants from eleven countries took part (more at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOdmGAAt5Jk). Considering the inauguration ceremony, of special importance was the presence of four participants from Ukraine, who had been able to join in and remain connected during the classes of the first subject.
The academic programme of the e-ICP, held from February 2022 to June 2022, consists of the following subjects: (1) Introduction to Advanced Distributed Learning. (2) Methodology of distance learning, (3) Introduction to Learning Management Systems, (4) E-learning specificity: asynchronous teaching, (5) E-learning specificity: synchronous teaching, (6) E-teacher and e-learning team – competencies and tasks, (7) Multimedia creation – podcast, videocast, (8) Innovative technologies in online teaching, (8) Copyright & GDPR. The subjects of the programme will be conducted by the faculty members and SMEs from NATO DEEP eAcademy and other partner institutions.
