Throughout the course teachers will be handled in three different modes:

a) as learners participating in real world learning activities;

b) as teachers implementing resource based problem-solving educational projects and collaborative strategies in their classes; and

c) as researchers collecting, examining and interpreting data about their practice and their students’ learning.

Participants will be provided with templates that promote project based teaching, student-centered learning, that encourage the use of strategies that demonstrated significant impact on students’ interest and active engagement. Indicative examples are: Guided Research Model, Inquiry Based Teaching, Project-based Learning, ICT supported Culture Awareness Learning (ICCAL) and the COLLAGE project approach, which they will be given the opportunity to modify according to their discipline and their students’ needs. A number of indicative portals, such as MERLOT [www.merlot.org], LRE [lreforschools.eun.org], Natural Europe [www.natural-europe.eu], Organic.Edunet [www.organic-edunet.eu], TED-Ed [http://ed.ted.com/], will be proposed to participants in order to help them develop their technology enhanced learning scenarios. The training course comprises 6 hours of presentations and demonstrations and 19 hours of hands-on workshops. The workshops will be held in a multimedia laboratory where each participant will have direct access to a PC and will carry out planned exercises (participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own laptops). Also, according to their field of expertise and particular interests, participants will have the opportunity to visit informal learning sites, such as the Skinakas Observatory, the Natural History Museum of Crete, the Knossos archaeological site and the Herakleion Archaeological Museum, where they will be introduced to innovative ways for creating links between schools, research centres and/or museums as informal learning settings.