This project developes a teachers’ toolbox to assist teachers (and trainers) to create high quality Distance Learning courses.

This is a sophisticated (well elaborated, useful, versatile for various subjects, and labour saving) teacher’s tool to create Online Distance Learning courses using the knowledge and experience developed in the project. It‘s web-based and a in-house development of the consortium providing an outreach of current discourse and future trends.
The toolbox provides an intelligent user interface with a database driven programming behind. This toolbox simplifies the course generation for the teachers and offer the access to higher teaching quality and better learning outcomes.

Features of the toolbox:

•  Selection of possible interactive eTivities (following the concept of G. Salmon, Australia) with special focus on collaboration between students, a complete description of each eTivity with instructional design hints and possible assignment methods (if applicable for
  the eTivity)
• Proposal of the course structure including pedagogical hints
• Proposal for the used quality criteria and valuable quality cycles (selected from the developed quality framework)
• Checklists for teachers covering
  • course preparation
  • course execution and
  • assessments and evaluation of taught competences
• Material for the course evaluation
• Tool for easy definition of competence based course outcomes
• Tool for using self-evaluation mandalas including the templates to define the necessary competence description
• Various checklists like
  • Checklist to evaluate the definition of competence based course outcomes
  • Checklist for the quality enhancement process in a course definition
  • Checklist for learner-centered activities in courses

All material can be downloaded and printed. The used language is English.