Guide for Best Practices of the Courses

The partners have prepared the training material of the seven modules according to Table 1. The material has been prepared in English and translated in four languages: Czech, Portuguese, Portuguese and Romanian.

Table 1 Modules of the courses and authors

The summary of the modules can be found in Annex 2.

The training activities have been organized as blended courses, carried on in two successive stages:

• Face-to-face courses,
• Online courses on the developed e-learning platform, one learning module on each week.

Figure 1. Face-to face course

A total of 6 blended courses have been held, from February to August 2016. Figure 1 presents the schedule of the six blended courses.

Figure 2. Program of the training activities:

face-to-face courses (green), e-learning courses (red)

Table 2 presents the tutors of the modules of the different blended courses, which have been organized according to the schedule presented in Figure 2. The tutors have been responsible for the face-to-face session and the char session of the corresponding module.

Table 2: Tutors of the seven modules of the different face-to-face courses

* 2 courses

The number of students/trainees attending the face to face course, as can be seen in the last line of Table 2, has ranked from 14 (TZU) and 45 (TU Iași). The average number is 24 (or 20 if we exclude the course at TU Iași).

From the comments received, the ideal number of students in the face to face courses is 20, which corresponds in fact to what was foreseen in the project proposal and to the average number of students, excluding the course at TU Iași. Comments from tutors in Iași suggest that the group was too large and heterogeneous and that it could be divided into two.

In most of the face to face sessions the majority of the students had access to a computer during the sessions. In several cases tutors state that most of the students had had access to a computer and in some cases all the students had access to a computer – this was the case of the courses in Portugal and Slovenia, where the sessions were held in a computer room (one computer per student, with access to moodle platform), see Figure 1.

Most of the face to face sessions have been based on a power point presentation and the presentation of the moodle platform. In some cases the face to face course was also complemented by some laboratory demonstrations.

In most of the face to face sessions the trainees have been very active, putting questions during the session. The face-to-face courses have been conducted interactively, while the questions of the trainees have evidenced their great interest regarding the approached themes. Moreover, the exchange of ideas was especially high, even if the level of preparation of the trainees in the textile-clothing field was different.

Figure 3. Interaction beteween tutor and trainee