WP6

Piloting
This workpackage is led by P8 Tensta.

Interim conclusions from the VISCED project will become available after one year - just prior to Christmas 2011. This allows time to pilot some of the innovations and good practices discovered.

This WP selects, pilots and reviews the outcomes of innovative ICT-based pedagogic approaches in schools/colleges:
 * 1) one school in Sweden (Ross Tensta Gymnasium)
 * 2) two institutions in the UK (two schools/colleges in Sheffield)
 * 3) two secondary schools in Greece in the Arsakia-Tositsia schools run by Filekpedeftiki Eteria (Friends of Education Society); the schools also offer interesting student support services.

The aim of the pilots is to test out innovative ICT-based approaches and write recommendations for wider use across Europe based on the pilots' outcomes.

Piloting will take place during the school terms from January until July 2012 - this period has to be fixed even if the project schedule changes slightly (for example if the project started a little late.)

Planning of the pilots will take place from the start of the school terms in August/September 2011.

P8 Ross Tensta Gymnasium is the pilot institution in Sweden.

P2 Sero is in close contact on other ICT projects with Sheffield College (http://www.online.sheffcol.ac.uk) and all the secondary schools in Sheffield - there is a changing pattern of ICT deployment in these, with already some activity concerning virtual schools/colleges. Consequently, selection of the two specific Sheffield institutions for piloting will thus be deferred until nearer the relevant time - see Deliverable D.6.1 below.

P1 LRF has good relationships with the Arsakia-Tositsia Schools and nearer the time of the pilot, will work with Filekpedeftiki Eteria to select two of the most appropriate schools for piloting.

(Other partners will be encouraged to make contact with innovative schools in their relevant countries/regions as part of their work in WP2, but not to organise piloting.)

P8 Tensta

 * Coordinate piloting.


 * Organise piloting at Ross Tensta Gymnasium.

P2 Sero

 * Organise piloting in two schools (or one college and one school) in the Sheffield area of Yorkshire, England, UK.

P1 LRF

 * Organise piloting in two secondary schools in the Arsakia-Tositsia schools in Greece.

Explanation of workpackage expenditures
There is no travel and subsistence associated with this workpackage. Any local travel is assumed to be the responsibility of the partner or the pilot schools.

P8 Tensta oversees the piloting at its own institution (Ross Tensta Gymnasium) and pays the teachers in the institution for developing the pilots (but not teaching them - this is covered by school budgets) - thus only staff days are charged - and there is obviously no travel.

P2 Sero will issue subcontracts of 2000 euros each to two Sheffield schools/colleges to cover piloting. If more than two schools/colleges are interested then a formal but expeditious tender process will take place to obtain best value for the VISCED project. For this reason, and also the range of institutions involved and the widely varying scale of the courses, it is not possible to put a "number of days" tariff on the subcontract. Sero does not normally charge travel within Sheffield.

P1 LRF will discuss with Filekpedeftiki Eteria (Friends of Education Society) the best and most cost-effective way of resourcing the pilots in the two Arsakia-Tositsia schools - including using LRF staff in the piloting. For this reason, the days for the piloting are held in the LRF budget not handled as a subcontract.

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