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Nowadays teachers are required to meet social, pedagogical and objective requirements related to the information and communication technology (ICT). This is the main reason to pay more attention to teachers’ training by means of ICT and render opportunities for them to get access to topical information, to learn while working. Distance education is one of the learner-friendly ways to give them the necessary knowledge and to develop ICT skills. The paper deals with a distance learning course designed for teachers who are working at secondary schools in Lithuania. The course is developed to improve teachers’ computer literacy and educational skills of ICT application. The main requirements to regulating teachers’ ICT literacy competence, the results of researches on ICT in education, the basic requirements and principles for creating distance education courses are also discussed. Finally, the structure of the distance education course is presented.
This contribution has been implemented within the framework of eStart project (Digital Literacy Network for Primary and Lower Secondary (K-9) Education) under contract 2006 - 4530/001-001 ELE ELEB11.
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Dagienė, V., Zajančkauskienė, L., Žilinskienė, I. (2008). Distance Learning Course for Training Teachers’ ICT Competence. In: Mittermeir, R.T., Sysło, M.M. (eds) Informatics Education - Supporting Computational Thinking. ISSEP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5090. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69924-8_26
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