E-learning for teachers and trainers : innovative practices, skills and competences

New technologies are irreversibly\y transforming training processes into complex systems. They have a profound impact on the roles of teachers and trainers in the learning process and lead us to reconsider the skills and competences they require. The current report presents the results of the research work done by Cedefop's Training of trainers network - TTnet - in 2002-03 in analysing examples of innovative practices in the training of teachers and trainers who use e-learning and identifying the range of activities, competences and roles involved in such practices. The study was carried out by a partnership of e-learning practitioners and developers, training experts and university researchers from seven European countries: Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria and the United Kingdom. The overarching outcome of the study was to produce findings on innovative practice in e-learning that could be of value to practitioners (such as educationalists, web designers and instructional designers), policy-makers (both nationally and throughout Europe) and researchers.