The Centre for Innovative and Lifelong Learning is currently hosting 13 teacher trainers from the Seychelles Institute of Teacher Education (SITE) for a two week period to work jointly with the Staff of the Centre on the development of 4 modules to be offered under ongoing teacher training program in Seychelles as from February 2017 under DEOL mode. The workshop is jointly funded by the Commonwealth of Learning and the Ministry of Education, Seychelles in collaboration with the University of Mauritius under its Living Lab project.
The thirteen staff (11 academics and 2 technical staff) are working in close collaboration with CILL staff and students of CILL to develop instructional content, interactive materials, e-book development, MOODLE authoring and video recordings. The two persons under the technical track are working on video authoring and e-Learning platform administration, and they are supporting the team while getting hands-on training.
The initial training started in 2015, when two workshops were held in Seychelles, and followup done online, and the current workshop has been organized so that the knowledge and skills acquired by the staff can be put into application to further develop competencies. The courses will be delivered online and in blended format as from February 2017. The model was presented in the PCF8 conference of the Commonwealth of Learning in Malaysia.
