[Go e-Learning] Develop engaging online courses  based on free, open and innovative web based tools with emphasis on Learning (and not on e-)

Course Objectives

By completing this course, you will be able on behalf of your training organisation to develop e-learning courses with strong didactic and pedagogic elements based on free, open and innovative web based tools. In specific, you willget familiar with good e-learning practices applicable to both school education and adult education
  • master on how to make e-Learning courses fully based on pedagogical elements and didactic tips
  • get familiar on specific free web based and multimedia applications for developing superb e-Learning courses
  • Learn how to go from face-to-face training to e-Learning training and increase the efficiency, impact and reach compared to traditional teaching practices
  • get familiar with functional e-Learning practices for all, including people with disabilities
  • Assess, evaluate and provide suggestions of improvement on current e-Learning courses for adult and school education
  • Establish a network of potential partners or clients from all over Europe and consider other educational and cultural differences
  • receive upon successful completion a specialisation certificate in planning and developing eCourses issued from the largest vocational award body, City and Guilds/Institute of Leadership and Management. This is the only training course in the area of eLearning in whole Europe that is endorsed by the international vocational award body City and Guilds/Institute of Leadership and Management.
The training duration is five days from Monday to Friday, starting at 09:00 and finishing at 17:00 with core teaching till 13:30 and then after lunch based on the flipped classroom model  participants will be able to use individually and on their own pace the eLearning platform of the course and reflect on follow up activities and interact with the trainer. 
The principles taught in this course obviously are not applicable only in educational projects in school or adult education but also in other forms of education (e.g. Higher Education). 

Course Fee and Cost for Validating Learning Outcomes

More specifically, the training fee for the full five days is 350 € per participant. All participants at the end of the course will receive a certificate of successful attendance and a europass mobility if applicable. 
Furthermore, our course has been endorsed by City and Guilds/ Institute of Leadership and Management and participants can receive with some small extra fee a specialisation certificate  in managing web based elearning systems issued by City&Guilds/ILM, the world-wide vocational award body. In any case, according to the new funding rules for the programming period 2014-2020, participants in european projects should prove their technical capacity for participating in most of the european projects and receive EC grants. In this case, such a certification for the organisation's staff will be a significant credit for the technical capacity of your organisation. 

Course Sessions

 The following session have been planned so far since the time availability of the main trainer Mr. Nikolaos Floratos is very limited since he is assigned a lot of training assignments all over the world.  Please consider them for pre-registering in the session(s) that possibly is/are more convenient for your organisation and your participants. 
  1. 03 -07 Oct 2016​ (Fully booked)
  2. 17-21 April 2017
  3. In case one organisation wishes to send at least 5 participants to get trained in one session, then we can arrange a special session just for that organisation at dates that are convenient for both sides.
  4. There  three more sessions planned for 2017 (Summer, autumn and winter of 2017. Dates (Five days per seminar) are flexible) and are arranged on an ad-hoc basis based on the availability of the majority of the participants.   ​

Course Structure

The course duration is five days with specific learning outcomes per day, as well as pre-arrival and follow up activities and provisions to evaluate the long term impact. For more details, download the full agenda and details.

Course Venue and Accommodation

The training takes place in the training premises of NSF CYBERALL-ACCESS, Aiantos 61 and Athinas 34 (Entrance from Athinas), ILION/Athens 13122. For full directions, please check our contact page. The best way to reach us from the center of Athens is by metro and bus with a total ride of around 30-35 minutes. You can arrange to stay at any hotel in Athens you prefer but for your convenience, comfort and cost effectiveness, we suggest you to arrange your accommodation at NOVUS City Hotel a four star hotel just two minutes walk from metro station Metaxourgio in the centre of Athens as well as 4 minutes walk from the bus station for picking up bus no. A11 or B11 to reach directly our training center within 30-35 minutes.  Prices for single rooms with breakfast start from 50 EUR and for doubles from 60 EUR. Please note that this hotel is quite popular and gets fully booked quite often and you need to act fast. For better rates, please use the instructor's name and/or the company's name (N. Floratos and/or CYBERALL ACCESS) and contact the F.O. Manager, Mr. Maniatis at reservations@novushotel.gr.

​Novus Hotel but also all centrally located hotels can be easily reached from the airport by metro, express bus, or taxi as follows:
By Taxi: If you wish to arrive in the city center by taxi, follow the signs to the taxi terminal at the Arrivals Hall of Athens International Airport. The taxi terminal is located at Exit 3. The fare from Athens airport to the city center is fixed:
  • Day time fare (05:00-24:00): 38 €
  • Night time fare (24:00-05:00): 50 €
This is total cost and includes luggage costs, highway tolls, and VAT. The same fixed fares apply going to the airport from Athens center.
Consult the airport website for indicative fares beyond the city center.
By Public Transportation: Athens enjoys a reliable network of bus and metro. The following two options will take you to Syntagma Square, which located at the very heart of Athens. You can check the website of your Athens hotel for specific directions on bus and metro lines to your hotel.
Metro: The train station is connected to the airport although one will require to go a level up from the Arrivals Hall using an elevator and cross over a pedestrian bridge. You are required to purchase a ticket from the station desk for €8 Euros per person. Trains run every 30 mins from 05:30-00:15 (02:00 on Fri & Sat nights) and take 40 mins from/to city center (Syntagma Square). For more information on fares and schedules, consult the airport website or the Attikon Metro portal.
Express bus: The express bus station is located just in front of the Arrivals Hall. The express bus X95 goes directly to Syntagma Square. For more information about the bus network and an interactive map please visit the Transport for Athens portal.
And as Athens is well into the smartphone era, you can also download one of the following apps which shall make getting around Athens much easier:

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There are possibilities for individuals  to participate through their organisation and have all their costs covered with a grant. More specifically,
  1. Educational personnel outside Greece can participate with a grant as long as their organisation has received  an ERASMUS+ KA1 grant or in some cases  a KA2 grant  that covers all the costs (travel, subsistence, course fee and issue of specialisation certificate). 
  2. Educational personnel outside Greece can apply through their organisation for an Erasmusplus KA1 mobility grant and you need to contact the Erasmusplus National Agency of your country for further details.
  3. In any case, any organisation that is currently involved in a European project may be able to send their staff in our training and have all the costs (travel, subsistence, course fee and issue of specialisation certificate) as eligible costs in the context of their european project.   
If you believe, your organisation can take advantage of any of the above options, please contact us with some more details for examining together your choices and how to exploit them. 
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Main instructor
Nikolaos Floratos

Mr. Nikolaos Floratos (B.Eng, M.Sc, DIC, MBA, PhD Researcher) is a PhD researcher at Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona Spain  and his main focus is on student engagement in large scale eLearning courses (i.e. in MOOCHs - Massive Open Online Courses in Higher Education).  He is probably the most qualified expert in teaching you how to set up engaging online courses based on free  or low cost tools. His hobby as well as main profession is training and the last 7 years has been delivering f2f and virtual courses in various areas such as in  research, education, ICT (Information Communication Technologies), social inclusion, entrepreneurship, standardization and consumer issues.  He has also supported hundreds of individuals and organisations mainly from Europe but also from all over the world going online and delivering e-courses in the context of european and national projects. 

What our trainees say

I really liked the course. It gave me useful input for my future work and i was surprised how much fun elearning can be! [Katrin Schiffer, Project Manager, Foundation The Rainbow Group, the Netherlands].
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