1. “ e-TWINNING FOR
INSTITUTIONAL OR PROFESSIONAL
GROWTH IN LEARNING”
INTRODUCTION
Internet enables people to learn in a network without
meeting in physical environments. Blogs, Wikis, Twitter message
and other web 2-0 media forms bring learners many new learning
experiences people are fond of learning with other people and
make competitions. Learning networks make it possible for
learners to team together and to show their achievements certain
monitoring tools are required to monitor the learning activities.
However, it is challenging to measure the performance of learning
or to tell who make better progress in learning some soft skills.
The e-twinning portal is considered as an informal dialogue
to improve teaching. Consequently, informal assessment methods
2. of learners learning performance or achievements are required
for informal learning and informal professional development. In
some professional social networks, people's personal contacts
number may show how well their social relationship. For
instance, contacts number is label for the prominent in the
professional social network site LinkedIn . Research on
information diffusion patterns in people's network may be
employed for assess learners in learning network. E-twinning
action is an initiative of the European commission that aims to
encourage European schools to collaborate using. Information
Communication Technologies (ICT) by providing the necessary
infrastructure. Therefore teachers registered in the e-Twinning
action are enabled to form partnerships and develop collaborative
, pedagogical school projects in any subjects area with the sole
requirements to employ ICT to develop their project and
collaborate with teachers from other European.
History of E- Twinning
The E-Twinning action was launched in January 2005 as the
main action of the European Commission's Learning Program, E-
Twinning has been firmly integrated in Erasmus, the European
Program for Education Training, Youth and Sport, since
2014.Its main objectives complied with the decision by the
Barcelona European Council in March 2012 to promote school
twinning as an opportunity for all students to learn and
3. pratice.ICT Skills and to promote awareness of the multicultural
European model of society. More than 13,000 schools were
involved in E-Twinning within its first year. In fall, 2008 over
50,000 teachers and 4000 projects have been register white a new
E-Twinning platform was launched.
E-Twinning encourages and develops ICT Skills as the
main activities inherently use information technology. Being
twinned with a foreign school also encourages cross cultural
exchange of knowledge, fosters students intercultural awareness,
and improves their communication skills.
E-Twinning offers a wide variety of continues Profession
Development (CPD) opportunities to which about 20,000
teachers participate every year. Training is both online and face to
face at national and European level, formal and non formal. It
promotes both project based learning and inquiry based learning
approach to teaching by the means of E-Twinning projects.
Conclusion
E-Twinning offers a platform for staff including teachers,
head teachers, librarians etc. working in a school in one of the
European countries involved, to communicates, collaborate
develop projects, share and in short feel and be part of the most
exciting learning community in Europe. E-Twinning promotes
school collaboration and school networking in Europe through
the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
