Members of the Chair of Technical Languages at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture at the University of Zagreb, Brankica Bošnjak Terzić, PhD, Olinka Breka Ph.D., and Assistant Professor Snježana Kereković, participated in the three-year project LSP-TEOC.Pro (2020-2023). The full title of the project is “LSP Teacher Education Online Course for Professional Development (LSPTEOC.Pro)” and it is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union (reference number: 2020-1-DE01-005687).
Other members of LSP-TEOC.Pro consortium were: University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Jade Hochschule (Germany), Universidad de Cadiz (Spain), Université de Bordeaux (France), University of Cukurova (Turkey), Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu (Poland), Università di Bergamo (Italy), and Arcola Research (UK).
LSP-TEOC.Pro provides students and teachers of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) with a multilingual online course that allows them to acquire and further develop the competencies needed to successfully teach languages in a specific context. The developed online course targets future and early career teachers who may not have received sufficient education in LSP teaching given the prevalent gaps in LSP teacher training in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).
The project aimed to develop an online course that would be made available to the LSP community as an Open Educational Resource (OER). The OER solution has been implemented as self-directed course on a learning management system (LMS). The LMS allows interested parties to self-enrol and study the course content in its entirety or those sections which are deemed to be of special interest. The course content is available in all languages of the strategic partnership consortium, namely in Croatian, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Slovenian, and Turkish.
All interested LSP teachers can register for the course by clicking on the LSP-TEOC.Pro learning management system page: https://moodle.lsp-teoc-pro.de/.