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Comprehensive analysis of EIT testing results from partner meeting in Valencia with feedback from Spain, Cyprus, Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania, and Austria. Examines strengths and areas for improvement in materials, learning objectives, interactivity, portal design, and user experience. Valuable insights for enhancing English-IT learning programs.
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Testing in Spain, Cyprus, Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania Austria – no target group; material and portal evaluation by IFS IT students, IT specialists and teachers Feedback by partners
Spain:, 18 IT students, 8 IT professionals, 2 English teachers Cyprus: 35 students, 5 faculty members Poland WSB: 5 students, 5 IT specialists and 5 teachers Slovakia: 45 students Lithuania VU: Lithuania VBC: 20 IT students, 4 IT professionals, 4 English teachers
What’s good about EIT? • Materials very IT oriented • Suitable for independent learning • Learn not only English, but new things in IT • Variety of tasks/activities (also Internet based) • Level A2 kept • Text to speech tool (IVONA)
What to improve? Learning materials: • Introduce explanations and examples at the start of the tasks • Introduce learning aims of the week • Provide feedback to the tasks • Introduce collaborative tasks • Include speaking activities • Course map at the beginning of the course
What to improve? Portal: • Design – colours, structure, space balance, unnecessary items, links, etc. • Navigation – to see where you are in the course, navigation between lessons • More graphics, pictures, photos • More interactivity • Audio files
New EIT learning portal http://www.english-it.eu/course/