The IAF goes online... the International e-Academy
In 2005 the IAF started a new seminar model based on the experience of the online programme of the Foundation's German education programme: the International e-Academy. It comprises a preparatory online-phase and a face-to-face seminar at the Theodor Heuss Academy in Gummersbach.
During the online phase around 100 participants from all over the world discuss basic ideas of the seminar topic and share experience through various online tools on a bilingual platform (English and Spanish). They even use modern IT tools such as wikis to produce common work group results and solutions. In this way the online phase is in itself a comprehensive learning cycle. All participants, who have followed the full e-course and achieved a certain score, receive a certificate for the successful completion of the online seminar. To give this course a competitive edge, the 24 best participants of the online phase are then invited to the face to face seminar in Gummersbach, where discussions from the online course are taken up again and developed further. Experience has shown that the commitment of e-Academy participants and the quality of discussions during the Gummersbach course are extremely high.
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