MOCAT project - The Key to Modern Higher Education Institutions

About the project

The modern competencies of academic teachers project is chaired by WSB Poznan Banking School in Poland. The project has 8 partner universities from Turkey, Poland, Iceland, Kenya, Georgia, Romania, Italy and Indonesia. The MOCAT project involves the International cooperation of these 8 universities to jointly develop sustainable solutions that improve the quality of education at universities (including international) through the development of modern methods, tools and materials for academic staff in the field of teaching methodology. The purpose of the project is the development of know-how and sharing experience among the partner universities, as well as the development and implementation of a competence model of an academic teacher, including training materials for online and blended modules, whose use will drive methodological, teaching, and multicultural competencies of university teaching staff. The goal of the project is that academic teachers, in particular those who teach in English, in intercultural groups, from project partner countries. Will have access to training materials and educational tools in order to improve their teaching and intercultural competences (in particular those without pedagogical/ methodological preparation).

Members

Auðbjörg Björnsdóttir, director of the Centre of Teaching and Learning
Helena Sigurðardóttir, Instructional designer at the Centre of Teaching and Learning
Margrét Þ. Einarsdóttir, project manager at the Centre of Teaching and Learning
Helgi Freyr Hafþórsson, project manager at the Centre of Teaching and Learning

Collaborators

Project manager, Lucyna Sobkowiak, WSB University in Poznan