1. 10 years of Tiger Leap Mart Laanpere (mart.laanpere@tlu.ee) Centre for Eduational Technology (www.htk.tlu.ee) Tallinn University (www.tlu.ee)

2. Roadmap Introducing TLU and HTK 10 years of Tiger Leap Other recent e-developments in Estonia

3. Tallinn University Established 1919 as the main teacher training institute in Estonia; became Tallinn Pedagogical University in 1993 and Tallinn University in 2005 The third largest university in Estonia, about 7000 students, 350 academic staff, 2 doctoral schools Six faculties: social sc, maths & natural sc, educational sc, philological, sports & health sc, cultural studies About 300 courses in LMS, about 30% of staff is using e-learning to some extent

4. Centre for Educational Technology Established in 1997 in the Faculty of Education, moved to TLU Open University in 2002 and to department of informatics in 2006 15 employees, working on R&D projects We develop and maintain our own LMS called IVA (www.htk.tlu.ee/iva) that is used not only in TLU We provide teacher training about e-learning methods and technology to universities, vocational schools, primary & secondary schools

5. Our current projects Comenius: COMP@CTIVE (social software teacher training in Mallorca) FP6: iCamp (social software for e-learning), CALIBRATE (federated national LO repositories) Other: Minerva Blearn (Blended Learning EPSS), ESF (E-university & eVET digital content), Interreg Eastwards: Deer Leap in Georgia, Central Asia Education Collaboration Network, Moldova National surveys: SITES, E-university Software development: VIKO, IVA, Krihvel, E- portfolio

6. Myself Graduated Tallinn Teacher Training Institute 1989, worked as maths teacher & school head MSc in Educational & Training Systems Design from University of Twente, Netherlands Head of CET since 1999 Board member of Comenius network COMP@CT, advisory member of EENet More information on my home page www.mart.pri.ee

7. Tiger Leap 1997 No written strategy Political intiative (T.H. Ilves, J.Aaviksoo) Most of efforts and funds to infrastructure Initial teacher training was provided locally by schools Tiger Leap Foundation Major media campaign Project-based funding

8. Tiger Leap 2001 New national strategy: Tiger Leap Plus All school equipped with computers and Internet Four action lines: –ICT skills for all –Virtual learning environments and contents –Sustainable development –Collaboration The most successful was teacher training component (10 000 teachers passed 40hrs training based on Intel’s TTF programme)

9. Tiger Leap 2006 New national strategy: Learning Tiger Change of vocabulary: e-learning instead of ICT Major action lines: –E-learning environments (VIKO, IVA, Krihvel, Tahvel) –Digital contents (repository, content production) –Teacher training (DigiTiiger) –Communities of practice (e.g. class teachers) –Educational technologists International projects: eTwinning, Calibrate, MELT Side-programmes: AnimaTiger, CNC Exporting Tiger Leap: Georgia, Moldova…

10. Other recent e-developments in Estonia ID-card and E-voting TOM eSchool EUCIP and IEEE curricula