Manjula Vithanapathirana disseminated the CONTESSA Modules as open educational resources for primary education teachers at the inaugural address of the Multidisciplinary International Conference (online) titled ‘Journey of Teacher Education Reform.’
Sandra Hummel presented the collaborative research paper with Manjula Vithanapathirana titled ‘ Enhancing Contemporary Teaching Skills to Address the Changing Role of Teachers as a Results of the Long-term Social Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic’.
Professor Rudolf Egger (Uni Graz) was a keynote speaker at the University of Colombo’s International Research Symposium online. He spoke about the connection between research, knowledge and communication and discussed the ongoing CONTESSA project and its role in interdisciplinary research in education.
Professor Manjula Vithanapathirana presented CONTESSA at the virtual International Conference on Multidisciplinary Approaches in Science (ICMAS) at the University of Colombo as an invited speaker for the session entitled “COVID-19; The Sri Lankan Perspective”.
CONTESSA and the Train-the-Trainer program were presented at the Work2021-Conference in Turku, Finland. Andreas Dürrschmidt from the Chair of Adult Education and Continuing Vocational Education at Dresden University of Technology (TUD) was happy to contribute to the conference´s overall topic “Work Beyond Crises”. The presentation dealt with the challenges of education programs that strongly rely…
On 17.09.2021, Andreas Dürrschmidt and Christian Müller from the Chair of Adult Education and Continuing Vocational Education at Dresden University of Technology (TUD) presented at the annual conference of the adult education section of the German Educational Research Association (GERA).
Thomas Köhler presented CONTESSA Project at the 24th annual conference GeNeMe on “Communities in New Media” in Dresden
CONTESSA was an education partner at the International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning. Professor Thomas Köhler spoke about CONTESSA during a special session at the conference.
Professor Manjula Vithanapathirana spoke at a roundtable discussion entitled ‘Education in Crisis: Rethinking Education in (Post) Pandemic South Asia.’ The 2021 online conference was organized by the University of Oxford from July 23-24 and highlighted the need for remote teacher development programs such as CONTESSA, which will be fulfilling the need for a primary teacher development program through a blended or online mode in the post-pandemic context in South Asia.
International conference on Teaching, Education and Learning will cover the rigorous analysis of the educational process, systems and approaches along with the cultural, societal, political, historical and economic contexts. Professor Manjula Vithanapathirana delivered the keynote address for the Conference on CONTESSA with the title “A Blended Learning Primary Teacher Education Innovation: Lessons from an international collaboration between Europe and Asia amidst of COVID-19 pandemic.”