Research Article

Teacher Learning within a Multinational Project in an Upper Secondary School

Table 1

Project-related activities during the end of 2013–June 2016.

2013AutumnA presentation in the teachers’ meeting. It consisted of describing the project as well as the trialogical learning approach.
DecemberA planning meeting was organized in the school with a few teachers.

2014JanuaryKNORK kick-off meeting, including a workshop for planning the first courses. Three teachers and the principal participated.
NovemberTeacher meeting in the school for inspiring new teachers to participate.

2015 JanuaryKNORK Consortium meeting and a theory-driven pedagogical workshop. Two teachers participated (one coordinator, one of the teachers who was in the kick-off meeting)
Theory-driven workshop for all teachers in the school (42 participants): the researchers provided the teachers with a design template for improving their courses based on the TLA approach. Teachers were encouraged to collaborate with each other in redesigning courses or creating new courses.
A follow-up of the previous workshop; guiding teachers to continue their plans. Several teachers participated, mainly those who had implemented some course designs that had been planned before.

2015August– NovemberGuiding teachers to write descriptions of courses or tools on the project pages based on a common template (energy in an ecosystem, comparing the idea of human rights in various historical declarations, and Blogger). Researchers participated as coauthors and editors in the writing process.

2015NovemberOrganizing a reflection workshop. The courses were reflected based on students’ self-evaluation results collected with the Collaborative Knowledge Practices (CKP-School) questionnaire [32] presented by the researchers. Discussions of future work. Several teachers participated.

2015AprilA major national event where the researchers invited the school to participate and present the project outcomes; one teacher participated.

2015April-MayGuiding teachers to write descriptions of courses on the project pages (voluntary work, game culture, and media entrepreneurship).