AVALON Project

Outcomes:
– Advanced training course / curriculum (e.g.  for language trainers who are already LANCELOT certified)
– 2D guide (training manual) for trainers wishing to work in 3D worlds
– European certificate for the course graduates (as in LANCELOT validated by ICC Europe). The accreditation partner guarantees that the AVALON certificate is internationally recognized.

Consortium:

In AVALON a consortium of 26 European partners (11 of which were universities) developed a training course for language trainers:

Project Coordinator and co-initiator: University of Manchester (UK), Dr. Gary Motteram

Co-Initiator: Dr. Ilona Hündgen, LearnGalaxy

Project partners:
ICC International Certificate e.V., Germany
LANCELOT School GmbH, Germany (Co-initiator)
Mid Sweden University, Sweden
Molde University, Norway
Talkademy, Austria (Co-initiator)
The British Council, Spain
Universita di Pisa, Italy
University of Vienna, Austria
Verein Grenzenlos, Austria

Associate partners:
Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom
European Telecoaching Institute, Germany
HUMlab, Umea University, Sweden
IBM Virtual Universe Community
IH World Organisation Ltd
Languagelab.com
Learning Technologies SIG of IATEFL
MONDIALE Testing Systems
myngle.com, Germany
SEED, Stockholm University, Sweden
SKYLIGHT GmbH
Tunnicliff and Kollegen Gbr, Germany
University of Kassel, Germany
University of Siena, Italy
University of Tübingen, Germany
Západočeská univerzita Plzeň, Czech Republic