E-learning courses for IT-professionals

EIT project presentation: E-learning courses for IT-professionals, Alina Ivanovaite, Vilnius Business College, Lithuania

Main idea: Create English language material, oriented to IT field and to put that material on the website. IT students don’t want to learn from books, they need some material online.

Started: In 2002 Course on computer programming was introduced. But students were not interested in General English or Business English, but English for IT.
After a survey they discovered that most info was for higher level students. That’s why, as English is the language for IT but not compulsory to enter the high school, it would be good to start up English for IT language courses.

Target group: IT students and IT specialist at elementary/post elementary level of English, with passive knowledge of IT related voacabulary. What they did? They developed 12 virtual months – each month is about a different IT topic. Courses were build gradually, from very easy to more complex.
Each virtual week exists of

• an IT
• grammar
• language
• communication
• learning
• revision and
• testing section
  

Additonal there is an online glossary of most common words and one on IT Terminology, a language reference section, a online user guide, online forums and chats, IT case studies. At the end the students receive an EIT certificate, which prove that they have achieve a certain level of IT English.

Go to www.english-it.eu/course to find out how it works. The course will stay for free for some time after the project.