The facilities and opportunities the technology has provided have become an indispensable part of daily life. We are living in a period of time in that a life without technology can’t even be imagined. Technology has caused serious changes in very different areas of life, mainly in commerce, communication, transportation and banking. It is unthinkable to assume that education system was not affected, and remained insensitive to these changes and transformations taking part in different levels of society. We can meet the need of an individual for knowledge, increase the efficiency in teaching and learning activities and present teaching and learning alternatives according to individual differences. Thus, learning can be facilitated, enriched and improved by using technology.The opportunity of a teacher to address the students with different learning skills within a very short and limited class period is rather limited.Education in this era should involve both in and outside the class teaching and learning activities.The students should participate in the activities anytime,anywhere by online interactive activities. The main advantage of using this type of blended learning is the possibility to develop effective and efficient learning processes and the acquisition of knowledge and skills required for the Vocational High School students.Our main goal is to modernize the vocational teaching in the field of accountancy and finance.Thus,we will utilize the learning management system MOODLE in our schools as an e-learning system composed of many layers to complement the face-to-face education and develop a mobile application to improve the vocational English level of the students.The project has a multiplier event in Turkey to publicize the output,moodle.An African proverb says "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." We want to make a difference in accountancy field and lead a long-running partnership.So,all the partner schools came together as having the same issues and concerns.The coordinator school is Bayrakli Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School from İzmir,Turkey. The stakeholders are Profesionalna gimnaziya po ikonomika "Aleko Konstantinov" from Bulgaria,Istituto di Istruzione Cesare Beccaria from Italy and 4EPAL KAVALAS from Greece.The methodology consists of management, control,innovation, monitoring, evaluation, certification, dissemination activities.The project covers two transnational meetings and four learning teaching training mobilities,two for the students and two for the teachers.The students will have increased competence of foreign language,technology usage, positive attitude towards the European projects and European values,increased self-confidence and an overall acquisition of global awareness.Teachers will have a broader understanding of practices,policies and systems in education across countries,increased quality of their work and activities in favor of the students and the taste of working in a multicultural environment.The local labour market stakeholders will appreciate the high-quality graduates of the partner countries after leading this project. Accountancy is a dinamic process changing day by day.We need to follow what is brings and where it leads.The moodle will be the compass of our students.It will be the guide for young accountants' journey of the future.
The facilities and opportunities the technology has provided have become an indispensable part of daily life. We are living in a period of time in that a life without technology can’t even be imagined. Technology is a driving force in today’s evolving professions and education in every field and has caused serious changes in very different areas of life, mainly in commerce, communication, transportation and banking. It is unthinkable to assume that education system was not affected, and remained insensitive to these changes and transformations taking part in different levels of society. We can meet the need of an individual for knowledge, increase the efficiency in teaching and learning activities and present teaching and learning alternatives according to individual differences. Thus, learning can be facilitated, enriched and improved by using technology. From this perspective, all four vocational high schools came together as having the same concerns in finance and accounting field.We all aimed modernizing the already taken route in our education. The coordinator school was Bayrakli Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School from İzmir,Turkey. The stakeholders were Profesionalna gimnaziya po ikonomika "Aleko Konstantinov" from Bulgaria ,Istituto di Istruzione Cesare Beccaria from Italy and 4EPAL KAVALAS from Greece. We utilized the learning management system MOODLE in our schools (www.ka2compass.com) as an e-learning system composed of many layers to complement the face-to-face education and developed a mobile application called “E-Count Your English” to improve the vocational English level of the students.Our mobile application consists of 1000 vocabulary items including common phrases in Accounting English. It can be uploaded free in any android device. The project covered two transnational meetings and four learning teaching training mobilities,two for the students and two for the teachers.Teachers had training about the MOODLE system and Web 2.0 tools to use it the lessons whereas the students had training about creating the Wikispaces and had part in testing the mobile application “E-Count your English”. The project also had a multiplier event in Turkey to publicize the output,moodle.A seminar was held in İzmir about how to facilitate the teaching and learning activities in Vocational Schools using learning management system Moodle and mobile application(s). The methodology consisted of management, control,innovation, monitoring, evaluation, certification, dissemination activities. During the project the students competence of foreign language,technology usage, positive attitude towards the European projects and European values increased.