The aim of BL_TEAE is to build a blended reflexive learning community of teacher educators (through the use of ePortfolio, video sharing and online community discussion), who will share best practices and work collaboratively to develop a common draft of teacher training curriculum.

The project has the following objectives:

1. To define the technological and pedagogical needs that are appropriate for teacher educators;
2. To design a BL course with training modules on innovative pedagogical and technological innovations which are based on a socio-constructivist perspective;
3. To build and animate the reflective community through the use of ePortfolio, video sharing and online discussion, in a continued and circular process of reflection;
4. To design a curriculum design framework for teacher training, taking into account local, regional, national and international (EU) requirements and conditions;
5. To pilot the implementation of draft curriculum design framework and the introduction of innovative practices, also in an exploitable version.

As such, the blended course developed in this project will include:

• Collaborative learning and construction of knowledge (Scardamalia & Bereiter, 2003): teacher educators will be able to develop innovative teaching practices and implement these practices to improve teacher training.
• Artefact and object-oriented activity to improve teaching training curriculum:
  recent attention in design blended learning course focuses on creating concrete collaborative knowledge objects (Bereiter, 2002; Knorr Cetina, 2001; Paavola and Hakkarainen, 2005).

The blended course developed in the project will include:

• A combination of different methods of instruction or methods of teaching/learning in science and technology with training content and sharing of teaching best practices from each partner;
• A combination of online training opportunities and continue support to the implementation of it.