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HTL Dornbirn

Presentation of the schools

Gütersloh, 21.11.2005 Comenius-Project Interteach

HTL Dornbirn

Geographical Location• Austria• Vorarlberg• Most western part• Half-way between

Paris and Vienna

Gütersloh, 21.11.2005 Comenius-Project Interteach

HTL Dornbirn

Geographical Location• Near Lake of

Constance• 5km to Swiss

border• 15km to German

border• 25km to Liechtenstein Dornbirn

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HTL Dornbirn

City of Dornbirn• About 45.000 inhabitants• Biggest town of

Vorarlberg• Economic center• Not political center

Bregenz• Rural aspects

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HTL Dornbirn

Our school

• Vocational school on a secondary level

• Two streamings of technical college: – 3 years of training exams at lower

secondary level (~ GCSE)– 5 years of training exams at advanced

level (~ high school diploma)

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HTL Dornbirn

Main fields of study• Information Technology combined with

Business Studies• Textile Engineering

– Textile manufacturing– Textile management

• Chemistry– Environmental chemistry– Textile chemistry

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HTL Dornbirn

General information

• Students’ age 15 to 20 years

• 35 classes

• 800 students

• 110 teachers about 65 full time

• 37 lessons per week about 1/3 in “hands-on” laboratory

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HTL Dornbirn

Final exams at advanced level

• General academic education “Matura” admittance to any university

• Factual exams “Diplom” title “Ingenieur” acquired after 3 years of professional career

• Projects in cooperation with companies

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Our Positioning• Member of ENIS (European Network of Innovative Schools)

• Participation in European Projects

• Cisco Academy

• Cooperation with Microsoft and SAP

• Open Source Initiatives• Member of eLC (eLearning Cluster Austria)

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HTL Dornbirn

Infrastructure

• High speed internet access in every room

• Routed/switched network and wireless LAN

• 6 notebook-classes and 15 computer rooms

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Information Technology

• Basic skills (Hardware, operating systems, internet, …)

• Office applications• Programming (C++, C#, .NET, Java, PHP)

• Software engineering

• Network technology

• Project management

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HTL Dornbirn

eLearning activities

• Mainly in the 6 notebook-classes

• eLC-project (7 schools in Vorarlberg, 50 all over Austria)

• Using ILIAS as learning platform (LCMS)

• Using WIKI for pupils’ collaboration

• Special trainings for teachers since 2001