HTL Dornbirn Gütersloh, 21.11.2005 Comenius-Project Interteach Presentation of the schools.

Gütersloh, 21.11.2005 Comenius-Project Interteach

HTL Dornbirn

Presentation of the schools


HTL Dornbirn

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

Paris and Vienna


HTL Dornbirn

Geographical Location• Near Lake of

Constance• 5km to Swiss

border• 15km to German

border• 25km to Liechtenstein Dornbirn


HTL Dornbirn

City of Dornbirn• About 45.000 inhabitants• Biggest town of

Vorarlberg• Economic center• Not political center

Bregenz• Rural aspects


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)


HTL Dornbirn

Main fields of study• Information Technology combined with

Business Studies• Textile Engineering

– Textile manufacturing– Textile management

• Chemistry– Environmental chemistry– Textile chemistry


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


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


HTL Dornbirn

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)


HTL Dornbirn

Infrastructure

• High speed internet access in every room

• Routed/switched network and wireless LAN

• 6 notebook-classes and 15 computer rooms


HTL Dornbirn

Information Technology

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

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

• Software engineering

• Network technology

• Project management


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

HTL Dornbirn Gütersloh, 21.11.2005 Comenius-Project Interteach Presentation of the schools.

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