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E-Learning Portal for School Teachers: Partnership Opportunities Igor Morozov, Rector of IT Academy 1. Educational projects implemented by IT Academy IT Academy has vast experience in projects for educational institutions. Among the customers of such projects are «Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation» and the number of educational establishments of higher and secondary vocational education.

2. Federal Educational Project «Implementing of Open Source Software in Russian schools» (NP-12) The characteristics, scope and issues of the project. The main aim of the part of the project realized by IT Academy was to train school employees throughout Russian Federation to introduce and use of Open Source Software in the learning process.

3. Training programs and educational formats During realization of the project a new educational format to cover educational establishments within the whole country was developed by IT Academy. It included one-day conferences, e-Learning activities and full-time training and testing.

4. e-Learning technologies The majority of school employees were trained using e-Learning technologies. At the eLearning portal «pspo.it.ru» were registered about 80 000 users in total. On the basis of online training full-time final testing was organized in each subject of Russian Federation.

5. Development of e-Learning portal, supporting the implementation and usage of Open Source Software within the learning process Technological aspect is the key element in organization of educational project. As a technical core for e-Learning portal to organize the interaction of teachers and students was selected Open Source Software – Moodle.

6. e-Learning portal audience The 80 000 audience of the «pspo.it.ru» portal includes teaching stuff, representatives of educational institutions administration, schoolchildren and others (e.g. system administrators).

7. The results of Federal Project NP-12 Within the project educational and methodological framework was developed. There has been organized e-Learning for 77 706 school employees form 83 Russian regions, full-time testing for 53 473 school employees, and full-time conferences in 20 Russian cities.

8. Opportunities of partnership «Pspo.it.ru» portal provides a number of unique opportunities for collaboration, that include report the information to the target audience; use of the operating e-Learning portal for educational purposes, provided with 24/7 technical support; the access to up-to-date teaching materials for installation and administration of Open Source Software.