Integrating Web 2.0 Applications into an Innovative e-Learning Model, Designed for Lifelong Learning

The continuous evolution of informational technologies and communications (ICT) and the permanent improvements of Web 2.0 applications create increasingly more opportunities for their use in education. This work illustrates such an approach for providing specific lifelong learning programs for teachers in education (schools and colleges). Aiming to those facts, an innovative model was developed, based on a Moodle e-learning platform usage, combined with a set of Web 2.0 applications. Those applications were selected as the most appropriate ones to improve the quality of the educational process. The entire training and evaluating activity is carried out on this platform and revolves around the applications transformed into educational tools. The lifelong learning process has a practical purpose by carrying out, based on the individual contributions of learners (teachers in this case), a portfolio of learning units from curricular area of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, designed and developed through ICT integration and above mentioned applications.