PR 3
- Starting Date: 11-2022
- Project Type: Interactive community-based open educational resources, MOOCs, and tutorials/training including practical and pedagogical tips and support on the Digital Hub
- Leading Partner: WONDERFUL EDUCATION SRL
This PR will directly build on the results from the PR1 and PR2 to create a holistic approach to the digital pedagogy where training on tools, digital competences and pedagogy come together. According to research done by consortium partners (UPF), usefulness ratings from teachers for CPD activities were slightly higher during the COVID-19 emergency than before it (Albo et al,2020). Learning through collaboration received the highest usefulness ratings. Moreover, the ethnographic research underway by the participating organization (WE) observing three teachers’ FB groups, shows that teachers have had a great problem in the reorganisation of teaching and redesign of learning activities. Very little of them are trained in digital pedagogy and how to prepare their lessons accordingly. Other survey research suggests that teachers suffer from the lack of digital learning resources (by scuola.net in Italy). It is also observed that very little proportion of the teachers are familiar with how to access existing OERs, how to create new ones, how to blend teaching materials with existing OERs, how to share, and what license regulation is. The project will tackle this issue and pave a path towards the advocacy of OER use in the schools. Target groups: Teachers; anyone who is interested in teaching tools, digital pedagogy, and online learning; experts; lifelong learners Elements of innovation: We aim to build a MOOC-based community where teachers can learn more about the digital pedagogy and guidelines created in PR2, discuss issues regarding online or hybrid lessons, exchange practice and create a community space between experts and academic staff. We will provide a digital tools catalogue contextualised in authentic use case scenarios and digital reorganisation guidelines plus crowdsourced eLearning tool tutorials in different languages. The initial expert consultation and tool tutorials will be provided by the partner organisations, however, it is expected that the community will maintain itself as it grows. Even though there are a lot of available tools and descriptions of how to use them, the digital hub where they can exploit use cases and expert support is rare if not none. Expected impact and transferability potential: The main expected impact of this PR is to build an online community that reaches beyond the partner institutions and sustains itself even after the project lifetime. We aim that teachers could improve the quality of their online and hybrid lessons based on the principles of digital pedagogy benefiting from the created digital hub. The content produced in this PR will be used in PR4 and PR5. Also, the MOOCs, tutorials, and the digital hub will be openly available, which can be used by other organisations for training purposes beyond our training programme. The produced materials will be in at least 4 languages of the project partners as well as in English. We expect at least 120 participants per country. Moreover, the digital hub welcomes anyone who wants to contribute to their languages which will expand the reach of the project to beyond the EU.