Strengthen Individual Competences through ICT Erasmus Project

Project Title

Strengthen Individual Competences through ICT

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Objectives
To share our experience in the teaching of ICT in a structured way through presentations of the different partners on specific aspects such as the methodology used, the profile of the students, the evaluation of the results obtained, the difficulties; the initial and continuous evaluation of the students, the certification of the skills and knowledge acquired, the organization of the classroom and the class sessions, the technical aspects (software used, types of network used, etc.), etc. Analyze, discuss, compare these experiences, draw conclusions and disseminate the results of this process. Propose a common methodological approach.
2. To present the practices that each partner has had in different aspects of ICT teaching, such as: e-government, social networks, email, e-banking, shopping, etc. Compare, analyse achievements and difficulties, propose an updated list of basic contents, draw conclusions and disseminate the results.
3. Share experiences in teacher training: How it is structured and how it adapts to continuous changes; What are the training needs of our staff, how we detect them; Analyze, compare, discuss and propose a training model that each partner can adapt to their own circumstances.
Number and type/profile of participants:
Four partners: A support and social integration centre for immigrants (Belgium), an association of adult education teachers and trainers (Czech Republic), an NGO supporting regional social integration and development initiatives (Germany) and a public adult education centre (Spain).
All partners have been offering digital literacy programmes to the adult population in order to avoid the risk of social exclusion, especially to disadvantaged groups and/or those who have remained outside the formal training circuits.
It has been a sufficiently diverse transnational association so we have been able to share our experiences in this field and at the same time lay the foundations for a future innovation project.
The partners of this project have different degrees of experience in teaching ICT and most of them also have experience in the use of technological resources in different areas of teaching and learning. However, most have not had the opportunity to learn about other models, methodological approaches and experiences in this field. This association has undoubtedly meant a change in the way each member works, as each of the models has faced other points of view, other similar experiences, and have ultimately enriched all participating institutions.
The work of all through the tools of collaborative work (Google Drive) and the use of this platform by students and users, has been a factor of innovation for the members of this association. Likewise, the teachers and volunteer monitors have learned about new digital tools that have been adapted, applied and developed locally. In order to achieve the above objectives, each partner endeavoured to work in depth on an example of good practice in the field of digital literacy. Thus, in the first TTL activity, the Spanish partner presented the “Audioguides” project, a product elaborated by its students in the ICT initiation classes. He presented this project in detail, emphasizing the methodology used. This TTL involved not only members of the associated institutions but also adult education teachers, staff of teacher training institutions and representatives of the educational administration at the level of the province of Cadiz. In addition, in the workshop held within the framework of this TTL, the European participants not only learned step by step how the Spanish partner works teaching ICT, but also learned in the field how the “Audioguide” project had been carried out and complemented it by translating into their respective languages and recording the audios to extend the final product of an audioguided route through the town of Ubrique. This way of working by projects, involving the students in the elaboration of a useful and significant final product had a great impact since the three partners later developed different ideas as a result of what they learned in this TTL.
In the second TTL, it was the other three partners who presented their examples of good practices: the partner from the Czech Republic presented an example of good practices on integrative methodology; the Belgian partner showed us its method of individualized attention (DigiLabo) and in the workshop prepared by the German and Belgian partners, they presented us with a technique (Personae) to better know the profile of the user/student.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 45740 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centro de Educación Permanente Siete Villas & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Initiative Regionalgenossenschaft e.V.
• ProEduca z.s.
• Koulutusavain Oy
• INTEGRATIE EN INBURGERING ANTWERPEN
• OULUN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY