Introduction to digital learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

Introduction to digital learning

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

We are now fully living in a digital world and all the economic sectors, from agriculture to education, are impacted with the digitalisation of their tools and practices. For most of the VET actors, digital learning are two words generating enthusiasm and scepticism amongst them depending their digital skills and experiences but two words they cannot run away because they are now a central part of their everyday work.

All their stakeholders are asking for more digital learning:

– Learners and not only millennials and generation Z are more and more confident to use online tutorials and digital tools for learning. They are quite often asking for it as they don’t understand why they should go into a classroom to learn some general notions that can be easily taught online. Travels are also getting more and more complicated for them for many reasons: costs, availability, pollution…
– Training financing organisations want to increase the number of learners and at the same time their quality with individualisation. Digital learning make it possible to reach those objectives.
– Schools management want to be competitive and offering the same digital services as their competitors.

So, trainers and teachers are meeting many new consultants and new IT companies specialized into developing software, apps, learning management systems, serious games, virtual reality tools…to help them implementing digital learning. And most of them are confused with all those possibilities and tools and don’t basically understand how to integrate them in their everyday job and own pedagogy.

The vocational education and training (VET) sector needs to be modernized and digital learning is a key player of the VET modernisation process. But digital learning is implying digital skills and according to EC, almost half of Europeans (45%) don’t have basic digital skills (using a mailbox, editing tools or installing new devices). The Commission has addressed digital skills and training as part of the EU Skills Agenda alongside the modernisation of VET.

The 2019 European Semester: country-specific recommendations is also tackling those 2 issues:

– “…A large number of Member States are therefore recommended to strengthen and modernise their education and training systems…”
– “…Digitalisation is a key lever of productivity, competitiveness and growth. Traditional sectors and small and medium-sized enterprises are particularly lagging behind in their digital transformation…”

Teachers and trainers are not spared by lack of digital skills and as the cornerstone of VET modernisation success, it is important to implement useful and realistic solutions to help them developing and increasing their own digital learning skills and knowledge.

The INTROduction to digital learning project (INTRO) objective is to create digital trainings for teachers and trainers: Learning how to teach with digital learning.

The INTRO project training is based on 3 specific modules:

1 – Sharing skills & knowledge on innovative and digital learning
2 – How to teach with digital learning
3 – How to learn with digital learning

The INTRO training will be spread using a Facebook Group as a Learning Management System (LMS). The INTRO project digital contents will be tested with about 400 trainers and teachers all over EU.

Expected impacts are:

– Teachers and trainers’ self-confidence with digital learning
– Modernising their training contents
– Increasing their skills & knowledge with digital tools

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 142635 Eur

Project Coordinator

Leno Consulting & Country: FR

Project Partners

• COFAC COOPERATIVA DE FORMACAO E ANIMACAO CULTURAL CRL
• ORANGE HILL Sp. z o.o.
• TREXIMA Bratislava, spol. s r.o.