European Platform for Personalized Learning of Languages Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Platform for Personalized Learning of Languages

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 school education

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; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Research and innovation

Project Summary

The PEAPL project (Plateforme Européenne d’Apprentissage Personnalisé des Langues -European Platform for Personalized Learning of Languages) stems from a close collaboration between schools and higher education. The domain of research will feed that in schools which will, in turn, lead to further research.

The horizontal priority of the project concerns « Innovative practices in a digital era » to which two additional priorities are added with respect to the two fields of research and experimentation: 1. For higher education: « Building inclusive higher education systems », 2. For schools: « Reinforcing the development of key competences ». The chosen themes are as follows: a. Research and innovation b. New innovative curricula / educational methods / development of training courses.

The strategic partnership involves nine partner organizations from four countries (France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland).

The PEAPL project is intended to develop adaptive learning in language teaching aiming to successfully include allophone learners.

The project includes 5 intellectual outputs:
1. Adaptive Learning module development;
2. EduGamesHub multilingual web platform;
3. ASKER exercise generators;
4. Educational resources also including a teaching repository for each language and for each field of experimentation of the platform;
5. A toolkit for teachers facilitating training in the use of PEAPL.

Two platforms (1 & 2) are to be developed in parallel and will come together at the end of the contract so as to:
• allow the adaptive learning tool to make use of learners’ traces for the elaboration of personalized courses;
• broaden the educational possibilities offered to the teacher.

The first platform, GamesHub, developed by HEP-FR will enable the design of articulated and self-adaptive teaching / learning paths in languages, with an interface adapted to the needs of different learners. The second platform, ASKER, will be enriched to support language teaching / learning and to enable the automatic generation of a multitude of exercises for a given knowledge acquisition by relying on resources and models.

The PEAPL project will allow 8 multiplier events for the 5 intellectual outputs, between January and June 2023:
• PEAPL-LAB: the digital tools Adaptive Learning/EduGamesHub/ASKER generator will be presented in the 4 countries in January 2023
• PEAPL-LAB: the complete platform with integrated teaching resources and the Teachers’ Toolkit will be disseminated in the 4 countries in June 2023.

Multiplier events will take the form of workshops organized in each partner country and will focus at the same time on the investigation phase (methodology and skills), implementation (toolkit, guidelines, resources) and dissemination (creation of networks for the distribution of associated practices).

The PEAPL project provides for the development of educational resources to be integrated in the GamesHub and ASKER platforms to build the learning paths (GamesHub) and exercises (ASKER) offered to learners. Resources are therefore to be produced by each team, in different languages and with respect to each targeted level (from primary to higher education). All resources will focus on text reading and understanding because this is a key skill for both school and social integration.

Therefore the preliminary task of each teaching team will be to define the objectives envisaged for each learner target group and to build the skill, knowledge and associated know-how benchmarks. These benchmarks are of fundamental importance since they are to be used by the adaptive learning tool and will guide the generation of courses and exercises related to the various subsections of the repository.

In order to train teachers from partner countries, a « joint short-term staff training event » will be set up in December 2020 this being a prerequisite to starting the project. The HEP-FR will be responsible for the training course with the intention of giving each team the ability to develop the repository related to the assigned field before producing the associated resources.

In order to prepare, monitor and progressively evaluate the project, 5 transnational meetings will take place between October 2020 and August 2023. The first event will take the form of a steering committee meeting to frame the start of the project. The last one will be used to present the final product accompanied by an evaluation sheet and a product continuity and sustainability plan.

Project Website

http://peapl.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 449923 Eur

Project Coordinator

ECOLE EUROPENNE de Paris la Défense & Country: FR

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITE LYON 1 CLAUDE BERNARD
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MACERATA
• INSTITUT NATIONAL DES LANGUES ET CIVILISATIONS ORIENTALES
• Edulingua SRL
• Ecole Europeenne Bruxelles III
• Haute Ecole pédagogique Fribourg
• SORBONNE UNIVERSITE