Innovative Tools for Enhancing E-Learning Solutions in Universities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Innovative Tools for Enhancing E-Learning Solutions in Universities

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 : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality and Relevance of Higher Education in Partner Countries; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The crisis generated by the COVID 19 pandemic has forced European universities to move their teaching activities to the online environment. Although most Higher Education Institutions have implemented E-Learning platforms years ago, the teaching staff are now experiencing difficulties in using these platforms and in creating and adapting the course content, needed to quickly adapt to a fast evolving and complex situation.
DIGITOOLS is a project aimed at introducing enhanced digital tools and methods to help university staff deliver quality education through online means.
The DIGITOOLS project will develop five Intellectual Outputs which will support the teaching staff from Higher Education Institutions to acquire the skills and competencies needed to create and deliver high quality online courses, including blended teaching. The role of university libraries will be crucial in this project, as they will have to adapt their services and provide digital learning materials as well as information and digital skills training, both to teaching staff and students.
As a result of the DIGITOOLS project, the universities will be able to provide, through teaching staff and libraries, high quality online training courses, with a focus on subject – specific teaching.
The project brings together seven Higher Education Institutions and one consulting SME, specialized in digitization, from seven countries and will focus on the implementation of online and blended teaching, encouraging, at every step, the unitary practice.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 259630 Eur

Project Coordinator

LIMERICK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & Country: IE

Project Partners

• MBTHINKTANK SRL
• SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU
• INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DO PORTO
• PANEPISTIMIO KRITIS
• UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA
• UNIVERSITATEA TRANSILVANIA DIN BRASOV