e-Preparation Portal for Teachers-Students-Parents Including Abroad Studies Erasmus Project

Project Title

e-Preparation Portal for Teachers-Students-Parents Including Abroad Studies

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: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Open and distance learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

e-Prep simply aims to support the e-preparation of the whole e-learners for the new era, which was thought to all of us with this unfortunate COVID-19 pandemic experience, which is still going on and probably it will keep shaping our lives in the near future too. e-Prep also recognizes the fact that, all Europeans are life long learners, and teachers keep learning while they also teach.

In more specific sense, e-Prep further aims to clarify terminologies which we all have been using before/during COVID-19 restructuring our learning/teaching ways, and give their proper definitions, including but not limited to Online Learning or e-Learning, Distance, Remote, Blended, Flipped and Hybrid Learning; and address the Hybrid e-Training by also including “parents” within the picture, beyond the teaching and learning individuals. Thus, e-Prep puts also a special attention on the need of the proper e-Preparation of parents for their e-Readiness to this new “learning/training style”; especially mothers, who are usually in charge of close coordination of pupils e-Training phases.

The “preparation” of all three audiences; teachers, students and parents, aiming their “readiness” is rather a very big issue and a big challenge, and e-Prep has been designed according to the philosophy “Never bite off more than you can chew”; consequently therefore the project will concentrate on real life cases and give practical knowledge and information to the audience by using mobile technology, FAQ – questions and answers by friendly avatars speaking in different partner country languages, which will consider their instant situation and availabilities as well as restrictions/constraints. For example, a student and/or a parent must be aware about the optimum utilization of their Internet access package (resolution versus speed versus cost) while teacher must be aware of producing e-learning material which will be compatible with the maximum number of different devices; mobiles including tablets, number of different OS versions, so on.

Moreover, e-Prep will present “mentoring type” knowledge transfer among three different target groups; also “guiding” type experience transfer between people belonging to the same target group. That is, a teacher will mentor a parent; at the same time the reacher will guide another teacher; also parents and students will be encouraged to be involved in such knowledge/experience transfer for supporting their preparation phase for the new learning/teaching lives.

Three different sections of e-Prep will target three diverse target groups; while it will also contain needs for pre-departure orientation studies for the large number of incoming foreign students to Europe or within Europe. Since the foreign students’ presence in EU is not only important because of spreading European culture, but also important to support European school system’s sustainability by the introduction of additional financing resources, last but not least; the European studies include what EU is in nutshell; European continent, review of the European history, presentation of European cultural diversity with its multitude of languages and its vast cultural diversity. Thus, students’ group will explicitly involve the incoming young foreign students, but similarly it will be suitable for any mobility student who is traveling within/to Europe. e-Prep portal will assists, for example, how to find different study opportunities; how to locate different examinations in different educational institutions across Europe. Being aware the entrance exams are at a country; and even at a school level specific and different, the platform will promote generic information where volunteers may achieve/access such information based on resources being respectful/reliable and firm.

For achieving these concrete aims of e-Prep, an e-electronic knowledgebase will be constructed and will be tested on three diverse target groups, after which a comprehensive test/model report will be released including pilot data; so that the model will be open for future enhancement in parallel to its further development. As e-learning aims the proper/efficient future employment in almost all the cases, the real life actors, SMEs were also included in this design together with women NGOs, to bridge the project with parents. Thus, the partnership is formed by ten organizations bearing backgrounds ranging from Educational (four organizations) world, to business life representatives (four organizations) who will input “end-needs”, to women NGOs (two organizations) who will bridge the project to/with parents.

e-Prep will then be a unique model for future efforts in education/training world, so that people will concentrate in efficient preparation of whole stakeholders aiming the efficient final employment, through re-designed vocational training paths. Finally, the complete model will be then expandable and it will grow by the future developments of the idea/methodology.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 239095 Eur

Project Coordinator

Privatschule Carpe Diem GmbH & Country: DE

Project Partners

• ANKARA HACI BAYRAM VELI UNIVERSITESI
• Leean Trade Oy
• POINT PROJE INSAAT TAAHHUT MUHENDISLIK VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI
• W2G Consulting GmbH
• Zdruzenie aktivnych a talentovanych zien realizujucich fungujucu karieru – ZARIF
• TUM AVRUPA KADINLARI KULTUREL ISBIRLIGI VE DAYANISMA DERNEGI
• Hongwen Sun Europe Oy