Innovative Digital Solutions for Teachers in Times of Covid-19 Erasmus Project

Project Title

Innovative Digital Solutions for Teachers in Times of Covid-19

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

In the distance education process that started across Europe due to Covid-19, the need to increase the application capacity of education and training institutions of online, blended, distance education and training; to develop the digital pedagogical competence of educators in order to provide high quality inclusive digital education; to develop and use high quality digital content such as innovative online resources and tools has emerged.
EGLA from Finland, Izmir Provincial Directorate of National Education, ARKAS Science and Art Center, Private Gaziemir Ugur Secondary School from Turkey and Tallinna 21. Kool from Estonia have initiated a Strategic Partnership in the field of school education. The purpose of this partnership is to network among institutions across the EU, to bring together digital technology providers and experts in educational technologies and related pedagogical practices to share resources and expertise.
The total duration of the project is 24 months. LTT 1 activity will be conducted under the leadership of the Tallinna 21. Kool from Estonia. In this workshop, material development training with methods and techniques related to new approaches; Educational scenarios and interdisciplinary modeling, interactive videos, visuals, mind maps, Web tools for coding studies, distance measurement and evaluation, distance lecture materials will be produced. LTT 2 activity will be created under the leadership of the European Green Lean Association EGLA. With this LTT, our teachers will be trained on how to design and develop their own digital games. As a result of LTT, teachers will gain the competence to create their own course contents using their new digital skills and competencies. Good examples and practices will be integrated into the lessons.
In the project process, a total of three TPMs on “Quality Assessment of Digital Materials” and “Quality Assessment of Digital Game Materials” will be held in addition to the project kick-off meeting.
In LTTs to be held on “Digital Material Development” in Estonia and “Digital Game Training” in Finland, trainers from partner institutions will participate in short-term joint staff training activities. Administrators and teachers (Technologies, Science, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Applied Courses, Foreign Languages, Classroom Teachers) who have an ICT-related infrastructure, and who want to improve themselves, who will use and disseminate the information obtained during the project process in education and training activities, and who will provive with sufficient language level Information will participate in these activities. Participation criteria will be announced on the board accessible to all teachers. The final participants will be determined by one-on-one interviews with the participants by a five-person selection commission consisting of individuals from different institutions.
Our project will have four outputs.
O1 Portal
O2 Digital Materials Development, Preparation of event plans and materials
O3 Digital Education Games Development
O4 Digital Education Guide
Our project is innovative in the fields of both developing the digital competencies of teachers and producing digital course contents, lessons, distance measurement and evaluation web tools in accordance with their needs, and improving the capacity of partner institutions.
As the dissemination activity of our project, a conference will be organized by the İzmir Provincial Directorate of National Education. This event will include Teachers, Official and Private School Institution Managers, Assistants in Schools, Academicians, Parents, NGOs working on Education and Informatics, Policymakers, Written and Visual Press representatives and Foreign participants. Academicians will make thematic presentations on Digitalization in Education and Distance Learning; the project, outputs and prepared materials will be presented to the participants by the project team; In addition, teachers participating in learning, teaching and training activities will share their experiences based on their training and observations. The emphasis and program of the conference will be the dissemination and promotion of the project and the Diji-Tech e-Platform, which will be visited frequently by all European teachers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 172959 Eur

Project Coordinator

European Green Lean Association EGLA ry. & Country: FI

Project Partners

• IZMIR IL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU
• Tallinna 21. Kool
• Arkas Bilim ve Sanat Merkezi
• OZEL GAZIEMIR UGUR ORTAOKULU