Next Generation Digital Learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

Next Generation 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 : 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: Open and distance learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

France is the coordinator; schools from Portugal, Turkey, Croatia, and a local public body from Turkey are the partners of the “Next Generation Digital Learning” project. The project will continue for 24 months.
Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic has harmed all the world and forced every country into education with the help of digital tools. Teachers, schools, and governments haven’t been ready for sudden and rapid progress of this pandemic. Many teachers and students haven’t known how to use digital tools, prepare digital materials, and the distance education process efficiently. Our institutions and teachers are not ready for the distance education process, and they do not have the digital skills required by the 21st century. For these reasons, our objectives are:
-To recognize new generation teaching tools through collaboration and partnership, to share good practices on how to use these teaching tools, and to integrate new generation learning/teaching tools into educational programs.
-To enable individuals to receive education regardless of time and place by using communication tools.
-To develop the competencies of institutions to use synchronous and asynchronous distance education tools.
-To strengthen cooperation and network among institutions.
-Minimizing educational inequalities in terms of access to technology.
-Ensuring that students actively participate in the distance education process and use information and communication technologies effectively in the learning-teaching process.
The target audience of the project is educational institutions, students aged 7-17, teachers, academicians, teacher candidates and education administrators. The total number of participants of the LTTAs is 60, and 8 for the TPM.
Major project activities are: observing the integration of creativity-blended web tools, seminars, workshops, preparing innovative digital materials and content with web tools, mutual experience sharing presentations, class visits, eTwinning online events, Digital Teacher Summit, digital classroom management/tracking tools applications, virtual classroom practices, multiplier events, etc.
The basis of the project management is regular communication with partners, internal coordination of partner institutions and coordination of all partners. For this reason, each partner institution will held a meeting every month, after evaluating the activities, it focuses on the next work. The online meetings, which are scheduled every two months, provide a discussion platform to resolve the problems and find solutions as well as evaluation. The follow-up and implementation on time of the Workplan by each institution is important in terms of achieving the goals and results of the project.
The expected results are: Cooperation between institutions will be strengthened and our network will expand. Teachers will learn to use web tools in distance education, develop content, materials, and assessment-evaluation tools for online education, integrate 21st-century digital skills into education models they will grasp. Educational institutions will be able to manage virtual classroom applications successfully. Students who cannot benefit from educational tools during the pandemic process will have access to at least one of a wide variety of educational tools so educational inequalities will be reduced. Institutions will strengthen their technological infrastructure capacity, redesign their teaching strategies in line with the needs of staff and students.
Impact:
Digital literacy of the participants will improve and their competence in producing innovative digital materials and content using different web tools will increase. Students and teachers in the target group can gain high qualifications by using these skills not only during the project but also in the future. Students who do not have access to technology will benefit from equal opportunity. Institutions will fill the gap created by the negative effects of the Covid-19 process with more experienced personnel and effective strategies. The project will attract the attention and interest of education managers/education inspectorates.
Innovative digital materials and content produced by the partnership will be used by students and teachers as open education resources in partner institutions as classroom and distance learning materials and they will be permanent in Moodle. As a result of the knowledge and skills they will gain during the project, the colleagues in the partner institutions will continue to develop, increase, and use these resources after the project ends.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 159189 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE DU DIADEME – TE TARA O MAI’AO & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Osnovna skola Vrgorac
• Saadettin Bey ilkokulu
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Resende
• CINAR ILCE MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU