Educational potential of transmedia learning in the promotion of soft skills for the labour insertion of disabled university graduates Erasmus Project

Project Title

Educational potential of transmedia learning in the promotion of soft skills for the labour insertion of disabled university graduates

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Disabilities – special needs

Project Summary

The project LABOTRANS seeks to evaluate the pedagogical and educational potential of gamified transmedia, immersive and argumental, as a multidisciplinary tool TIC of educational innovation focused on the student, a stimulus of autonomous learning y transversal competencies (soft skills), for the labor integration of qualified (titled) university students facing unemployment and without access to the labor market for more than five years after their graduation.
The project will test the effectiveness of an innovative tool based in gamification and transmedia for the formation of soft skills (TRANSWORK) facing a traditional e-learning system configurated with habitual elements of a MOOC at use, focused in the formation of transversal competencies/ skills that are essential for employment. The chosen competencies/ skills have been indicated by different studies to be key points for employability, especially for the group of people who are highly unemployed, many of them considered as difficult education given their transversality. They are the following:
Thinking Skills
• Problem solving
• Creative thinking
Interpersonal skills
• Cooperation with others
• Empathy
Personal skills
• Self esteem
• Time management
In the same way they claim to enhance/ encourage, in a way transversal to them, the digital TIC competencies, as an indispensable element for employability.
Based on the above the specific objectives of the project are the following:
• Comparative analysis of the formative/ educational experiences in the education of unemployable adults in gamified systems y transmedia materials.
• Study of the inadequacies in digital and transversal skills/ competencies of the university graduates unable to access the labor market for a long duration (five years or more)
• Evaluation of the efficiency of transversal skills/ competencies in increasing labor integration of highly unemployed university graduates.
• Design of a transmedia gamified training tool capable of working cross-cutting skills difficult to tackle by current e-learning methods and comparison of formative results compared to the methodology based on standard MOOC systems.
• Monitoring and analysis of the efficiency de the educational results for the labor integration of the group formed by both systems.

The project is aimed at university graduates with high unemployment and more than five years without employment after their graduation. This target has been indicated by different study as a group of the population with high education and one that, with more than five years without access to the labor market, multiplies the possibilities of them not joining it themselves, including with levels of unemployment higher than the group of people that are unemployed without a university degree. This necessity has been answered by foundation ONCE by tracking the university graduates with disabilities/ inabilities inscribed in their data base of job seekers.
On the other hand, from inGenio Labs and Transmedia Storytelling Ltd. They have conducted corresponding experiments of educational digital resources (gamified web, transmedia tools, audiovisual education, etc.) focused in adult education, nevertheless, both organizations have detected the necessity to develop this type of resource directly aimed at the specific characteristics of the adult group that’s unemployed, adapted to different types of unemployment and enhancing soft skills a lot, something unhabitual in digital formation. In actuality, the prevailing weakness of the MOOC, as it has been proven by FUNDEN in theirs, has been revealed by recent work/ studies about online learning, noting that in those participants they seem to be disoriented, overloaded, with low probability of interaction and low possibilities of efficiently addressing more complicated competencies such as self-esteem or personal motivation (Calderon, Ezeiza y Jimeno, 2013), both key competencies for employability and of major importance in cases of groups of unable people.
The transnational realization of the project is proposed to assess the independence of the formative (educational) results of the respective cultural characteristics or similarities that affect the group of unemployed university graduates, especially paying attention to these. At the same time a proposed approach to the new educative tool from different labor markets, with specific needs and demands, focused in the betterment of the weak educational results of the MOOC. The trans national completion of the project configures itself, with that in mind, the best way to test the efficiency of the proposed innovative method for a group in high risk of exclusion.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 124026,75 Eur

Project Coordinator

FUNDACION EMPRESA UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE DE LA COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• PANEPISTIMIO THESSALIAS
• UNIVERSITATEA VASILE ALECSANDRI DIN BACAU
• inGenio Labs Innovación Educativa
• FUNDACION ONCE PARA LA COOPERACIONE INCLUSION SOCIAL DE PERSONAS CONDISCAPACIDAD
• Transmedia Storyteller Ltd
• ISOB INSTITUT FUR SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTLICHE BERATUNG GMBH