Tablets for classroom differentiation and inclusion Erasmus Project

Project Title

Tablets for classroom differentiation and inclusion

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Pedagogy and didactics; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Tablio was a 30-month Erasmus+ KA2-project which aimed for realizing educational innovation by integrating tablets for classroom differentiation and inclusion.

The Tablio-project developed a design toolkit, demonstrator examples and design templates for ‘Inclusive Education’ by means of tablets. Inclusive education is about how to develop and design schools, classrooms, programs and teaching & learning activities so that all students learn and participate together (www.inclusionbc.org). Differentiation is a key strategy for the achievement of inclusive education. 24 good practices were described by interviewing teachers in European schools. 12 new pedagogical arrangements were developed throughout the project by the application of teacher design teams and the ADDIE-instructional design method. All practices were validated by peer reviews in which we analysed the practices through the perspective of the theoretical framework of the design toolkit. This toolkit and framework was developed by performing desk-research, focus groups, workshops and collaborative writing activities. The outputs are collected on the website http://tablio.eu. The English and Dutch outputs were also bundled in an e-book with ISBN-number. All outputs are available under a creative commons license on the project website and on the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform. The outputs are multilingual. Besides English, outputs are available in Dutch, Slovenian, Turkish and Italian.

7 partners in 6 countries participated in the Tablio-project: PXL University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Belgium – lead partner), Institut za Napredno Upravljanje Komunikacij, (Slovenia), Istanbul University (Turkey), iXperium Centre of Expertise Teaching and Learning with ICT (Netherlands), TELLConsult (Netherlands), North-West Regional College (Northern-Ireland) and CESIE (Italy). These organisations were a mix of expertise centers linked to teacher education, expertise centers specialised in design thinking, differentiation or inclusion and expertise centers in ICT-integration in education.

20 multiplier events were organized with an explicit focus on transferring the innovative approaches to the classrooms of the participants. Hence, several new approaches resulted from the multiplier events. Also other dissemination activities were carried out by presenting the outputs on European conferences and by the publication of articles. Communication was done in newsletter and on several social media. The project ended with a communication campaign in which we did daily Tablio-updates on social media in the month of May 2019 sharing the good practices developed during the 30 months.

We impacted the project staff with a higher expertise level in educational innovation with tablets and differentiation and inclusion. We realised innovations in the schools that participated in the teacher design teams and the multiplier events, in favour of the pupils that benefit from a more inclusive education. Through active participation at more than 30 conferences, through newsletters and social media communication we impacted a wide community of European teachers and other educational stakeholders.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 334827,08 Eur

Project Coordinator

Hogeschool PXL & Country: BE

Project Partners

• Institut za napredno upravljanje komunikacij, Miklavz na Dravskem polju
• CESIE
• STICHTING HOGESCHOOL VAN ARNHEM ENNIJMEGEN HAN
• Technology Enhanced Lifelong Learning Consult
• NORTH WEST REGIONAL COLLEGE
• ISTANBUL UNIVERSITESI – CERRAHPASA