e-Media Education Lab : un laboratoire en ligne sur le développement des compétences en éducation aux médias pour les enseignants en formation initiale et continue Erasmus Project

Project Title

e-Media Education Lab : un laboratoire en ligne sur le développement des compétences en éducation aux médias pour les enseignants en formation initiale et continue

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 addressing more than one field

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

e-Media Education lab : an online laboratory for the development of media literacy skills for teachers in initial and in-service training.

Media literacy has become a key competence in our modern society. It raises awareness about media issues and media creativity of students. However we note that its implementation in the compulsory education is highly variable from one country to another, from one education system to another and from one school group to another.
This can partly be explained by the lack of support and training for teachers in term of media literacy competencies development.

This is why the project e-Media Education lab (e-MEL) aimed to create innovative training strategies for teachers, both initial and in-service training in order to reinforce their media education competences. It’s the fruitful collaboration of seven research or teachers training centers (initial or in service) in media education : Média Animation asbl (BE), Institut des Hautes Etudes des Communications Sociales – IHECS (BE), Tampereen Yliopisto – UTA (FIN), Centre de Liaison de l’Enseignement et des Médias d’Information – CLEMI (FR), Università degli Studi Firenze – UNIFI (IT), Universidade do Minho (PT), UCL – Institute of Education (UK).

During three years, between September 2014 and August 2017, the European project e-MEL achieved the main following results:

− A European Media education competencies framework mapping the competencies of media education and media literacy for teachers across Europe ;
− A catalogue of 21 training scenarios abstracts exploring media environment and developing media education competences with teachers in initial or in-service training ;
− The experimentation of 10 training scenario combining face-to-face and e-learning sessions with more than 300 teachers of future teachers in order to develop or reinforce their media education competences ;
− The development in open educational resource of the hub platform e-mediaeducationlab.eu for trainers in media literacy to implement and experiment innovative training strategies in order to enrich their teaching practices in media literacy ;
− A european roadshow across Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, Finland and United-Kingdom to disseminate the opportunity of this online environment and for making teachers trainers aware about media education challenges for our contemporary societies.

In this resource center www.e-Mediaeducationlab.eu, any teachers trainer in Europe would find :

– The Media education competencies framework
– 10 training scenarios developing media education and media literacy competences through several topics
– Online activities developed into Moodle format ready to be reviewed and exported to other e-learning platforms
– An evaluation toolkit composed by media literacy evaluation methodologies and examples of evaluation exercises related to each training scenario.
– A map of media education teachers’trainers across Europe
– Project documentation with the main outcomes of the eMEL project.

Through this project, a first European network of media education trainers has been initiated to reflect on the challenges of the training of teachers or future teachers but also to equip them with the methods and contents of a media literacy. And this, in the long-term perspective, of a better anchoring of the media education within the school system thus favoring the acquisition of these competences by the children and the young people themselves. It is a position of citizen critical and active for everyone who is in the end strengthened.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 356181,86 Eur

Project Coordinator

SERVICE MEDIA – ANIMATION & Country: BE

Project Partners

• UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO
• TAMPEREEN YLIOPISTO
• HAUTE ECOLE GALILEE
• RESEAU CANOPE
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE
• Institute of Education,university of london