Mobile & Digital Elearning Toolkit Erasmus Project

Project Title

Mobile & Digital Elearning Toolkit

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

CONTEXT/BACKGROUND: MODERN explores the premise that there are significant barriers to the full exploitation of mobile and digital resources in adult education. Despite a rapid proliferation of cloud-based educational tools, platforms and learning environments, the quality of same is extremely varied. The partners concurred with the UK’s Innovation Agency NESTA’s Decoding Learning (2012) report that notes that the field “is characterised by weak or undeveloped pedagogy” and by tools which “put technology above teaching and excitement above evidence.”

OBJECTIVES: MODERN is highly innovative in terms of its strategic focus. Mainstream digital technology has matured sufficiently so as to allow MODERN to usefully rate tools that exist today rather than creating new ones, and focus on embedding these tools in sound pedagogical theory in order to increase the confidence and skills of teachers’ to use them. This is the first time that such an approach has been taken at European level and this core innovation is complemented by a series of additional innovative features of the project.

PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS – 6 organsations

Canice Consulting (CC), (project lead/co-ordinator) is an established private company based in Northern Ireland which operates in the fields of local and regional development, enterprise education and management and technical support to EU networks and programmes. The company has developed particular specialisms in online learning development. Services include Training Solutions, eLearning content creation, learning technologies and learning strategy design and consulting. Learning Technologies include Learning Portals, Learning Management Systems, Content Development Systems, Performance Support tools, Virtual Classroom tools and more.

Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV)- One of Europe’s top 50 new universities, UPV is a public university offering modern, flexible degree courses designed to meet the demands of society. 36,000+ graduate and post graduate students interact with more than 5,000 members of teaching, research and administrative staff across 14 faculties, while the Lifelong Learning centre has an enrolment of more than 80,000 students.

Momentum Marketing Services (MMS) is an Irish training organisation focused on developing progressive vocational education programmes and platforms to enable entrepreneurs, employees and young people entering the world of work to participate as fully as possible in the contemporary labour market.

UNIWERSYTET SZCZECINSKI (US) Szczecin University has emerged as the leading HEI in West Pomerania, Poland. In total it has over 30,000 students in full-time, evening and part-time studies in 27 subjects in 13 faculties. The university maintains close ties to the private sector and local enterprises as well as cultivating international cooperation, an essential element of raising the quality standards of research and teaching.

EfVET is a European-wide professional association which has been created by and for providers of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in all European countries. Its mission is to champion and enrich technical and vocational education and training through transnational co-operation by building a pan-European network of institutions and practitioners.

EUCEN, the European Association for University Lifelong Learning, is the largest European multidisciplinary Association in University Lifelong Learning. Founded in 1991, it is registered in Belgium as an international non-profit making organisation and has 195 members from 36 different countries.

MAIN ACTIVITIES/RESULTS/IMPACT
In terms of impact, the MODERN project deliverables target specific groups: –
• Teaching staff in Vocational Education and Training
• Teaching staff of Higher Education institutes
• Managers, curricula advisors and policy makers working in VET and HE
• Representatives from the software and app developers industries

IO1 Audit of Digital and Interactive Learning Resources

IO2 Pedagogic Assessment of the top 23 Modern tools is complete and available online on the project website.

IO3 is a very practical Toolkit which takes learners through a 5-step process to getting started with the top 23 Modern Tools.

IO4 Innovative Teaching Course Curriculum entailed the development of a short course to motivate/guide educators to pursue more innovative pedagogic strategies using mobile and digital elearning resources

IO5 take the curriculum from IO4 and turns it into a short e-learning course to motivate/guide educators to pursue more innovative pedagogic strategies using mobile and digital elearning resources. Uniquely, each module of the course will be taught using a different platform, thus integrating learning outcomes with the delivery mechanism.

Allof the above resources are available and free to use on www.modern.pm in the three project partner language – English, Polish and Spanish.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 201280,4 Eur

Project Coordinator

CANICE CONSULTING LIMITED & Country: UK

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA
• UNIWERSYTET SZCZECINSKI
• MOMENTUM MARKETING SERVICES LIMITED
• EUROPEAN FORUM OF TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES CONTINUING EDUCATION NETWORK