Mobile virtuelle Lernräume zur individuellen Unterstützung von jungen Menschen mit schweren Erkrankungen Erasmus Project

Project Title

Mobile virtuelle Lernräume zur individuellen Unterstützung von jungen Menschen mit schweren Erkrankungen

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Access for disadvantaged; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Young people with serious and/or chronic illnesses or psychiatric problems often have to interrupt the “normal” education, the traditional learning pathways. They are disadvantaged in education and need special support to assert their rights to school education, to obtain educational qualifications and skills for the labour market.
In Austria and Germany they are supported by sanatorium schools (AT) and schools for the sick (DE), in the administrative district of Detmold (NRW) and in the education region of Linz (AT) they are also supported by offers with special pedagogical concepts and new technologies (ICT).
In the administrative district of Detmold there is the JuLe programme (young people with interrupted learning paths) with the so-called MokoDESKs (mobile cooperative desks). The guiding idea is the individual support of the pupils in a blended learning concept, on the one hand via ICT support via the virtual learning room MokoDESK and on the other hand with learning guidance by permanently seconded permanent teachers of different school types and subjects.
In Linz, children in hospitals were supported through the IICC projects (Ill and Isolated Children Connected) with creative workshops, multimedia learning methods (e.g. photography, Lego Robotics) and especially “Game Based Learning” (game-supported learning, computer games in the classroom), which are intended to give the young people in the hospital fun of learning again.

The eight partner organisations in Austria and Germany complemented each other ideally: The coordinating v. Bodelschwinghschen Foundations are – like the district government of Detmold and the regional school board for Upper Austria – school authorities or The PH Linz and the University of Paderborn, which also took over the evaluation of the project, are in charge of the development of innovative ICT-supported teaching concepts; the BFI e.V. is the interest group for affected children, adolescents and their parents and also the sponsor of the virtual school JuLe.

In the MoviLe project, they were able to exchange their skills and experience in target group-specific didactics and the use of ICT. The new findings led to pedagogical, didactic and technical adaptations of the concepts, which were tested with young people with psychiatric and psychosomatic indications. The Austrian partners were particularly impressed by the individualised teaching concept and the use of the virtual learning room MokoDESK. The German participants were particularly stimulated by the close integration of therapy and hospital school as well as by the inclusion of game based learning, creative and multimedia offerings at the Linz partners. Both have used the project to reflect on their didactic concept and will continue to pursue the new approaches in the future.
It became clear that MoviLe leads to an improvement in the educational situation of disadvantaged young people: Our concepts and measures motivate young people to learn, to (re)enjoy “school” and at the same time introduce them to an appropriate level of education. In addition to motivation and reducing resistance, our measures build up learning competence so that there are better learning outcomes and thus better integration into the education system is achieved. Our work therefore leads to a significant increase in their educational opportunities.

In addition, we have strengthened the cooperation of the participants in discussions, conferences, publications, conferences and at our own MoviLe symposium and made our concept known to other institutions and target groups: The adaptation of the online learning concept of the MokoDESK and its use for travelling pupils has meanwhile been tackled. The school for circus children is interested in using the MokoDESK as part of “Abi-Online”. The Linzer HIS (Höhere Schule im Spital), a hospital school for the secondary level II and for pupils aged 16 to 18 who are not required to attend school, is specifically interested in the use of the MokoDESK due to its goal. The same applies to the school for the sick in the district of Minden-Lübbecke in Ostwestfalen-Lippe with a focus on oncology. For children and young people who have to live isolated due to somatic illnesses such as cancer, school supervision via the MokoDESK is ideal.
Last but not least, the Austrian MoviLe partner, the Heilstättenschule Linz-Neuromed, played a leading role in applying for the Erasmus+ Best Practice project “digi.LIKE – Digital Learning in Hospital Facilities” in March 2019, which aims to improve the education of seriously ill young people in Germany, Austria and Bulgaria.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 77575 Eur

Project Coordinator

v. Bodelschwinghsche Stiftungen Bethel – Stiftung Bethel – Stiftungsbereich Schulen & Country: DE

Project Partners

• BFIEV
• Bildungsdirektion Oberösterreich
• Heilstättenschule Linz
• PRIVATE PADAGOGISCHE HOCHSCHULE DER DIOZESE LINZ
• BEZIRKSREGIERUNG DETMOLD
• Dothanschule Schule für Kranke
• UNIVERSITAET PADERBORN