STRIDE – STRategIes for the Digital Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

STRIDE – STRategIes for the Digital Education

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Project STRIDE “STRategIes for Digital Education” aimed at fostering the use of ICT in schools, in accordance with the Erasmus+ priority “open and innovative education”. Thus its main purpose was to help the schools of the partnership to implement their own national plans for the Digital School in order to start the process of digitization under the direction of experts. The project contributed to a systemic change of the teaching methods, making them more innovative, improving the teaching quality and to raising awareness in schools, public entities, and local communities about the importance of the use of ICT in educational activities. The partners were:
– IISP “Rosario Livatino”: public school: leader
– Consorzio RoMa (IT): Vocational training center: monitoring and evaluation
– University of Bremen (DE)–ITB: research center highly experienced in innovation and use of the new technologies at school: training for teachers
– Inercia Digital S.L. (ES): SME with great competence in the use of web 2.0: dissemination
– GRETB–Galway Technical Institute (IE): public school, specialized in the use of ICT
– Erdem Bayazit Anadolu Lisesi (TR): public school
– Szkoła Podstawowa w Jankowie Przygodzkim (PL): public school.
Each partner was responsible for the different tasks fixed in the programme:
IISP: Project management; identification of areas of interest for the platform; pilots of digitizations of schools
EBAL: Focus groups; feedback about characteristics of the Community
GRETB: Identification of best practices
SPJP: Identification of resources of best practices
Inercia: Dissemination; Community implementation and promotion; JSTE, use of ICT
ITB: Definition of a methodological framework for a digitization strategy; implementation of the training path; JSTE, digitization strategy; development of OER
Consorzio: Monitoring and evaluation; systematization of the training path.
The project established the development of two intellectual outputs:
IO1, training path for the definition of strategies for the digitization of schools; it aims at improving teachers and headmasters’ competences and is about:
– Definition of best practices
– Sharing among experts and target group
– Definition of training contents
– Training delivery
– Pilots.
A Join Staff Training Event was scheduled at the ITB; it lasted 5 days and focused on the following topics:
– ICT Basics
– Work Organisation: e-learning and traditional learning; BYOD; to create courses, communicate with and engage students into an e-learning platform;
– Teaching and Learning: authoring for video and audio; sharing through a cloud-based service; risks of publishing on the Internet; multimedia lessons and digital contents; to use, safely, social networks; new tools and resources in teaching/training; to renew contents using external sources; OER
– Data Security: Copyright; benefits of open licenses; to use or adapt external resources
– Strategy development: Strategy issues; mission, vision, and values
– Organization: SWOT analysis; dimensions of strategies
– Construction; operational planning: phases of strategy implementation; feasibility.

IO2, web community platform. It allows a large number of people to use the training path and ensures the life-long upgrading required for the development of innovative strategies, to keep pace with the progress and the educational needs.

For a better result of the project, other actors were involved who greatly contributed to the development and dissemination of the different activities. Students, teachers, technicians took part in focus groups, best practices implementation, pilot systematization, and training courses. Local administrations and companies for the Dual Training System supported the development of the digitization strategy.
The project contributed to change resistant teaching habits.
Regular transnational meetings took place, to coordinate and plan future tasks, monitor progresses, share experiences and evaluate results.
A wide audience was constantly updated through newsletters, newspapers, partners’ websites, social networks, and external meetings.
Multiplier Events were organized by each partner at the presence of headmasters, teachers, and administrative managers from other schools and universities, representatives of local administration. They contributed to the dissemination of the developed digital strategy, the platform, and the Community.
MEs had two parts: in the first part, participants were acquainted with the project results and some implementing policies; in the second part, workshops were organized to experience the new digital method; guests learned about new educational strategies, digital tools, and open-source e-learning platforms.
MEs were a starting point to build a new vision of the digital education era where long-life learning is to be ever-lasting in all aspects of life, formal and informal.
We hope that the implemented digital strategy will really affect teaching methods in schools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 294532 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Professionale Rosario Livatino & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Erdem Bayazit Anadolu Lisesi
• Szkola Podstawowa im. Powstancow Wielkopolskich w Jankowie Przygodzkim
• Galway and Roscommon Education & Training Board
• UNIVERSITAET BREMEN
• INERCIA DIGITAL SL
• Consorzio Ro.Ma.