Strategic partnership to develop open educational resources for teaching digital citizenship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Strategic partnership to develop open educational resources for teaching digital citizenship

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

CONTEXT
Digital citizenship aims to provide the individual with the values, attitudes, skills and knowledge to use the digital tools of today and tomorrow to participate in shaping and creating the future. Digital citizenship skills are essential for social inclusion because influence the ways and means by which information and communication technologies affect one capacity for active participation as a full member of the society.

AIM
The overall aim of the project is the promotion of digital citizenship through youth work.

OBJECTIVES
1) Improve the pedagogical skills of 80 youth workers for using the MOOC innovative methodologies developed especially for those who wish to harness the potential that digitalization represents for active citizenship of their 800 youth target group from partners countries, within 8 months
2) Develop the civic competences while protecting the online safety of 400 young people from partner countries of which 20 young people with fewer opportunities, under the guidance of 80 youth workers with increased pedagogical skills, within 11 months
3) Increasing awareness of 800 young people and 160 youth workers from partner countries about the use of innovative methodologies and MOOC citizenship education resources to promote quality developments in youth work in partner countries and Europe, within 12 months

TARGET GROUPS & NEEDS
1) youth workers (age 20+), NEED to add to their toolbox of non-formal education methods the citizenship education resources in EN and own language
2) young people (age 13-30), including those with fewer opportunities, NEED new ways of learning; there are no MOOC on digital citizenship, not with videos to provide access to people with hearing disabilities; not with assessment
3) youth leaders and youth organisations NEED to harness the potential that digitalization represents for the active participation of the young people in the society; they need support and methods to prepare youth for a digital society

CONSORTIUM
A multi-disciplinary, complementary partnership consisting of 4 NGOs from Romania, Greece, Cyprus and Germany; 21 associated partners will contribute to reaching the target groups and supporting the dissemination and sustainability of the projects.

METHODOLOGY & ACTIVITIES
We are using the EC OpenPM methodology and PMI PMBOK for managing the project. The project objectives will be achieved by completing 3 intellectual outputs:
1) IO1 – Digital Citizenship MOOC Canvas and Instructional Design Manual: Secondary (desk) and primary (questionnaire and interview) involving youth, a youth advisory board and youth workers. Using:
ASSURE model – Analyse TG needs, State Objective of IO, Select methods, Utilize media and materials, Require TG’s participation, Evaluate the final version before transferring to TGs.
ADDIE Model and Bloom taxonomy
2) IO2 – Educational Materials for digital citizenship skills based on the Merrill’s (2002) 5 principles of education. Based on IO1, we will design a Model Course and educational materials for 10 digital citizenship domains on 3 strands (Council of Europe 2016): BEING ONLINE (Access and Inclusion, Learning and Creativity, Media and Information Literacy), WELLBEING ONLINE (Ethics and Empathy, Health and Wellbeing, e-Presence and Communications) and RIGHTS ONLINE (Active Participation, Rights and Responsibilities, Privacy and Security, Consumer Awareness).
We will develop a quiz package to assess learning styles (Honey and Mumford 1986) & digital course materials in EN, DE, RO, GR in pdf, ppt, video, audio lectures under Creative Commons license.
3) IO3 – Multilingual MOOC for youth personal development in the field of digital citizenship education; will use Moodle platform to host MOOC; will design recognition badges (Wuster and Ebner 2016) and an evaluation and recognition system.
5 TPM, 4 ME, 1 LTTA, 9 dissemination and exploitation and 4 PM activities will support the main activities.

PROJECT RESULTS AND OUTCOMES
• 8 youth from the Youth Advisory Board with developed management and analytical skills
• 80 youth workers and youth leaders with improved teaching skills for non-formal digital citizenship courses
• 40 youth workers with increased capabilities of for using MOOC
• Strengthened relationships between youth workers, policy makers, partners and associated partners
• Digital citizenship promoted to target groups
• Improved capabilities of partners

IMPACT
The MOOC will reach out to youth workers at the local, regional, national level and will equip them with the competences for implementing and assessing digital citizenship education. The project will improve the recognition and will support the validation of competences acquired through non-formal learning.

LONG TERM BENEFITS
• Access of (disadvantaged) youth to quality non-formal education and recognition
• Young people empowered to become responsible digital citizens
• Youth workers equipped with a range of tools to address the needs of young people

Project Website

https://trainingclub.eu/digcit/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 198874 Eur

Project Coordinator

Asociatia TEAM 4 Excellence & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Athens Lifelong Learning Institute – Civil Non Profit Organisation
• S.E.A.L CYPRUS (CYPRUS ORGANIZATION FOR SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION AND ACTIVE LEARNING)
• Arbeitskreis Ostviertel e.V.