Strategies for Teaching in a Digital Era Erasmus Project

Project Title

Strategies for Teaching in a Digital Era

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Research and innovation; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

Digital tools, social media and ICT are everywhere in the daily life of our students. Digital teaching is shaping the world heading into 2030, but how will teachers effectively use digital tools to provide future generations with digitally-critical thinking skills that help them meet the challenges of an unknown future? The teaching methods used by teachers may not be effective if they aren’t based on a solid pedagogical understanding, and so our STDE Project Proposal aims to ensure the best use of technology in teaching, based on a solid understanding of pedagogy and careful consideration of changing demands, devised through a carefully designed methodology and teacher training programme.

The vast majority of students are digital natives, while most of their parents and teachers are digital immigrants (Prensky,2001), although 35% of educators believe they are good role models for the use of technology (Instefjord-Munthe,2017). However, there is a gap between the current use of ICT in the classroom and the expectations of students and other digital natives. Therefore, the overall objective of Strategies for Teaching in a Digital Era (STDE) is to contribute towards tackling the socio-economic changes that face Europe and to support the implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy.

Our cross-sectoral partnership structure adds much value to the project. The partners consist of a regional Education Authority, University, and technology school (TR) an NGO (AU), and VET Colleges (UK, DK). Dudley College will manage project compliance, while the new STDE methodology will be developed by academicians at Boğaziçi University (BU), who will also produce a Guide Book as an intellectual output. ATEMPO (an NGO working in the field of adult education) will develop training modules to introduce the new methodology to 18 teachers from partner institutions, who will then become Digital Coaches (having been trained via 3 short term training activities to transfer the methodology to teachers from the six partners).These teachers will teach their students using the new methodology and prepare portfolios which will be uploaded on an onlıne platform; academicians will then evaluate the results.revising them where necessary.TEC will be responsible for the quality management of the project. All the activities, outputs and results will be uploaded on the STDE online platform, an open education resource for dissemination, valorisation and sustainability. An International Conference will be held by the university as a Multiplier Event. KDNE will be responsible for the management of dissemination and valorisation. During the two-year project lifetime each partner will participate in at least 3 international/national events, thereby increasing dissemination.

Digital methodological systems equip teachers/trainers with strategic digital teaching skills so that they equip their students with a wide range of life skills, enabling them to interact between digital and human/DIGIMEN culture and to cast a vision of a better living environment in the multicultural digital era. For the common future of European nations, common education strategies will be developed by this cross-sectoral strategic partnership, which creates synergy to support the 2020 Strategy of the Commission. This is necessary, as young students will go on to structure society around SOCIO-TECHNOLOGICAL interaction with the internet of things or robotics with artificial intelligence; and have the ability to analyse big data, and to produce and consume virtual/augmented reality in various sectors. The project supports the Commission’s Improving and Modernising Education strategy.

In addition to the planned sustainability activities, the project partners see the strategic partnership as an important opportunity to launch a network titled EducationRD’r BDA (Educational research and development for big data analysis), with activities aligning to the evolution of new technologies.

The STDE Project Proposal will be funded by Erasmus+ and achieve its overall objectives over 24 months of activities. At the end of the project, valuable information will be produced by the cross-sectoral partnership and added to the database of the Erasmus+ Program, thereby supporting policy making procedures. The Project will include actions that promote innovative pedagogies and methods for teaching, learning and assessment, and that support educators and learners to use digital technologies in creative, collaborative and efficient ways as mentioned in Program Guide 2019.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 294615 Eur

Project Coordinator

Dudley College of Technology & Country: UK

Project Partners

• BOGAZICI UNIVERSITESI
• TEC, TECHNICAL EDUCATION COPENHAGENS/I
• ATEMPO BETRIEBSGESELLSCHAFT MBH
• Karamursel Ilce Milli Egitim Mudurlugu
• Özel Çekmeköy Teknoloji ve Insan Koleji Lisesi