DEveloping DAta Literacy courses for University Students Erasmus Project

Project Title

DEveloping DAta Literacy courses for University Students

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 higher 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; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Recognition, transparency, certification

Project Summary

DEDALUS – DEveloping DAta Literacy courses for University Students is aiming to equip students with the necessary competences to cope with future digital challenges and to create an additional value for the enterprises and industries where they would be employed. It will do so by developing an innovative modular, open and online learning curriculum to include data literacy competences in any study field. At the same time, through the CPD qualification for HE professionals it will develop the digital competences of educators, enabling them to transfer such competences in their practice.
Data literacy is a cross-cutting competence which is relevant in all disciplines since data are used in a multitude of domains and future entrepreneurs, regardless of the type of business they wish to run, need to deal with data and analytics to make quicker and more brilliant decisions and to get the most from business intelligence solutions. At the same data literacy is a difficult concept, since the required knowledge, skills and attitudes related to it are dependent on the context and so is the competence level. Indeed, courses and certification paths available on the market, as well as in universities are only scattered approaches that are lacking a convincing learning and study trajectory oriented towards a competence framework which maps the competences along the requirements of the study domain and the future field of application. This again would increase the employability of the students since their expertise could be better identified.
The business sector, in turn, lacks a proper understanding of what digitalization means and which requirements it has to face in terms of expertise to cope with future challenges.

DEDALUS will develop and pilot an approach to tackle this issues based on a long-term partnership of educational partners who have either worked in digital literacy and digital education projects or on competence oriented learning and validation of non-formal and informal learning.

On the basis of a sound stocktaking on successful approaches on how to include data literacy in university programmes, it will set up a framework of competences on data literacy, taking in due consideration also the demand of the business sector. Then, a modular learning and training approach will be developed using high quality blended learning approaches combining face-to face, e-learning and practical learning on the job. The learning and training offers will also be delivered on state of the art learning technologies which will offer contents, courses, e-portfolios and validation interfaces as open educational resources (OER).
The DEDALUS course and modules will involve more than 20 HE professionals that will then pilot the approach in 5 different universities and study domanis across Europe. Finally, an implementation strategy and an experience report will be developed, where HE staff across Europe will find details of possible implementation scenarios to include permanently data literacy in academic offers.
Well-proven validation approaches will be applied to assess and evidence learning. Competences will be validated and connected to European validation and certification instruments.

The partnership is consisting of 5 HEIs from UK, LT, ES, RS and IT which cover a large geographical scope and a number of cross-cutting disciplines. In particular, HEI from Serbia will secure the transfer to the Balkan countries which need a culture shift towards data literacy and digital education. The partnership is led by the largest Italian Research Centre on Digital Education Technologies and is completed by a SME with a large network working in the data educational domain and a European cooperative with a large European network in the field of competence oriented learning and validation.

Project Website

http://dedalus.pa.itd.cnr.it/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 287338,4 Eur

Project Coordinator

CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE & Country: IT

Project Partners

• VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
• BLENDED LEARNING INSTITUTIONS COOPERATIVE
• UNIVERSIDAD DE ALCALA
• UNIVERZITET U NOVOM SADU
• UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
• DATANINJA SOCIETA A RESPONSABILITA LIMITATA SEMPLIFICATA