ACCelerating future EDucation online – in the time of Virus Erasmus Project

Project Title

ACCelerating future EDucation online – in the time of Virus

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

ACCelerating future EDucation online – in the time of Virus
The concept of traditional education has changed radically in recent years and especially in this global situation of the virus. The physically present teacher in a classroom is no longer the only learning option. Currently, students can access quality education as long as they have access to a computer. We can say that we are now entering a new era – the online education revolution. And the teachers, it means they can teach from anywhere, but the most important thing is to be prepared for it.
Most teachers are focused on teaching techniques, curriculum materials, and test scores. Teachers focus on what the students learn and not on the real needs of the students.
One of the things that have more impact on the “teaching-learning process” is the skill of the teacher to cope with the teaching skills on the new paradigm required, moving into online scenarios and how to transform the school curriculum into an online system.
The project works teaching the teacher to facilitate this empowerment process through different frameworks to address the educational online challenges.

We need teachers capable of generating a shared mindset of interaction teachers/students together, at another level in education that is one of the changes in the future educational system that moved from one day to another from the classroom into virtual rooms. There was no planning.
Both teachers and students need to adapt to it. The project focuses on addressing the actual changes happening at both ends, teachers and students.
One of the things that have more impact on this new scenario “teaching-learning process” are the skills needed for the teachers to introduce the changes they need to teach online today and when they return to normal how to integrate both systems
The ACCED project works teaching the teacher to facilitate this empowerment process through different online Agile frameworks such as SCRUM, KANBAN, LEGO SERIOUS PLAY, NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION and new ICT skills including ZOOM/VIMEO/SLACK

The virus scenario generated a new unexpected educational resilience for teachers. The project addresses and implements solutions working with a pool of schools, universities and training centers. The project involves seven partners from the educational sector including schools, Universities, NGO and Foundation working on innovation programs.
The ACCED project focuses on implementing a specific training program, a methodology and a certification to validate the training during the project implementation phase and beyond to grant sustainability and impact. Three of the partners influence directly their education system, while private partners see in this training a new area of development.
The project addresses the needs of teachers and by extension their students, the need to “learn to learn”, to develop critical thinking, communication skills, working on teams, emotions management, transformative leadership, negotiation, citizenship among other soft skills. To develop that skills are the role of the actual teachers because the information is on the Internet and students know this, and the Internet knows more than the teachers.
Moreover, the Agile framework enables teachers to work differently, it will speed up the learning process on the student side, and it will show fast delivery results since the creation of knowledge, implementation and testing happens in a very short period delivering incremental value on each sprint (Unit of time to deliver). Once the result is delivered a retrospective is done giving the chance to understand what can be improved.
The results of the ACCED project are:
The Research Report
Agile matrix identifying teachers and potential Agile mindset implementation
ACCED Training program:
-flexible enough to be adapted to any educational sector
-designing new educational lessons with SCRUM-KANBAN framework
-using Business Model Teachers and Design Thinking applied to in-service training, so trained teachers in the Agile Mindset can train on the cascade after the certification
Toolkit on how to implement the online classes using new frameworks (Agile, ZOOM, Vimeo), a set of transversal activities of good practices
BrickME Teachers Certification
15 case studies
34 teachers trained as a ring of mentors and 90 teachers trained in cascade through a series of workshops in partner countries
Extensive documentation for the MOOC 4.0 (Videos, templates, images)
The SLACK teachers’ network
Information is not the relevant point in the education of students in the schools, participation in the learning is. In an industrial-age classroom, with a teacher-centred/teacher-directed, one-size-fits-all approach, the mindset is not Agile. The roles are defined: It is the teacher’s job to create memorable lessons, and the student’s responsibility to remember them whether or not they are memorable.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 180100 Eur

Project Coordinator

Asociatia Centrul European pentru Integrare Socioprofesionala ACTA & Country: RO

Project Partners

• IES La Puebla
• Istituto Magistrale Statale “C.Lorenzini”
• European Education & Learning Institute
• TARTU ULIKOOL
• Stichting for Education on Agility Liberating Structures
• colegiul national emanuil gojdu