AdUlts, Data and emerging IDentities Erasmus Project

General information for the AdUlts, Data and emerging IDentities Erasmus Project

AdUlts, Data and emerging IDentities Erasmus Project
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Project Title

AdUlts, Data and emerging IDentities

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

BACKGROUND
Adults should learn to appreciate the relevance of data, both data they provide and data they receive. They should learn how to validate incoming data and evaluate when to provide and validate outgoing data. Crucially, they should understand the relationship between validated data and identity. They should learn when loose data starts being more than that – when they become building blocks of an identity. For adults it is hard to grasp this relationship, as the identity emerges from ever more validated data. The emergent character of identity should be made clear to adults to enable them to understand the importance of loose data. They should not just be taught what to do and what not to do but they should internalize the reasons why.

OBJECTIVES
-Create a new curriculum in which adult educators will empower a conscious, creative and critical stance by adults as evolving responsible civilians towards online media.
-Validate new methodologies and personalised strategies as an essential component of the new training programme.
-Deliver the curriculum through a Learning Motivation Environment
-Create an international network to co-create, evaluate and help promote the new curriculum to European Educators and adults.

PARTICIPANTS
The partnership involved a municipality actively supporting the digital up-skilling of its inhabitants, a software house, an educational technology specialist with experience in Online Identities, an adult university focusing on seniors, 2 EU-wide networks with strong digital learning background and an adult training organisation focusing on ICT-related issues.

ACTIVITIES
– Iteratively designed and implemented a training program for adults as Internet users and educators to empower adults and make them more resilient to dangers from online identities.
– Designed a training methodology to address the most representative users as identified by the project and a curriculum to empower conscious, creative and critical stance by adults as evolving responsible civilians towards online media.
– Designed and developed a Dynamic Demonstrator to display in a visual way how random data can progressively manifest to the building blocks of an emerging online identity to enhance comprehension
– Transcribed the curriculum to interactive multimedia resources using instructional design and micro-learning principles and delivered it in a Learning Motivation Environment.
– Validated the outputs through a series of workshops providing feedback to be integrated in each subsequent iteration until the completion of the project following a pilot period.

METHODOLOGY
– Using as input results of relevant research defined the User Profiles in terms of individual characteristics and Internet usage behaviour.
– Validated the risky behaviours in a survey with adult users and adult trainers to finalise the User Profiles.
– Designed a training methodology for adults and a curriculum aiming to enhance critical thinking while online based on peer learning, reflection and micro-learning.
-Modeled the curriculum inside a Learning Motivation Environment (LME)
– Designed a dynamic demonstrator which displayed in a purely visual way how random data made public can slowly manifest to the building blocks of an emerging online identity.
The methodology was iterative and 3 iterations were implemented in total with feedback from each iteration driving the work on the outcomes of the next iteration.

RESULTS
– Training Methodology, Curriculum and Trainer’s Guide
– Online Delivery Environment and Dynamic Demonstrator
– AUDID Open Badges Framework for skills and achievements recognition
– AUDID Academy

IMPACT
– Enhanced awareness among adults (especially 55+,women) in relation to risks associated with online identities and subsequently make the Internet a safer place
– Increased trust of adults (who are also consumers) in online activities and subsequently facilitate the growth of e-Commerce.
– Mobilised local government towards the issue in order to help spread the message in local communities that abstaining from the use of Internet is not a solution and there are ways to protect ourselves.
– Brought focus on training and knowledge dissemination initiatives dealing with issues which are important for European citizens in order to enjoy a normal life and function in the society.

LONG TERM BENEFITS
Through the development of the AUDID Academy (a dedicated virtual space accessible through the project website) the project proposed to move towards a standard-based approach that is able to bring coordination, consistency and coherence to the improvement of adult training on issues which are important for a functional society.
By achieving its objectives the project can contribute to the fight against digital exclusion, improve quality of life, social participation and cohesion but also to growth by helping boost safe online sales.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 215410,7 Eur

Project Coordinator

VISOKA POSLOVNA SKOLA PAR & Country: HR

Project Partners

  • EUROPEAN REGIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR CO-OPERATION
  • VIRTUAL CAMPUS LDA
  • UPI – ljudska univerza Zalec
  • CIVIC COMPUTING LIMITED
  • European Digital Learning Network
  • M.K. INNOVATIONS LTD
  • HEARTHANDS SOLUTIONS LIMITED