Advanced Use of Learning Technologies in Higher Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Advanced Use of Learning Technologies in Higher Education

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 2016

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The starting point of the AduLeT (Advanced Use of Learning Technologies in Higher Education) project was the fact that higher education lecturers often use learning technologies, such as Learning Management Systems, in a rather simple way. Mostly they upload files like Power Point, PDF or Word instead of using the pedagogical potentials. Before the project, the consortium reviewed and analyzed multiple studies that were dealing with this issue and summarized the barriers and know reasons for them. Since all partners of the consortium face the same defiance, AduLeT aims to provide the lecturer with relevant information on how to use TEL in the daily teaching in an advanced way based on these barriers. Therefore, the main objective was to set up teaching methods for TEL, guidelines for the effective use of TEL tools to be used in these teaching methods, case studies, as well as tailor and perform a study to find out the barriers at the participating universities. Finally, the aim was to gather all information in a platform by implementing and establishing a community of practice.

The nine project partners (Ludwigsburg University of Education (LUE), Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Humak University of Applied Sciences (Humak), John von Neumann University (JNU), Open University of the Netherlands (OU NL), Pixel, University of Stuttgart Uni-S). All participating universities have a leading expertise in the area of TEL and/or higher education teaching. Coming from diverse backgrounds and home departments their experiences complement each other in unique ways: developing and evaluating new ICTs and teaching/learning methods (Humak, LUE, OU NL, TU Delft), developing digital strategies (Humak, Uni-S), developing internet platforms (IPB, Uni-S), conceptualization of teacher training (JNU, LUE, UCM), expertise in conceptualization of research studies as well as data analysis (OU NL), as well as expertise in project management (LUE, Pixel), dissemination (Pixel, Humak) and exploitation (Pixel).

Main activities of the project were:
-to develop templates for describing TEL teaching methods and tools, to create collections of TEL teaching methods and tools;
– to provide Case studies provided by lecturers describing their experiences in the use of tools in their teaching as well as recommendations and strategies for the use of TEL in higher education,
– to perform a study in order to find out the barriers for the advanced use of technologies at the participation universities and to publish research papers with the results
– to implement and establish a community of practice (Cop)

The main target group of the AduLeT-project were lecturers from higher education institutions. An important aspect of AduLeT was the early involvement of the primary target group into the results of AduLeT through so called “build the community workshops” to test and evaluate the results, but also at the end of the project through the multiplier events held in each participating country.
The main result of the project was the implantation and establishment of the AduLeT Community of Practice (CoP), which gathers all the produced content of the project. All results as well as the complete CoP is available in English, German, Hungarian, Finnish, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese. The CoP can be found under the URL https://cop.adulet.eu/.

Our workshops and multiplier events reached hundreds of lecturers in higher education. Through the 11 associated partners the AduLeT project is supported and spread in further European countries as such Lithuania and Romina, but also in Mexico. Based on the evaluation and the received feedback, the attained impact on the lecturers of the participating universities and lecturers at other higher educational institution was very high, since they could improve their skills and knowledge concerning the use of tools and TEL teaching methods. Moreover, the CoP was considered very helpful for this purpose.

Overall, the project has received a lot of attention from lecturers, practitioners and researchers in the scientific community. All AduLeT partners are committed to jointly continue to promote AduLeT, disseminate our results and to establish the AduLeT Community of Practice (CoP) further.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 424990 Eur

Project Coordinator

PADAGOGISCHE HOCHSCHULE LUDWIGSBURG & Country: DE

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
• INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DE BRAGANCA
• OPEN UNIVERSITEIT NEDERLAND
• SUOMEN HUMANISTINEN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY HUMAK
• Neumann János Egyetem
• UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID