#Co-Learn Erasmus Project

Project Title

#Co-Learn

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 : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Research and innovation

Project Summary

CONTEXT
The outbreak of Covid-19 had immense consequences for education. The closure of schools forced teachers to rethink their approaches to education and how to adapt pedagogy to remote contexts. Not only did they need technology to contribute to effective student learning, teachers also needed additional knowledge and skills for digital pedagogy. In many cases, the digital skills of both students and teachers turned out to be insufficient.

OBJECTIVES
In this project we want to:
Exchange good practices and new approaches to remote and blended learning
Investigate how solutions and practices from different countries work in different (national) educational settings
Investigate the blended learning approaches which work best in different contexts; for example in upper primary and lower secondary schools
Investigate how positive results of distance learning can be maintained and shared
Investigate how the characteristics of good teaching in the classroom are paralleled online in a remote or blended context
Investigate what digital and pedagogical skills are needed for teachers
Develop training for digital skills and pedagogical approaches for blended learning
Connect teachers and schools to exchange ideas and work together on these ideas
Practice online teaching and communication between the participating schools and organisations
Use case studies and action research outcomes in the participating countries to improve our (digital and blended) education
Apply learning from academic research and experiences of distance learning in Higher education
PARTICIPANTS

Across the 5 countries involved, over 18 teachers (including ICT coordinators), 8 headteachers and 12 educators will be directly involved in the project. Beyond that, 100+ teachers will participate in the action research case study activities that will be disseminated to more than 10,000 school teachers and ICT educators and 60,000 students.

ACTIVITIES

3 transnational project meetings
5 blended learning teaching and training activities will take place in partner countries
5 action research case studies

The project will culminate in a final training and dissemination event to ensure that learning from the project is integrated into local practice and outcomes from the project are embedded into each region’s professional development programme for local schools.

METHODOLOGY
The transnational nature of our consortium is a core to our methodology. It enables us to apply methods and lessons developed in other countries’ contexts and to learn from best practice outside of our immediate environments.
Project methodology will include:
Action research projects
Case studies
Teacher professional development events

RESULTS
The project will result in establishing clear evaluated and documented knowledge, approaches and pedagogies for remote and blended learning. Results will include an eTwinning page with shared resources, materials and lesson plans, and a website for dissemination at a local, regional, national and international level. Also teachers competences will be increased as a result of the training activities.

IMPACT
This project impacts the digital pedagogy and skills of teachers and therefore the way students learn by using digital technologies in the classroom and online. This results into a new approach to education, on a global level, in which blended learning is integrated. As the teachers in the participating countries get to know each other face to face and online, they will keep in contact also after the project, using eTwinning.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 222314 Eur

Project Coordinator

EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT TRUST & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Skole- og Dagtilbud i Middelfart Kommune
• STICHTING LUCAS ONDERWIJS
• Norrköpings Kommun Utbildningskontoret
• Strib skole
• Rosendale Primary School
• KATRINEHOLMS KOMMUN
• Cascade/ voorheen De Dijselbloem