Designing for Personalization and Inclusion with Technologies Erasmus Project

Project Title

Designing for Personalization and Inclusion with Technologies

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Pedagogy and didactics; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

The present school education system is characterised by complexity and diversity. This makes it necessary for teachers to acquire new skills and innovative methods and tools to be able to deliver high quality teaching, to build flexible, personalised and inclusive educational paths, and to deal with complex class room realities. The existence of new educational technologies and the use of multimedia instruments within schools, furthermore requires new ways for how to design, manage and organise learning paths and educational material. Many of the existing learning design methodologies, even if being valid: either they are not flexible enough and thus not appropriate for the today’s complex school reality; or they require work load not being sustainable. In addition, teachers often predispose annual plans, that don’t support day by day design.
The aim of this project is to develop, test and transfer an interactive learning design methodology and App into the participating school and university systems of the partner countries, then promoting its adoption in further EU countries. In particular the objectives are:
– To develop a Learning Design Methodology that will support teachers in managing new and complex class room realities, and differentiation between learner needs.
– To develop an Application (a Google Chrome APP for PC and mobile App for Android and IOS), easy to use, to support the teacher in designing their learning activities, possible to use both in class room and at home.
– To test and validate the Learning Design Methodology and App in several schools and at different levels in the partner territories.
– To implement a MOOC to open up the learning opportunities to other territories and to promote the use of the methodology and the app;
– To disseminate and transfer the Learning Design Methodology and related App to other schools, universities and teachers outside the partnership at both local, national and European level.
To achieve the above objectives, 10 partners from 4 different countries will cooperate throughout four different action phases:
1) In the 1st action phase partners will define and fine-tune the methodological approach that the project intends to follow.
2) In the 2nd action phase partners will develop an App for the Learning Design and organisation of pedagogical material, testing their use directly in schools and with teachers that belong to the networks of the consortium;
3) In the 3rd phase a training process will be launched to consolidate the use of the Methodology and App: a) through a training course for the teachers of the involved pilot schools; b) by the introduction of the training content within the course curricula of the science education programme of the 4 universities involved, to prepare future teachers/trainers; c) through the development of the course content in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs), first of a series already planned, to guarantee a direct and permanent access and use by other schools, universities, teachers, students and stakeholders.
4) The 4th phase is finally dedicated to transfer and mainstream results at local, national and European level, including the organisation of multiplier events.
This will result in validated tools and resources, that can be easily transferred, adapted and applied into different class room realities, schools and countries since they were jointly developed, tested and tried out in various schools, territories and countries representing different characteristics, problems and needs.
The positive effects of the project in terms of more personalised, inclusive and flexible learning paths, will contribute in maximising each individual’s learning potential and will help them to better respond to the needs of the 21st century.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 426788,31 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MACERATA & Country: IT

Project Partners

• ASSOCIATION EUROPEENNE DES ENSEIGNANTS SEZIONE ITALIANA DELLA AEDE
• Association pour la Formation des Enseignants en Europe
• UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA
• rete DEPIT
• Centro del Profesorado Sevilla
• RETE CRESCENDO
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON