Designing Future Innovative Learning Spaces Erasmus Project

Project Title

Designing Future Innovative Learning Spaces

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 2019

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The World Economic Forum’s research reveals that 5 million worldwide people will transfer their business to robots, and start-ups will focus on artificial intelligence and cloud projects up to 2020. In addition, approximately 50 or even 100 billion devices are expected to communicate with each other. In the near future, it is among the responsibilities of the Ministry of National Education to give direction to the innovative studies in this field by taking some fundamental steps from now on.

In Europe, some EU countries develop strategies to reflect their national policies about innovative learning spaces, while some countries consider innovative learning spaces as a priority in education. At this point, although there are different practices in this field both in our country and in Europe, there is no standard for creating innovative learning environments.

Within the scope of this project, samples of good practices on flexible learning areas in developed countries at European level will be examined. By this means, it is aimed to provide EU level standardized trainings for innovative learning spaces that will be designed as design and skill labs in Turkey.Therefore, the teachers who will develop innovative applications of innovative learning spaces will attend the trainings on 3 main topics: ICT, pedagogy, and space design. European Schoolnet will develop a methodological framework for the purpose of designing the trainings at EU level. University of Lisboa will be responsible for guidelines for teachers, Pedagogische Hochshule will design scenario-based learning activities, YEĞİTEK will develop evaluation scale and design online platform. Also, designing an online training platform for teacher trainings in order to support scenario-based learning in a multi-disciplinary way is one of the main innovative outputs.

11 Pan-European teachers will be trained on multidisciplinary approach of technology, pedagogy and design in the scope of the project. These trainers will provide scenario-based distance teacher- trainings in their own countries on “Designing Future Innovative Learning Spaces” through the platform to be developed. The three main topics of the framework program will be technology, space design and multi-disciplinary pedagogy. Following face-to-face trainings, online trainings will be delivered to 55 Pan-European teachers in Spain, Turkey, and Czech Republic. Those trainers will deliver scenario-based learning on innovative learning spaces to teachers at Pan-European level, reaching minimum 1,750 teachers.

For this purpose, it is aimed to receive trainer trainings from the European Schoolnet which has developed a prototype model in order to investigate the good practices in the innovative learning spaces implemented in Europe; and carry out the study visits. Following the trainings, a methodological framework will be developed in order to improve the innovative learning spaces that can be implemented throughout the country. Therefore, sample scenarios for the scenario-based learning studies in the innovative learning spaces and the teacher guidelines for creating scenarios will be prepared by all partners. Moreover a distance learning platform will be developed on EU standards in order to enable these trainings reach a greater audience in both national and European level.

This project will supply the need of schools that the innovative learning environments which will be created under the name of design and skill labs will be set up at EU level. Thus, this is an innovative project that associates and accomplishes the implementations in both our country and other partner countries.

Project Website

http://designfils.eba.gov.tr

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 245754 Eur

Project Coordinator

MINISTRY OF NATIONAL EDUCATION & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Zakladni skola Dr. Edvarda Benese
• Centro Autonómico de Formación e Innovación
• EUN PARTNERSHIP AISBL
• UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA
• HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI
• Verein zur Förderung digitaler Bildungsangbeote