Developing and Implementing Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning at Georgian HEIs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Developing and Implementing Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning at Georgian HEIs

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 : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The general aim of the proposed project is to enhance the quality of higher education by developing and implementing technology – enhanced teaching and learning in Georgian Higher Education Institutions. It aims to empower academic staff at Georgian HEIs in the innovative educational technology adoption in curriculum reform and course design; to improve the level of competences and skills in HEIs by developing new and innovative education programmes and providing trainings for academic staff to enhance their digital competences and skills’; to diversify the delivery methods, including on-line/blended teaching.The specific objectives of the project are: To Design and pilot new online/blended courses for GE HEIs BA and MA programs in line with EU best practices; To Design and conduct F2F/online/blended professional development training courses for GE HEI faculty and online instructors; To develop a common platform for online teaching and learning for GE HEIs; To disseminate best practices at institutional and national level via online platform, in-service teacher trainings and National Conference.The main target groups are students, academic staff and pre-/in-service teachers. All the activities within the project are planned in a way to address the needs of these target groups, which lead to the achievement of the overall objective of the project – to enhance the quality of higher education by developing and implementing technology – enhanced teaching and learning in Georgian Higher Education Institutions.GE institutions within the proposed project consider extremely important to develop and implement technology-enhanced learning and innovative teaching and learning strategies for the capacity building in higher education and creating conditions for learning and teaching in digital environment.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 565554 Eur

Project Coordinator

TALLINN UNIVERSITY & Country: EE

Project Partners

• SAMTSKHE-JAVAKHETI STATE UNIVERSITY
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK – NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK
• SOKHUMI STATE UNIVERSITY
• SHOTA RUSTAVELI STATE UNIVERSITY
• AKAKI TSERETELI STATE UNIVERSITY
• NATIONAL CENTRE FOR TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• KAUNO TECHNOLOGIJOS UNIVERSITETAS