Digital Didactics in Art Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Didactics in Art 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 : 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: Pedagogy and didactics; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Various recent surveys among higher education faculty and school teachers on the European as well as various national levels have demonstrated the need for more high quality digital resouces to be used in higher education and school education. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic clearly revealed a specific skills gap for both HE faculty and school teachers alike when it comes to effectively using digital resources for online teaching. In the school sector, accessibily of digital resources has emerged as a particular concern.

The project Digital Didactics in Art Education (DIDAE) will address these concerns by developing a digitial platform, also called DIDAE, which will provide an overview on easily accessible digital tools for art making. This includes digital tools for drawing, painting, sculpting, animation, augmented reality, video, photography, gaming and game development, graphic design, photo editing and photo manipulation, instructions for these tools and classroom assignments. The criteria to be used for selecting and creating new digital content in this field include: open access; data economy; clear user interface; low-threshold usability; data protection; online stability; different end devices, peer-to-peer learning among users; social inclusiveness and creative potential. This will ensure that users in HE and secondary school education will be able to easily access open educational resources which guarantee high educational quality, accessibility and inclusion.

The primary target groups of the DIDAE project will be HE art education faculty, art education students studying to become art teachers, art teachers at secondary schools and pupils. The online platform will address the skills gap outined above by supporting the development of HE faculty’s and teachers’ digital didactic competences. The DIDAE platform will be designed as an open educatioinal resouce (OER) and according to the 2016 EU guideline on Web Accessibility.

The project partners in DiDAE consist of Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT) – coordinator, Bern University of the Arts (CH), Moholy Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (HU), Universtiy of Cologne (DE) and Willem de Kooning Academy from the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (NL). Through a series of activies and events joining HE faculty teaching in secondary school teacher training programmes, advanced students in teacher training programmes and secondary school teachers, the partners will gather, classify, edit and newly created OER which will feed into the DIDAE platform.They will systematically consolidate the new knowledge in digital didactics for art making/artistice practice that has emerged as an ad-hoc response over the COVID-19 semester in spring/summer 2020 and ensure that this knowledge is not lost and will build on it so that as many HE educators, HE students and secondary school teachers will be able to benefit from it.

The DIDAE platform will be created using the four languages Dutch, English, German and Hungarian to ensure a wide target audience accross Europe and beyond. The multilingual approach will also ensure that users from all over Europe will be able to profit from digital educational resources which were originally created e.g. in a language spoken by fewer people such as Hungarian.

The DIDAE platform developed in this project will nourish the use of digital resources for art making both in the current pandic times when distance learning is a necessity as well as in post-pandemic times when students and teachers will have returned to physical classrooms. The partners maintain that using both physical and digital tools for art making will broaden the creative skills of pupils as well as art teachers. Moreover, digital education has many benefits beyond the needs created by COVID-19, e.g. by allowing students/pupils with special needs/health issues or other learners unable to attend physical classes equal participation in education, thus underlying the high potential of DIDAE for fostering various dimensions of inclusion.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 241069 Eur

Project Coordinator

AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KUNSTE WIEN & Country: AT

Project Partners

• STICHTING HOGESCHOOL ROTTERDAM
• BERNER FACHHOCHSCHULE
• MOHOLY-NAGY MUVESZETI EGYETEM
• UNIVERSITAET ZU KOELN