DIGITAL EDUCATION IN VETERINARY STUDIES Erasmus Project

Project Title

DIGITAL EDUCATION IN VETERINARY STUDIES

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; Open and distance learning; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Veterinary profession at the EU level is legally listed among the regulated professions which means that the education of European veterinarians must comply with minimal quality standards defined through the European System of Evaluation of Veterinary Training (ESEVT). Standards of veterinary education revolve around the list of so-called “Day–one Competences”, representing the body of knowledge and skills that the veterinary school must provide for all its students by the date of their graduation. Compliance to standards for each individual veterinary education establishment is certified through an elaborate accreditation procedure carried out by EAEVE re-currently, every 7 years.
After the outbreak of COVID in March 2020 Switching to the online theoretical teaching has been almost seamless. However, hands-on experience, i.e. laboratory, microscopy, necropsy, indoor and outdoor clinical teaching etc. were seriously affected during occasional “lockout” periods since there weren’t any suitable means to compensate at least for some of the topics, with the ready to use online teaching material.

Objectives of the project are:
– to upgrade the system of delivery of digital teaching material for distance and classroom learning (e-learning platform);
– to inspire/stimulate teachers to upgrade their abilities to produce higher quality digital teaching material;
– to produce a substantial volume of digital teaching material.
– to search for the existing, suitable, open access e-learning material on the Internet and integrate it into the teaching process at all partner faculties.

Participants
Applicant:
1) University of Belgrade (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine), Serbia
Partners:
2) University of Zagreb (Veterinary Faculty), Croatia
3) University of Skopje (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine), Northern Macedonia
Associated Partner:
4) European Association of Establishments in Veterinary Education (EAEVE), seated in Vienna, Austria
Activities
Joint production of high quality veterinary digital educational material, i.e. videos, micrographs collections, photo collections, animations and presentations, drawings, schemes, posters, datasets, handouts, brochures; internet sources retrieval; building of the e-learning platform.
Digital film and photograph recording and processing of laboratory and clinical procedures, microscope specimen preparation and recording, digital drawing and animation, targeted Internet search, performed by the creative teams of teachers and technicians at all partner institution; platform and database programming, download and maintenance perform by the IT services.
Impact
1) The enhancement of the institutions’ capacity for the production of HQ digital educational materials.
2) New e-learning platform at FVMUB, installed, organized and uploaded with existing and newly produced intellectual products.
3) Production, by all participants, of the high quality digital educational material in substantial quantity and diversity, offered as an open resource.
4) Diverse collection of high quality Open Source digital educational material collected from the Internet.
Longer term benefits.
Broadening of teacher’s didactic skills towards the digital era; improvement of partners’ distance learning capabilities; better acceptance of the teaching material by the “millennial” students generations; upgrade of knowledge of practicing (graduated) veterinarians, improvement of veterinary services.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 112204 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERZITET U BEOGRADU & Country: RS

Project Partners

• SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU
• Ss. CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY IN SKOPJE