Digital Immigrants Survival Kit Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Immigrants Survival Kit

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 adult 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; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

Context/background of project
The DigComp 2.0 framework contains the statistic, that in average 46 % of European citizens lack in digital competences (DC). Every possible effort must be made to reduce this number of less educated people. This project focuses on typical DC necessary for people to remain well-integrated members in a digitalized society.

Objectives of your project
The project aims to develop missing digital competences of adults (Adult Education AE with a special focus in so-called ”digital immigrants” which are people disadvantaged in society due to their lack of digital competences DC and therefore count to miner educated people in DC) and to enable them to take an active role in the digital society.
The objectives are to create, implement and evaluate 15 modules teaching various specific topics related to everyday life covering DCs as a “Digital Immigrants Survival Kit” (DISK), to use flipped learning 3.0 as the training approach, to create an innovative self-evaluation tool based on competency-based self-evaluation mandalas, to create a transferability and implementation guide, to transfer the results and outcomes in a flexible way in other European countries and finally to publish the modules of the DISK Toolkit as Open Educational Resources (OER).

Number and profile of participants
The consortium consists of 5 partners(3 adult education organisations, one university, and a specialist in course quality & Open Educational resources OER) with complementary skills, experiences and approach to adult education.
The applicant is the University of Porto that will focus on adults with lower levels of education and create opportunities for their further education, inclusion and full participation as European Citizens and for their survival in a digitalized world. 3 Adult Training organisations are well distributed in Europe and have complementary approaches to Adult Education: Edrase, GR is well-experienced in trainings on remote places, EFQBL, AT has a specific focus on older people while Training 2000, IT is a professional AE training organization providing training to all ages of adults. Ossiannilsson Quality in Open Online Learning (QOOL) Consultancy is a Swedish organization specialized on quality in trainings and the publishing as OER.

Description of activities
The major activities will be to develop specific training modules for adults to increase DC in a specific field (competences and skills to handle daily routines and tasks with the need of a specific knowledge and experience)

Methodology to be used in carrying out the project
The chosen methodology is a kind of bottom-up strategy: An analysis creating a competence map is used to identify the specific competences (closely linked to the DigComp 2.0 framework, European Commission 2017). The result is used to develop the Training Content and to develop the training path & pilot testing. The proven modules of the toolkit will be published and enhanced by a comprehensive set of OERs. The transferability and implementation guide enabled the transfer to other European countries.

Short description of the results and impact envisaged
The result of this project will be a set of 15 training modules for adults less educated in DC to enable them to survive in the digitalized world and to act as active citizens (without exclusion from everyday’s tasks based on DC). Topics will be the connectivity by social media. Privacy, data protection, dealing issues with public authorities and similar issues.
The trainings because of the project will enable people to handle their digital identity, will tackle literacy issues related to media and health concerns (justifiable with issues such as vulnerability to false/fake news and the relevance of health concerns in older age) in frame of their role as active citizens.

Potential longer-term benefits
Longer-term benefits will be the enhancement of basically necessary DC in countries, where the level of DC of citizens is below the European average. The well-structured and developed blended learning courses (based on flipped learning) can easily be used by organisations to reduce the specifically addressed DC gap of adults in the future (estimated for the next 5 to ten years)

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 193637 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO & Country: PT

Project Partners

• EUROPEAN FOUNDATION FOR QUALITY INBLENDED LEARNING
• ETAIRIA DRASEON EPIMORFOSIS
• Ossiannilsson Quality in Open Online Learning (QOOL) Consultancy
• Training 2000 psc