Digital Pedagogy Cookbook Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Pedagogy Cookbook

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 2018

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Technology is fundamentally changing how we teach and learn, making it more engaging but also challenging. Educators are facing increased challenges faced to accommodate the rising importance of technology in education and the impact this has on teaching and learning. Digital Pedagogy moves the focus from only ICT tools and skills, to a mode of working in the digital world. The EU Joint Research Council in 2017 has produce a Policy Report on a European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators (DigCompEdu), intended as a reference framework tool for implementing regional and national tools and training programmes.
Since computer technologies entered the educational domain, a number of metaphors have been introduced in the literature to explain this newly emerged phenomenon to educators in familiar terms. The metaphor that is based on food preparation processes and learning how to competently cook and is analogous to understanding how digital pedagogy – also about process, design, and making knowledge knowable – facilitates learning about teaching using digital tools and methods.

The project responded to the aims of Strategic Partnerships under Erasmus + insofar as it focussed, through the improvement educational practices for the target groups, on “Extending and developing educators’ competences, particularly in the effective teaching of literacy, numeracy and digital skills to low-skilled or low-qualified adults, including through the effective use of ICT”

The project aim was to introduce the digital pedagogy to educators using the recipe metaphor and to make a meaningful contribution to the up-skilling of educators. The project objectives were:

– To build upon and extend the European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators (DigiCompEdu)
– To provide all the theoretical and practical information needed by educators in order to understand digital pedagogy, improve their digital competences, create, evaluate and share their own digital recipes according to the European Digital Competence Frameworks for Citizens and for Educators.
– To promote the use of cooking/recipe metaphor for digital pedagogy by providing comprehensive and – above all – a practice driven guide.
– To empower and support educators to strengthen their performance through the development of an online community of practice where educators can effectively access, share, and create knowledge, as well as strengthen their commitment to the profession.
-To determine whether the Intellectual outcomes of the project are transferable to other education sectors, specifically in VET and to make recommendations and amendments if relevant
-To support informal learning and professional development for educators

Main target groups of the project were educators and educators’ trainers. Indirect beneficiaries were institutional managers and those responsible for strategy at regional or consortia level, adult learners, and trainers in other educational sectors (VET). In total 658 members of the above target groups directly participated in project activities. Specifically, 231 members of community of practice, 377 participated in face to face and online Multiplier Events, 19 participated in C1 and C2 training events and 31 participated in survey for IO4.

Project partners produced the following outcomes:
– A Toolkit for Educators as guide for applying digital pedagogy using the recipes metaphor as downloadable PDF file and as an online interactive resource in all partners’ languages (English, Greek, German, Spanish and French).
– A Digital Pedagogy Cookbook with 90 recipes to be used by educators focusing on four pedagogic areas of DigCompEdu: Digital Resources, Teaching and Learning, Assessment and Empowering Learners. Cookbook is available as PDF document and as online interactive catalog in in all partners’ languages.
– An online Community of Practice for educators and educational planners about digital pedagogy as a Facebook Group with 231 members
– A report with recommendations for the applicability and transference of the outcomes to VET. Report can be downloaded as PDF file.

Major impact of the project is that contributed towards the adaptation of DigCompEDU framework by educators and adult education providers. It also contributed towards the EU priority for more strategic use of ICT in education.

Participating organisations gained much sounder knowledge of on digital pedagogy and the framework for digital competences for educators and this improved so far their understanding of the means by which digital pedagogy is applied in educational practice. Trainers who participated in project activities have much sounder knowledge of how to apply digital pedagogy in their teachings.

Project outcomes (especially the recipes) are being used in other Erasmus projects and the recipe metaphore has been adapted by educators and education providers in Adult, VET and Higher Education.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 184670,3 Eur

Project Coordinator

SYNERGASIA ENEGON POLITON & Country: EL

Project Partners

• ASSOCIATION POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES INITIATIVES CITOYENNES ET EUROPEENNES
• VEREIN MULTIKULTURELL
• FORMACION PARA EL DESARROLLO E INSERCION, SOCIEDAD LIMITADA
• DACORUM COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE
• IBERIKA EDUCATION GROUP GGMBH