Digital solutions for trainers and educators Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital solutions for trainers and educators

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The Digital solutions for trainers and educators /DIGISOL project addresses the vocational and adult education sectors and the professional individual needs of educators and trainers who are working mostly with the adult learners.

The objective of the project is to develop a Curriculum for the training course on the Digital solutions for trainers and educators in the VET and adult education sectors aiming at increasing their digital competences and skills by learning the most demanded and broadly used digital tools in each of the partner organisation countries.

There will be 3 Transnational meetings organized in the framework of the project :
– Kick-off meeting in Latvia, January 2020 : 8 – 10 teachers/staff members participating.
– Intermediate evaluation meeting Germany, August 2020: 8 – 10 teachers/staff members participating.
– Final recap’ meeting Estonia, October 2021 : 8 – 10 teachers/staff members participating
In total there will be up to 40 teachers/staff members in total taking part in the Transnational meetings.

36 teachers and staff members of partner institutions will be involved in the short-term joint staff training events that will be held in:
– Estonia in May 2020 .
– Latvia in November 2020
– Germany in March 2021.

The main outcomes of the project related activities are expected as follows :
– trainers and educators know how to use different digital learning tools;
– trainers and adult learners have the possibility to have the blended learning approach (face-to-face + online);
– they can choose the better digital learning solution for their individual needs;
– survey on the specific digital needs of trainers in each partner institution country (100 trainers and 100 adult learners will participate from each country, in total 800 people involved) and its analysis.
– Curriculum for the online training course on the Digital solutions for trainers and educators (DIGISOL) in the VET and adult education sectors.
– Pilote of the DIGISOL Course for 2 groups of 12 learners in each partner organization country (96 people in total)
– free access to the DIGISOL course through a Moodle platform for everyone.
– online testing option and online certificate’ availability certifying the acquired digital competence / skills upon the test successful completion.
– 3 Multiplier events – open seminar / conference – 1 in each partner institution country, 180 people in total (+ the organizers’ team) will be taken part in these events.

In labor market perspective, the open access to the the DIGISOL Course modules will increase professional qualifications of VET educators and adult education trainers and help them meet the education sector rapidly digitizing requirements and needs.

The course will contain an innovative approach, methodology, schedule of the course, lesson outlines and activities to be ready for the use of trainer and educators from the VET and adult education sectors, but also educators or teachers from every other educational sector. .

The course would contain 3 learning modules with different topics. The 3 main modules are :
1) Cyber Security & Digitization
2) Webinars and other Communication Tools
3) Files & Documents Sharing Tools

The choice of the topics for the each module will be based on the results of the survey – the Assessment Questionnaire on the specific digital needs of VET trainers led in each partner institution country before designing the Curriculum of the Course. The Curriculum will be drawn after the analysis of the results of the Assessment Questionnaire and will be fully based on them.

The curriculum and the course will be designed in order to improve EU countries trainers’ and educators’ digital skills and knowledge of different digital solutions used in the new era of teaching / learning, to learn how to use and apply the Information and Communication Technologies, to better understand the concept of the digitization and to apply it in accordance to their competence arias.

Project Website

http://digisol.thinkific.com/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 89940,54 Eur

Project Coordinator

VALSTS ADMINISTRACIJAS SKOLA & Country: LV

Project Partners

• SIA DATORZINIBU CENTRS
• Tartu Kutsehariduskeskus
• Institut für technologieorientierte Frauenbildung e.V.