E-Learning course on Mobile Robotics for Adult Education: the fourth industrial revolution Erasmus Project

Project Title

E-Learning course on Mobile Robotics for Adult Education: the fourth industrial revolution

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: Pedagogy and didactics; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The concept of The Fourth Industrial Revolution was presented in 2016 by Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, at the Davos conference in Switzerland, to designate the current era, characterised by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds.
The most raised issue is the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on employment. The World Economic Forum estimates that with the improvements in automation, robotics and artificial intelligence, five million jobs will be eradicated in Europe by 2020 (World Economic Forum, 2016). No job, qualified or not, is immune to the impact of automation.
The unprecedented sophistication of technology and the integration of artificial intelligence will have an impact on several professional areas soon. While on the one hand jobs are disappearing, on the other hand, new opportunities will be created, especially for computer and technology specialists. According to Schwab (2016), the next five years are a critical period of transition.
In this scenario, there is an excellent opportunity to invest in the training of adults for new job opportunities that will require knowledge about programming and robotics, and that allow their adaptation to a complex and ever-changing world.
Yet, in a world where the Internet is increasingly accessible and mobile, accessing, sharing and producing digital content have become routine activities. That is why citizens must have skills that enable them to use technologies that can bring new opportunities to their lives and, on the other hand, be prepared for increasingly complex living and working environments that focus on proficiency in learning and innovation skills that include critical thinking and problem solving, creativity and innovation, communication and collaboration (Schwab, 2016).
Also, the need to continually explore new pedagogical practices in e-learning creates an opportunity to shape new content with new tools that stimulate creativity, enabling the adult learners to understand better the world in which they live in.
The partnership will design and develop an e-Learning course collaboratively on Mobile Robotics for adult education, promoting the technical skills of trainers and learners and enabling them to develop new skills such as computational thinking and problem-solving. Then, the e-learning training course will be put into practice with adult education trainers.
Simultaneously, these adult education trainers will analyse their pedagogical practices, reflect, and share with the partnership at the e-learning training sessions. During the training process, it is intended that the interventions in an educational context can be the object of collaborative reflections that respond to the objectives of the project.
At the end of this project, the partnership will have created an e-learning course on a virtual learning platform, a teaching and learning toolkits on Mobile Robotics for adult learners, with pedagogical activities and practices with innovative educational scenarios for trainers to use with their trainees.
Finally, the partnership will also have developed a book that expresses the experiences of the adult educators involved in the project regarding the pedagogical practices with mobile robotics.

Schwab, Klaus (2016). The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Geneva: World Economic Forum
P21’s Framework for 21st Century Learning. (S/D). 21st Century Skills: How can you prepare students for the new Global Economy? Retrieved from http://www.p21.org/our-work/p21-framework

Project Website

http://www.e-roboticsproject.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 209553 Eur

Project Coordinator

Seyhan Halk Egitimi Merkezi ve Aksam Sanat Okulu Mudurlugu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• K MILIOS AND SIA OE
• Mesleki Girisimciler ve Toplum Gonulluleri Dernegi
• UNIVERSITY OF CUKUROVA
• MAKE IT PEDAGOGICAL
• UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI
• DALYA AJANS REKLAM TANITIM MEDIKAL BILGISAYAR BILISIM VE PROMOSYON DEKORASYON ITHALAT IHRACAT TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI
• Cukurova Kaymakamligi