Education on the way: Introducing technology-enhanced informal learning. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Education on the way: Introducing technology-enhanced informal learning.

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 2015

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

In a world where technology seems to grow faster than what we sometimes are capable of assimilating, a new phenomenon is awakening among our european and worldwide societies: the arise of new channels for (self-) learning and for the transmission of values. Even more impressive is to realize how effective this new channels can get to be under their informal/non-formal nature when blended with the possibilities of certain technologies.

The global objective of the project is to facilitate, by means of utilization of new (common and widespread) technologies, the recognition and use of informal and non-formal learning (and its permeability with interdisciplinary formal pathways) in the field of adult education and training (including seniors as a fundamental part of the intelligence society), paying particular attention to the acquisition of personal, social and formal skills as well as qualifications and values.

For this purpose, the project counts on the expertise of a perfectly balanced team of professional researchers, educators and technicians from Spain (SME), Ireland (University), Germany (University) and Romania (NGO). All of them with a long record of experience in the field of adult and senior education while making use of technology-enhanced learning environments and methodologies.

The Ed-Way project contributes to spread the advantages described before among educators, practitioners and facilitators through the creation of a manual with theoretical foundations and practical links and examples, together with methods to promote the experiential learning through technology. The transmission of this background will be additionally achieved by the development of an online training course that will include short professional video/multimedia productions that will be used according to the informal/non-formal nature of the project.

This project is established on the solid basis of a milestone methodology and the distribution of the intellectual outputs and activities to achieve based on the partners’ expertise and background. As a final result we will find a very innovative and updated contribution to train european and international educators, trainers and facilitators in the most current and effective methodologies in the acquisition of knowledge, skills, qualifications and values.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 145405 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centre for the innovation and development of education and technology, SL & Country: ES

Project Partners

• GRUPUL PENTRU INTEGRARE EUROPEANA
• FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN NUERNBERG
• DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY