ENriching Teachers’ SkIlls in Digital Humanities CrowdsourcING Erasmus Project

Project Title

ENriching Teachers’ SkIlls in Digital Humanities CrowdsourcING

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 : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

The ENTICING project aims at seamlessly blending the benefits of Crowdsourcing with the need to upgrade the levels of digital readiness of secondary school teachers in humanities by empowering them with competences and tools that will improve the quality of their teaching and at the same time will render them ready to respond quickly in circumstances of crisis.

To this end, the project will develop an innovative, tailored and co-designed training programme to educate teachers on Digital Humanities Crowdsourcing and support them in improving the quality of their teaching. Many studies demonstrate the benefits of crowdsourcing in the teaching process as it increases the engagement of the student rendering them active content developers and contributors in the teaching process. Although at academic level, there has been a significant progress in Digital Humanities, established as a distinct discipline and on crowdsourcing methodologies, still there is an evident lack in the availability of training for teachers and the transfer of scholarly knowledge in the design of tailored training for the professional development of humanities school teachers.

ENTICING’s specific objectives are the following:

1. Develop a tailored training course for teachers on Digital Humanities Crowdsourcing
2. Equip teachers with skills on applying Digital Humanities concepts and approaches in their teaching
3. Design and maintain a repository of Digital humanities Resources Crowdsourcing initiatives and tools that will increase teachers’ knowledge capital and the availability of quality resources
4. Develop a digital platform to serve as a transnational tool for teachers to host their crowdsourcing initiatives
5. Elaborate guidelines and recommendations on the integration and application of digital technologies in Humanities in secondary schools
6. Contribute to transnational cooperation among teachers and relevant stakeholders

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 214367 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE & Country: EL

Project Partners

• INSTITOUTO EKPEDEFTIKIS POLITIKIS
• Family and Childcare Center – branch in Skopje
• CENTRE FOR ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY LTD-CARDET
• Spectrum Research Centre CLG
• KMOP – POLICY CENTER ASBL