Flipped Adult Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Flipped Adult Education

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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The “Flipped Adult Education” project FADE-in took a look at the horizon of educational developments. The specific focus was set on the further development of the flipped classroom to a Flipped Learning Framework, called “Flipped Learning 3.0”. The framework caused a shift in training methods and training activities. A characteristic is a change from on-site teaching courses or technology-enhanced blended learning courses to a new level.

The objectives of the FADE-in project were to develop a course concept in adult learning that is based on Flipped Learning 3-0. This project aim turned out to be an adventure with an undreamed dimension.
Our approach was to focus on active and self-directed learning, to “flip” the roles (Trainer => Facilitator, Learner => Self-determining Adult with self-responsibility for their learning). The collaboration with “Flipped Learning Global” turned out to be a stroke of luck, Jon Bergmann, one of the pioneers of Flipped Learning, contributed significantly to the success of the project and what a stroke of luck in his function as an expert..

The consortium consisted of four AE organizations with a complementary field of action, well-distributed in Europe (Greece, Spain, Norway, Austria). The wide scope of experience and impact to the project was one of the success factors in the project. This approach enabled versatile addressing to all groups of adult learners. The consortium in detail consisted of EBI (Austria), an AE institution with its own research and technics department focusing on elderly adults. EDRASE (Greece) is a specialist in courses held in remote places addressing adults with geographical obstacles. Intermezzo Ungdomsorganisasjon (Norway), an AE organization with a focus on younger adults, including people with migration backgrounds and refugees, was focused on language learning and inclusion. Asociación Juvance (Spain) was involved in the work with younger adults, many of them with fewer opportunities, and focused on intercultural, critical learning to endorse the learners to act as active, creative, responsive, and supportive citizens. During the project’s lifetime, AMAIS, a Spanish Adult organization closely connected to Juvance, joined the project as an associated organization. Jon Bergmann, one of the pioneers in developing the flipped classroom (or flipped learning) is head of the Global Flipped Learning Initiative (Colorado, USA), which was involved as an associated partner to this project. Together with Errol St. Clair Smith (The CEO of the GFLI) he impacted with current and freshly developed global knowledge and experience to the project; the GFLI supervised the development of the eBook about Flipped Adult Learning and cared for the correctness of the content.

The activities in the project started with an initial “inventory in the field of teaching and training”, followed by an initial training activity. Continuing from this experience, the development of the Flipped Adult Learning guide started. The intention of this eBook was to create a versatile and comprehensive compilation of Flipped Learning with a specific focus on AE. Additionally, useful proposals for the two essential learning rooms (Individual and Group Learning Space) were planned and developed, as well as a compilation of active learning methods. These typical items of the Flipped Learning framework have been enhanced by examples of best practices in Flipped Learning and completed by a quality framework. All the mentioned items have the “187 Global Elements of effective Flipped Learning” as their basis. This eBook provides a versatile approach and guidelines to the “new” learning. The impact of the partners cared for a versatile guide covering various target groups of adults. Additionally, the aspects of inclusion, as well as education of people with fewer opportunities, are part of the guide and integrated in the developed framework. In a final training, members of the partners got taught the findings from the guide in a “Flipped Learning setting”. This approach cared for the valuable self-experience of the participating trainers and enabled them to work as multipliers in their organizations.

The expected impact to partners was the shift in the methodology as well as a reassessment of the methods of teaching adults. The shift from passive training to active learning could be initiated in the participating organizations and is visible in the upcoming course offers of the partners. The use of the flipped approach including changes in the trainer–learner relation is seen as the future way to organize and implement courses.

As a joint product, the eBook has been developed and is currently available in English Version as well as in translations to Spanish, and Norwegian. An enhanced German-language edition is also available. The English ”Master Version” is provided in various formats (ePub, MOWI – for Kindle readers, and finally as printable PDF).

Project Website

https://www.fade-in.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 57331 Eur

Project Coordinator

Europäische Bildungsinitiative & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Asociación Juvance
• Intermezzo Ungdomsorganisasjon
• ETAIRIA DRASEON EPIMORFOSIS