Flipped DigitalTeachers. Embracing innovative digital teaching programs for migrant trainers based on flipped learning approach Erasmus Project

Project Title

Flipped DigitalTeachers. Embracing innovative digital teaching programs for migrant trainers based on flipped learning approach

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: Migrants’ issues; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The world is facing an unprecedented pandemic that, among its many consequences, has brought with it a new way of understanding learning. COVID19 has disrupted the way we live, the way we relate to each other, and of course the way we learn. Teachers and trainers have been forced to stop face-to-face learning, adopting emergency solutions associated with digital transformation in order to continue offering alternatives that allow them to continue training students remotely. Obviously, online training was not unknown, but the circumstances of the pandemic have made it an indispensable element.

Confinement and its consequences for training have had a greater impact specially among the groups of trainers of vulnerable groups such as trainers of migrant people, that have had to face a double handicap because adult migrant education, have to prepare adult migrants for effective integration in the hosting societies. The offer of training programs and socio-labour insertion for groups of migrant and vulnerable people, are offered practically 99% face-to-face, which represents a huge challenge for trainers, who are aware that they will have to adapt their methodological approaches to possible new periods of confinement or the application of restrictive measures of another type that hinder this face-to-face learning.

So that, the main goal of Flipped DTs is to redefine the role of the trainers of these disadvantaged collectives by turning trainers into drivers of innovation, enabling them to create and to adapt new methodological approaches as tools of social isolation and drawing the future of the training system according to a hybrid learning combining the synchronous and asynchronous dimensions. For this reason, the project is focused on giving a creative solution to the challenges that the current crisis is bringing to the trainers of the most vulnerable groups, such as migrant people in situations of social vulnerability, answering comprehensively to the new educational needs arising as a result of the pandemic, through the application of a new methodological approach, based on the potential of Flipped Learning and the appropriate use of digital tools that allow the reinforcement of communication, collaborative learning and emotional engagement of students.

The project addresses to adapt teaching methodologies to a mixed context. that allows the promotion of innovative methods and tools for teaching and training for the improvement of lifelong learning as well as to increase quality and recognition of teaching through innovative pedagogies as blended/ flipped learning that could play a pivotal role in increasing equality and inclusiveness in adult training. Digital technology should be integrated into the training system ensuring an appropriate mix of digital and face-to-face learning experiences.

To respond to these needs, we will create the Flipped DTs training toolkit, a Toolkit of open educational resources designed so that trainers can successfully integrate the Flipped Learning methodology in the planning and development of their new training programs . Flipped Dts is an opportunity for trainers to organise their teaching differently and to interact with students on a more personalised basis, focusing on their specific needs. Because responding to the challenges of adapting training programs for vulnerable migrants to the new reality imposed by the pandemic can only be guaranteed by training and giving a new role to trainers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 158780 Eur

Project Coordinator

Asociación Moviéndote por la Integración y la Participación Ciudadana & Country: ES

Project Partners

• FUNDACJA “MALOPOLSKA IZBA SAMORZADOWA”
• STIFTELSEN KURSVERKSAMHETEN VID U-AUNIVERSITET
• MEDIA CREATIVA 2020, S.L.
• Social Cooperative Enterprise Drosostalida