Hi-TEACH: a new trainer teaching framework in the post-covid era Erasmus Project

Project Title

Hi-TEACH: a new trainer teaching framework in the post-covid era

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; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

The COVID emergency has forced Universities in much of the world to transfer teaching activities online, giving life to the largest digitization experiment in history. It is a challenge destined to profoundly influence the academic scenario of the future, making e-learning a permanent component of university teaching and placing individual teachers and the governance of different universities at a crossroads: whether to resort to the simple what is now outdated remote video lesson or to use turnkey training products, not conceived and created by placing the student at the centre of the teaching process, but packaged tout-court in an industrial approach. This condition is difficult to reconcile with the plurality and heterogeneity of learning needs that should not be demeaned, approved and compressed but rather valued, interpreted and satisfied to prevent a risk, among other things increasing due to COVID, of a reduction in enrolments and of financial resources (EUA, The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on university funding in EU, 2020).

In response to these critical issues, the project, through the creation of a strategic partnership between HEIs and methodological and technological innovation training centres, focuses on the development of digital and methodological skills of a pool of teachers from 5 EU countries of 10 HEIs (IT, EL, ES, SI, PL) favouring its evolution towards the role of Hi-Teacher, able to supervise hi-tech teaching equipment and to apply inclusive web-based teaching methods that look at the use of audio-visual and to gaming as experimental grounds to introduce elements of flexibility, simplicity, accessibility, interactivity and personalization, which represent key quality indicators in open learning.
This project design implies a transnational cooperation strategy of the extended HE to generate relational, scientific and methodological capital of high added value that cannot be achieved with regional and/or national initiatives.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

1) Develop, for the benefit of the EU teachers involved, the technological skills and methodologies to manage learning processes through digital solutions and the behavioural qualities of resilience, flexibility and adaptation to change

2) Encourage digital integration in learning by adopting smart, e-learning solutions, unrelated to places and times, to diffuse the design, teaching, methodological and digital skills of the Hi-Teacher called to build just-in time, flexible, learner-centred, permanent, digital teaching instrumentation

3) Align 50 partnership teachers, involved in a transnational mobility, to acquire and transfer the methodologies:
• of INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN for the design of articulated, complex educational architectures to create interactive and transmedia learning spaces
• of GAME-BASED LEARNING to incorporate and functionalize game-based dynamics and mechanics to give life to selective and detailed evaluation processes on specific areas of competence
• of MOVIE EDUCATION to develop students’ behaviours to act (learning by acting), valorising the qualities to emulate and the errors to avoid through a cause-effect logic represented through film

4) Aliment and maintain over time, a process of innovation in a digital key of university teaching models by creating a methodological manual that guides the integrated digital teaching of the Hi-Teacher.

The project is set up to generate, in a self-consistent manner, multiplying cascade effects in the university contexts involved by virtue of a targeted strategy that consists of the action of the direct beneficiary trainers who will personally take care of the transfer of methodological, pedagogical, technological and didactic knowledge acquired with the use of the training program, participation in the mobility and the availability of Ope

Project Website

http://hi-teach.unisa.it/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 299995 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITA CA’ FOSCARI VENEZIA & Country: IT

Project Partners

• PANTEIO PANEPISTIMIO KOINONIKON KAI POLITIKON EPISTIMON
• UNIVERZA NA PRIMORSKEM UNIVERSITA DEL LITORALE
• PANEPISTIMIO PATRON
• CONFORM-CONSULENZA FORMAZIONE E MANAGEMENT SOCIETA CONSORTILE A RESPONSABILITA LIMITATA
• UNIWERSYTET EKONOMICZNY W POZNANIU
• FORMACION Y EDUCACION INTEGRAL
• UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE