Increasing Self-regulated learning with Technology-Amplified Learning for ALL: Educators going digital Erasmus Project

Project Title

Increasing Self-regulated learning with Technology-Amplified Learning for ALL: Educators going digital

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; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Increasing Self-regulated learning with Technology-Amplified Learning for ALL: Educators going digital (INSTALL-ed)

The COVID-19 pandemic has thoroughly disrupted the organisation of daily education in the recent months. The mandated closure of schools in the past months has presented teachers of all educational levels with great challenges. The switch to online and distance learning imposed new technologies and online tools on teachers and students. Concurrently to the practical and content-wise modifications, teachers were expected to support their students from a distance. Students need more than ever before self-regulated learning (SRL) skills in order to successfully adapt to new instructional approaches in which students have an increased autonomy. Especially in online settings in which often teacher presence is low, students need effective SRL skills to be successful (Broadbent, 2017). The availability of SRL skills with students greatly impacts their learning. We believe the timing is right to help teachers support students’ SRL, especially during online education. The project aims to deliver theory based user friendly solutions for online, hybrid and blended learning that teachers and students can use in their everyday school to make learning and teaching more efficient and enjoyable.

Therefore, this strategic partnership aspires to support teachers in adapting to the new ways of teaching, with specific attention for students’ SRL in these online learning environments. The partnership will adopt a holistic, multi-stakeholder approach to enable effective systemic impact in primary and lower secondary education.

The overall aim of the INSTALL-ed project is to strengthen primary and lower secondary school teachers in consciously using digital tools to support all students’ (self-regulated) learning. The first objective is to design professional development for teachers focusing on SRL and digital pedagogical competences. A second objective is to strengthen teachers’ skills to digitally support students’ SRL with concrete yet transferable materials. A third objective is to tackle macro-level obstacles experienced by teachers when digitally supporting students’ SRL by 1) directly impacting the edtech ecosystem and 2) educational policy.

Linked to our objectives and building upon the innovative experience and expertise of the project partners this project will produce the following outputs:

A practice framework
The practice framework consists of a position paper and visuals that explain the why, what and how of our project. The output aims to gather, (1) knowledge of the key factors in our project; technology-enhanced learning, online learning formats and SRL promotion, (2) the knowledge and some specific results from the previous projects tMAIL and SLIDEshow focusing on bringing SRL into the classroom and (3) new knowledge of research regarding COVID-19 and education. Output 1 targets teachers, other educational stakeholders and educational researchers.

An online teacher training
The training aims to enhance teachers capacity to analyze how they currently support SRL skills; train teachers how to analyze their digital practices and learn them to identify their struggles concerning the use of digital tools and promoting SRL; show them whether and how digital tools may help them; train teachers to use the patterns and consequently use the tools and platforms in such a way that it supports students’ learning. Specifically, teachers and other educational stakeholders (such as school principals, ICT coordinators) are targeted.

A repository of templates and examples
A central aim to the INSTALL-ed project is to create an answer to the question: What can teachers do to support specific aspects of SRL with tool X,Y, …?. This is done by providing various templates of already tested prompts and scripts for SRL that can be adapted for various educational settings. Next to these patterns, practical examples for teachers are paramount, showing them how to use digital tools/platforms, what they can do with it, to ultimately show how they can support their students’ SRL development.

User stories
Output 4 aims to produce some recommendations for edtech companies. Specifically, Output 4 will design some user stories and design principles which edtech companies could use in designing future (SRL-proof) tools and platforms. Specifically, the output aims to increase the knowledge about SRL skills, give insight in ideal teacher and student experiences when using digital solutions to support students’ SRL and offer concrete (plans for) improvements of software in favor of SRL skills. A service-design trajectory will be adopted in order to develop output 4.

A guide for policymakers
For policy makers in particular policy recommendations evidenced from the INSTALL-ed project will be produced in Output 5. Recommendations on local/regional level and on European level will be formulated.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 241960 Eur

Project Coordinator

VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL & Country: BE

Project Partners

• Sligo Education Support Centre
• OULUN YLIOPISTO
• HET GEMEENSCHAPSONDERWIJS
• H2 LEARNING LTD
• TALLINN UNIVERSITY