INTEGRATION THROUGH BLENDED LEARNING Erasmus Project

Project Title

INTEGRATION THROUGH BLENDED LEARNING

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

The project arose from the detection by the Spanish partners of difficulties experienced by teachers and students of the blended learning modality who use a Moodle platform adapted by the Junta de Andalucia, and the high rate of desertion among these students.
The main objectives of the project were to detect these difficulties in the use of the platform, propose solutions and complementary digital tools, as well as initiatives to reduce the desertion rate. Finally, to present to the Andalusian educational authorities the project conclusions as improvement proposals for blended learning and the adoption of a better common model.
The partners:
• two public institutions dependent on the Consejería de Educacion of Junta de Andalucía, The Secondary School Arroyo de la Miel, and the Language School of Fuengirola, promoters of the project.
• Institute for interdisciplinary education, a small non-profit association from Linz, with a view to support equal opportunities for unemployed persons, migrants and women on the labor market and learning opportunities; with experience in counseling and design of training courses.
• Centro Internazionale per la Promozione dell Educazione e lo Sviluppo, non-profit organization from Palermo, Sicily (Italy) devoted to promote the integration of different sectors of society in risk of exclusion through training; with ample experience in Erasmus+.
• Aintek Symvouloi Epicheiriseon Efarmoges Ypsilis Technologias Ekpaidefsi Anonymi Etaireia, training consulting company from Piraeus, (Greece) focused on course design using different resources, including educational platforms; with ample experience in Erasmus+.

Although the project arises from and focuses on the needs of two particular members, the final aim was the collective enrichment by sharing good practice and solving difficulties experienced by all partners, adopting common models and procedures.
Activities: dissemination of project start, common knowledge of the project terms, intern agreement signing, Mobility tool+ access, setting up a basic structure for communication and information exchange through a Google account (Drive, Calendar). Design of plan for joint action, task assignment among partners until first transnational meeting, agreement on meeting calendar. Creation of common database for dissemination initiatives, logo, blog, website and Facebook account. Presentation to show blended learning platform features. Design of two surveys to be conducted through Google Forms to know the opinion of the platform users, teachers and students; translation into English of the surveys, four in total, to facilitate suggestions and changes by all partners. With the collected data, a Spanish-English report was prepared for the partners´consideration and discussion. With the collected data, a Spanish-English report was prepared for the
partners´consideration and discussion. Taking into account the conclusions of the report, partners made different proposals. The final outcome was transferred into a document which included improvement proposals and which was sent to the Dirección general de educación Permanente, responsible of blended learning education in Andalusia. It was also sent to the institutions that participated in the survey about the platform as well as to the language School Teachers´ Association for their members´ knowledge. Selection of free digital tools to complement the ones already present in the platform to facilitate the teachers and students´ labour, promoting a bigger participation in the platform through gamification. Selection and presentation, by every partner institution, of their features and common election of those deemed more appropriate. Selection of personnel, from among the institutions´staff, to be trained in the utilization of these tools and the later implementation and dissemination in their institutions, as well to acquire knowledge about the students´opinion on the digital tools and provide their own, all through a common form designed by the coordinators of the institutions. Designing a Google Forms survey about student desertions, writing a report with survey results and proposal of prevention initiatives on final document.
The final result came out as planned and the foreseen impact greater due to the involvement of other institutions (schools that contributed data to the platform survey and received feedbacl regarding the results and conclusions of the project). Common measures were adopted for improvement of blended learning at every institution.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 64253 Eur

Project Coordinator

Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Fuengirola & Country: ES

Project Partners

• INSTITUT FUR INTERDISZIPLINARE BILDUNG (IIB)
• Instituto de educación Secundaria ARROYO DE LA MIEL
• CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE PER LA PROMOZIONE DELL’EDUCAZIONE E LO SVILUPPO ASSOCIAZIONE
• AINTEK SYMVOULOI EPICHEIRISEON EFARMOGES YPSILIS TECHNOLOGIAS EKPAIDEFSI ANONYMI ETAIREIA