Marketplace of Knowledge for Digital Education Methodology Erasmus Project

Project Title

Marketplace of Knowledge for Digital Education Methodology

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: Open and distance learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

The DIGIMARKET project will be carried out by 7 organisations from 4 countries (Hungary, Spain, Luxembourg and the Netherlands)
With this project we reflect on the the special situation caused by COVID-19 alerted the world to the importance of the proper use of digital devices in education as well, and the opportunities and challenges in online long-distance education and blended learning.
After the wholesale migration of education in spring, the autumn of 2020 brought a new challenge in education: with schools functioning with relative consistency as much as the circumstances allow, students and teachers alike are repeatedly forced into home quarantine from their schools, with a quick succession of contact education periods and temporary school closedowns. Thus, contact and online education must be arranged to be feasible parallelly to and compatible with each other, and able to anticipate sudden changes in circumstances. This requires of teachers thoughtful preparation, self-training, a rethinking of their professional toolkit, and a thorough, practice-based knowledge of available online teaching materials and education-aid applications.
With our project, we help to preserve everything we can learn from the current situation, and to forge them into useful knowledge for the future.
In the course of our project, which is the result of cooperation between seven organisations from four countries, we claim as our goal the development of a new, interactive education interface, with a thematic collection of methodologies integrated within. The topics touched upon by the collections are listed below.
-Methodology
-Tools
-Learning skills
-Internet safety
-SEN education
-Digital content-better understanding
-Supporting parents (How to help at home, Learning environment)
The idea of the online supporting learning platform is to enable the teachers to deliver an analogous on-line version of contact activities, maintaining as much as possible the core guiding concepts and principles used in the classroom activities. The interactive online teaching platform would simulate a physical class, enabling the teacher to carry out activities online that are normally done physically in class.
The methodology collection endows teachers with knowledge, ideas, proficiency with various methodologies, and easy-to-use educational materials in this difficult period, with especial emphasis on the education of gifted and special needs children, while simultaneously pointing a way forward toward the digitally-assisted methodology for pedagogy in the future, as well as an understanding of our digitised present and future.
In our project, we especially keep in mind to be able to provide aid to the inclusive education of learning-impeded or otherwise challenged children. With the move of education to digital spaces, it is also very important to ensure that students possess a deeper and more thorough understanding of the operating principles and programming of digital devices, as well as digital creative processes. The skills thus acquired will influence the students’ learning technique, later career choices, and opportunities on the job market. To further strengthen this, we also offer methodological materials to teachers which introduce them to the teaching of algorithmic thinking, coding, robotics and visual creative activities employing digital tools, as well as the inclusion of these into the teaching of other subjects.

The periodic isolation caused by COVID-19 requires new cooperative techniques from teacher and student alike. Teachers have to get to know new channels of communication and cooperation, and provide aid to their students in independent learning, learning techniques, online forms of contact-keeping and cooperation, and time management. The skills thus acquired will be very useful to the students in the future as well, since COVID-19 also fundamentally influences the job market, as well as the forms of work and workplace cooperation. With the improvement of these “soft” skills, the chances of their success in the workplace improve as well.
The quarantine period in spring also posed great difficulties to the parents. We also designate as a goal the creation of educational materials which can be used by teachers to assist parents in the fields of learning techniques, learning organisation and internet safety.
Based on the above, the interactive framework and methodological materials to be produced by our project serve the renewal of the pedagogical profession and provide it with answers for the challenges of the 21st century, independently from the COVID-19 situation. It assists teachers in formulating methodologies which contain activities, information formats and visual effects which are familiar and appropriate for children growing up in the 21st century.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 299994 Eur

Project Coordinator

Abacusan Studio Oktatasszervezo Nonprofit Kft & Country: HU

Project Partners

• Kids Life Skills asbl
• M-Around Tanacsado es Szolgaltato Korlatolt Felelossegu Társaság
• EOTVOS LORAND TUDOMANYEGYETEM
• Stichting Hogeschool Utrecht
• INTERONLINE COOPERACION 2001, AIE
• Giving Hungary (Adományozó Magyarország) Kulturális és Adománygyűjtő-szervező Alapítvány