Relevant assessment and pedagogies for inclusive digital education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Relevant assessment and pedagogies for inclusive digital education

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Open and distance learning; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)

Project Summary

Crisis caused by COVID-19 pandemic highlighted many old problems of HE that worsened the influence of the pandemic on higher education. In many higher education institutions (HEIs) the move to distance learning has been an opportunity to expand flexible learning approaches. Digital solutions need relevant content, adequate instructional models, effective teaching practices, and a supportive learning environment.
Therefore it is necessary to co-create, implement and share innovative pedagogies and aligned assessment for relevant and inclusive digital education in order to deal with the COVID-19 induced and similar crises and to support meaningful digital transformation of HEIs on the EU level. It is the overall objective of RAPIDE project.
Needs analysis shows that students from partner institutions were satisfied with the level of their teachers used IT tools during online classes but also call for innovative open pedagogies suitably implemented in an online environment as well as for more communication and interaction, support for student, relevant learning close to demand of their future profession and needs. At the same time, there is a scepticism onthe level of HEI decision makers and educational leaders about valuability of innovative pedagogies.

Specific objectives of the project are:
SO1: to implement and evaluate innovative and inclusive pedagogies that support student engagement, practical skills development and deep approach to learning in an online environment by digitally and pedagogically competent and confident teachers
SO2: to support teachers to use relevant and inclusive assessment methods related to innovative pedagogies
SO3: to support students and teachers in the meaningful implementation of innovative pedagogies in an online environment by means of ethical use of learning analytics with special attention given to students at risk
SO4: to bust capacity of HEIs for monitoring and evaluating the implementation of innovative pedagogies in online, blended and distant learning and to perform impact analysis of innovative pedagogies on their digital transformation goals.

Based on that will be produced the following intellectual outputs:
O1. Open educational resources and e-course for flipped classroom and work-based learning for use in an online environment
O2. Toolkit for assessment of students in flipped classroom and work based learning
O3. Learning analytics for flipped classroom and work based learning
O4. Code of practice for HEIs on impact analysis of innovative pedagogies.

Innovation capacity is in co-creating the process of designing pedagogical approaches and tools to support teachers in implementation and students in deep approaches to learning in an online environment. Let us use the opportunity to upgrade online teaching and learning as well as to transfer that knowledge and experience in a blended learning environment and f2f teaching and learning.

RAPIDE partnership consists of five respectable HEIs from four countries. University of Zagreb as coordinator (Faculty of organization and informatics and School of Medicine) and University of Rijeka (HR), The Open University (UK), Delft University of Technology (NL) and Goethe University (GE).
The project has two primary target groups: teachers and decision makers. Ultimate beneficiaries are students. At first, project activities are focused on rising capacities of project partners and then to disseminate and share to wider HEI community in EU and beyond.
There will be benefits for the partner institutions because their teachers will participate in train the trainer activities for innovative pedagogies for online learning environment, especially flipped classroom (FC) and work based learning (WBL), assessment methods aligned with them such as peer assessment and student project assessment, use of learning analytics to support students at risks. Trainers will perform workshops for their peers at their home HEIs.
Further, the RAPIDE project will produce recommendations for HEIs how to link innovative pedagogies with their strategic goals and measure their impact related especially to the institution’s digital transformation plan. This objective will in the first phase engage decision makers and educational leaders within partner institutions and in the second beyond project partners.
To support training open educational resources will be produced and a self paced e-learning course will be designed. All materials, supporting tools for students dashboard and peer assessment as well as best practice examples will be open for educators in EU and globally to use and adapt for their own needs and purposes.
Innovative open pedagogies and their strategic alignment to HEIs strategic goal,especially those from digital transformation plan, will bust capacities of HEI to counter challenges caused by COVID-19 pandemic and similar crises as well as to prepare HEIs to meet their mission and vision in modern society and economy.

Project Website

https://rapide-project.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 219085 Eur

Project Coordinator

SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU & Country: HR

Project Partners

• THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
• SVEUCILISTE U RIJECI
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
• JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITATFRANKFURT AM MAIN