Specially Digitalised (Special Learning Disability) Erasmus Project

Project Title

Specially Digitalised (Special Learning Disability)

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: Research and innovation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The COVID-19 Pandemic process, which has an impact all over the world, has led to a rapid increase in the digitalization of the education system. According to the goals of EU research and innovation policy, transferring information as soon as possible using digital and collaborative technology is a necessity of digitalization, and modernizing the education system with new methods and techniques is a fundamental goal. According to the European Commission’s Research and Innovation Strategies, the importance of the Innovation Union in transforming Europe into a world-class digital education centre is emphasized. The most important feature of our project is to improve the design thinking skills and competencies of students with special learning difficulties. In this context, the successful completion and dissemination of Virtual Materials are directly related to this goal. Created to arouse the curiosity of 21st-century students, digital applications are very popular around the world. Accordingly, the products considered are aimed to bring the students with special learning difficulties to similar standards with their peers by making the learning experience more effective. Within the scope of the project, virtual training materials and applications supported by the partners will be developed. After developing the curriculum, it is aimed to increase the motivation of our students, teachers and parents with virtual e-book applications containing theoretical and practical information. The project partners attach great importance to the e-book applications, which are among the project’s intellectual outputs, to reach students in different cultural areas. The idea output of the project that will meet this need is the e-learning toolkit. In this context, practices that will enable individuals in need in the entire education community to easily access these intellectual outputs have been determined. In this context, while students can access virtual materials quickly and easily, teachers will be able to digitally evaluate their students’ learning efficiency. Every learning-teaching activity in the system has been designed with great care in order to prevent possible problems from getting deeper. In another situation, it has been determined that students with special learning difficulties have serious problems in meeting their practical education needs, although they can find the information that will meet the theoretical information in the distance education documents. This basic problem causes the students diagnosed with special learning difficulties to not reinforce their theoretical knowledge in practice and it has been determined that they have a negative attitude towards school. Based on this problem, the project aims to support and develop students with special learning difficulties. Thus, it is expected to support the theoretical and practical training of students with special learning difficulties in a virtual environment and to increase the interest in school. The main purpose of the project is to design, develop, implement and evaluate additional digital content (e-books and e-learning). In line with this purpose of the project, the project has a partnership structure with very serious experience. Institutions with very ambitious expert staff have been preferred in terms of both content creation and software. The main task distribution in the project was made according to the expertise of the project partners. Virtual e-book, curriculum development as well as virtual e-materials will be prepared per its purpose. Istanbul Provincial Directorate of National Education will make serious contributions to the publication of the project in 39 different districts of Istanbul.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 184294 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTANBUL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU & Country: TR

Project Partners

• ANADOLU UNIVERSITY
• MEDIA CREATIVA 2020, S.L.
• Association Euni Partners
• CASA CORPULUI DIDACTIC “SPIRU HARET” IASI
• Agrupamento de Escolas António Correia Oliveira
• ISTANBUL SABAHATTIN ZAIM UNIVERSITY