Stepping Up to Technology in Adult Education towards Awareness, Assessment and Access Erasmus Project

Project Title

Stepping Up to Technology in Adult Education towards Awareness, Assessment and Access

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: Open and distance learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The quality of education and learning is one of the Europe 2020 objectives to promote an intelligent, sustainable and inclusive growth of the society. The adult education sector can contribute significantly to the aforementioned growth thanks to the integration of digital tools in learning paths and in the creation of e-learning material for adults.The “AAA-Stepup2ICT” project was aimed at developing training materials and tools to support the professional development of adult educators which play an important role in improving the quality of adult education. The project partners from Italy, Belgium, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland have cooperated in the creation of training materials for adult educators to support their training tasks and offers. The partnership was composed of adult education centres, universities with special focus on adult education and competences in developing online training material.AAA-Stepup2ICT is targeted to adult educators, who are key to the success of adults’ development, to enhance their competences in the use of ICT in the different phases of learning of an adult.During the two years of the project the partners have created an andragogic handbook “ICT for adult educators” (O1) that describes the situation of adult education in the partners countries, it illustrates the profile of an adult educator and the perceived importance of the use of ICT on behalf of the educators themselves. The handbook also contains a categorisation of the educational process (divided into 6 domains), examples of learning activities on the use of ICT in adult education and a description of digital tools to be used during the learning process. The partners have created different open educational resources (OER) which describe activities and tools to be used during learning activities of adults (Output 3) and an online training path for adult educators to enhance professional competences for adult training sessions (Output) 2. The online training programme is structured in 6 modules: Planning and coordinating a training; assessing training needs; Designing training content; Developing training content; Delivering a training; Evaluating a training.Activities and exercises have been created for each module and upon completion the user receives an online badge acknowledging the competences reached within the training module. An online “community” (http://www.stepup2ict.eu/community/) has been created to contribute to the topic with own OER or to share ideas and innovation of the adult education sector. At the moment 200 people are part of the community.The material has been evaluated and validated through constant revisions carried out by 80 adult educators. The evaluation activity has taken place during different online training sessions in each partners country and during a learning/training activity organized in Italy for participants of all partners countries. After each training course there has been an analysis of the results and an improvement phase of the created material. Each partner has organized 1 multiplier event for dissemination of the project results in all partner countries.All AAA-Stepup2ICT outputs and results are available on the project website at: http://www.stepup2ict.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 279895 Eur

Project Coordinator

Training 2000 psc & Country: IT

Project Partners

• UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA
• KLAIPEDOS UNIVERSITETAS
• Instituut voor KennisManagement
• ASOCIACION INSTITUTO EUROPEO DE ESTUDIOS PARA LA FORMACION Y EL DESARROLLO