The Use of Web2.0 and Asynchronous Education Tools in Distance Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

The Use of Web2.0 and Asynchronous Education Tools in Distance 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: Pedagogy and didactics; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

COVID19 had and will continue to have many devastating impacts on all. The educational systems had to adapt very quickly and research is now showing that remote education and e-training activities are increased.

The changes observed in information and communication technologies change social life as well as reshape the educational and business environments that require access to information, creating information, and using information. Today, education should be in an approach that equips students according to the uncertainty, complexity and technological needs of the future, in accordance with the phenomena that come into our lives such as cybernetics, robotics, big data, nano technology, artificial intelligence, global citizenship and the digital age and the concept of “Industry 4.0”.
Remote education is one of the areas where technology is used the most. In many countries of the world, a fast and compulsory transition has been made to distance education due to the pandemic. Distance education is an educational process in which the student is active, contributes to the content, uses different web2.0 and asynchronous training tools, and allows individual development. For this reason, the starting point of our project is to provide a quality and efficient education in distance education, to be active teachers and students, and to use different web2.0 and asynchronous education tools effectively.

KEY OBJECTIVES
TiDE bring together a strategic partnership of schools and civil society NGOs from the UK, Turkey, Slovenia, Italy, Portugal and Lithuania:
-To contribute to the more efficient and effective distance education through the exchange of good practices in the 6 participating countries
-To contribute to the development of teachers in personal and professional areas in the distance education process
-To contribute to the most effective and efficient use of distance education by students
-Contributing to the institutional capacity of partner institutions in distance education.

TARGET GROUPS:
1. Teachers and other educators who guide students in the effective use of technology, web2.0 and asynchronous educational tools in education. In addition, the person who organizes education according to the individual differences, learning speed and style of each student is the teacher. For these reasons, teachers have a great role to play in order to realize an effective distance education and they must be active in these areas.
2. Students. In order to be an effective distance education, our students must have knowledge and skills about distance education processes, web2.0 and asynchronous education tools.

ACTIVITIES
4 TPM and 1 LTT activities. Each TPM activity will take 2 days, LTT activity will take 5 days. Four participants from each institution will take part in the first TPM, three participants for other TPMs, and 3 participants from each institution in LTT activity.
The 1st TPM will be held in Italy. In the project kick-off meeting, all details related to the partners’ getting to know each other, management, budget, tangible outputs, activities, schedule, Quality Assurance and to realize a good project will be decided.
The 2nd TPM will be held in Lithuania. In this meeting, the content, design and interface of the Project Web Site, which is the tangible output of our project, will be determined and work will be done.
The 3rd TPM will be held in Turkey. It is the meeting where the design of the Web2.0 Tools Handbook, which is the tangible output of our project, the determination of the Web2.0 tools to be included in the booklet, and its effective use in distance education, its advantages and disadvantages will be discussed.
The 4th TPM will be held in Portugal. It is the meeting where the design of the Asynchronous Training and Tools Handbook, which is the tangible output of our project, the determination of the asynchronous training tools to be included in the booklet, its effective use in distance education, its advantages and disadvantages will be discussed.
The LTT meeting will be held in Slovenia. This activity is the meeting where the 3 tangible outputs created in cooperation with the partner institutions during the project are transferred to the trainers of the partner institutions effectively.

LONG TERM RESULTS
Teachers will have an effective lesson management by using web2.0 and asynchronous education tools to be used in distance education. Students will be successful students with quality distance education, institutions that can provide education and training support during extraordinary periods such as the Institutions Pandemic. The project will be disseminated with these studies such as the project website, the website of our institutions, the posters with the project logo, brochure, pen and notepad, key chain distribution, sharing on social media, informative meetings suitable for the target group specified, local press news, project boards, video, etc.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 99123 Eur

Project Coordinator

Restorative Justice for All International Institute cic & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Instituto de Educação CIC
• Gumushacikoy Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• TIBER UMBRIA COMETT EDUCATION PROGRAMME
• Drustvo Bodi svetloba
• KUTLUBEY OKULLARI EĞİTİM TİCARET A.Ş.
• Vilniaus technologiju mokymo centras
• Merzifon Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi