According to the data of "Education and Training Monitor", the use of ICT in educational centers is still very poor. The European countries have thus published national digitization plans of institutions, indicating a number of features that they must have. Among the objectives of these plans, it is possible to find the establishment of a figure (digital animator) responsible for the increase of digitization in the institution. However, adult centers often do not possess the their faculty a figure able to drive their institution through the digitization process. The project therefore aims to promote the use of ICT in adult centers, in line with the horizontal priority "open and innovative education". This will be achieved through the implementation of a specific goal: the enhancement of skills and transversal skills of teachers in ICT applied to education, in line with the specific priorities "strengthening the teaching profession". The project ultimately aims to contribute to a systemic change in the teaching mode, making it more innovative and thus enhancing the quality of itself; and sensitize adult centers, public bodies and local communities on the importance of the use of ICT in the teaching methodology. The Consortium of the Project is composed by the next partners: - Inercia Digital S.L. (ES), leader organisation. SME - VET provider. - IES Jacarandá (ES). Institute of adult education. - University Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna (PL). University focused on educational research, innovative teaching methods and e-learning. - Consorzio Lavoro e Ambiente (IT). Vocational training agency. - Teaching Staff Training Center Teleorman (RO). Responsible of professional development of teachers of the region. - Hendek Halk Egitim Merkezi Müdürlügü (TU). Adults educational center. - Sinergia s.c.s. (IT). Non-profit organisation active in lifelong learning field. The project involves the creation of two Intellectual Outputs. The first IO consists in a toolkit for developing digitization strategies for adult education, aimed at updating the skills of teachers on the subject. It includes: - Definition of best practices of digitization of adult centers. - Knowledge sharing between experts and target group. - Definition of training content. - Delivery of the training. - Experimentation through pilot of plans for digitizing adult centers. To make more efficient the delivery of the training course, a JSTE of five days will be organized at the University AHE (Poland), which will be focused on the following topics: - Learning environments for integrated digital teaching. - Implementation / expansion of the networks, connectivity, access. - Workshops for creativity and entrepreneurship. - Electronic registers and cloud repositories. - Data security. - Media and social networks in teaching. - Information quality, copyright and privacy - search, selection and organization of information. - Development of computational thinking. - Open educational resources (OER) and construction of digital content. - Collaboration and communication network. During the development of the project, a web community platform - IO2 - will be designed and implemented to make the training successful and to provide a constant updating of the teachers. The creation of a learning community online platform (peer learning) aims to become a reference point for the community of teachers,adult centers leaders, experts in education and ICT, to get the constant updating of innovative strategies, tools and methodologies, in order to be aware of the constant technological advances and requirements of educational environments. The main result of the project will be the deployment of an innovative methodology for the development of strategies for digitizing adult educational centers. The project will the provide public authorities of the education sector with useful tools to use in the pursuit of their policies, such as: - The toolkit - IO1 - will be a tool to improve knowledge and soft skills of the digital animator (as well as teachers and adult centers administrators), relevant for the proper implementation of a digitization strategy of the adult centers. - The web community platform - IO2 - will be used by the users as tools of long-life upgrading of their own competences and knowledge in the field of information and communication technologies, and especially in the use of them in adult centers. The progress and results of the projects will be constantly pubblished according to the dissemination plan that will be elaborted at the beginning of the project. Furthermore, five multiplier events will be organised next to the end of the project to inform stakeholders and other adult centers about the tools and content that have been created during the development of the project.
According to the data of the Education and Training Monitor report, the implementation of ICT in educational centres leave a lot to desire. The European countries and their education institutions have thus published national plans for several levels of education in which a set of requirements are expected to comply with, including the presence of an ICT leader that helps the organisation through the digitalisation process. Adult centres, however, don’t always have access to such profiles. The project aims to promote the use of ICT in adult centres, in line with the horizontal priority "open and innovative education". This will be achieved through the implementation of a specific goal: the enhancement of skills and transversal skills of teachers in ICT applied to education, in line with the specific priorities "strengthening the teaching profession". The project ultimately aims to contribute to the transition into a modern teaching approach, one not just involving ICT but depending on it, and at the same time to raise the awareness of the adult centres, public bodies and local communities of the importance of the use of ICT in an ever-changing world, where education needs to move at the same pace as society. The partnership is composed of: - Inercia Digital S.L. (ES), adult training centre and VET centre, working as coordinators. - IES Jacarandá (ES), public centre with an adult education unit. - University Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna (PL), university focused on educational research, innovative teaching methods and e-learning. - Consorzio Lavoro e Ambiente (IT), vocational training agency. - Casa Corpului Didactic Teleorman (RO), adult education centre responsible of professional development of teachers of the region. - OLTU HALK EGITIMI MERKEZI MUDURLUGU (TR). Adult education centre. - Sinergia s.c.s. (IT). Non-profit organisation active in the lifelong learning sector. The project main result is the Toolkit for developing digitalisation strategies for adult education centres, aimed at updating the skills of teachers on the field of ICT and at helping the administrative staff design and execute a plan to start the transition into the digital era. It includes: - Training manual composed of 5 modules for strategy development and 5 modules for ICT training - A book of best practices with 43 cases of study regarding ICT implementation - Pilot activity results with 7 digitalisation plans - Strategy table to define your own digitalisation strategy To make more efficient the delivery of the training course, a JSTE of five days was organised at the University AHE (Poland), focused on the following topics: - E-learning and learning environments for integrated digital teaching - Creating and maintaining documentation - Data security - Information quality, copyright and privacy - Search, selection and organisation of information - Development of computational thinking. - Open educational resources (OER) and construction of digital content. - Development of interactive e-learning content - Use of new tools in class - Use of interactive whiteboard - Use of collaborative tools for efficient work The main target group of the project were teachers from adult education centres with the knowledge and motivation to lead a digitalisation process, and the headmasters and assistants that would develop the strategy to implement such transition. The project has allowed seven adult education centres from the partnership or linked to them, through the 14 participants that attended the training activity, to increase their ICT competences, understanding and adoption, and to lay down a plan to implement a digitalisation change in the mid-term. The main production of the project, the Toolkit for developing digitalisation strategies, has been highly regarded by the partner’s participants as well as for the external participants of the activities, and have been included totally or partially in the curricula of several adult education centres.