The goal of CAnVASS+ “Content Audio Video mAnagement SyStem” is the realization of a “cognitive” kit for the lifelong learning of teachers. CAnVASS+ kit is aimed at the modernization of didactics through the improvement of teachers’ digital competences. The permanent professional development is a crucial point of the European Union’s strategy for improving the quality of education. The needs analysis for the lifelong professional development of teachers, underlined by Eurydice in the “Teaching Profession in Europe” (2015) shows that teachers perceive themselves prepared for teaching their disciplines, but they feel they need to diversify their methods of teaching. According to the above-mentioned study, training need in these areas is especially high for teachers over 50 years of age, the so-called digital immigrants. To meet these needs, CAnVASS+ provides a kit of integrated tools to enhance the cooperative, digital and open didactics. In particular, CAnVASS+ focuses on three innovative products: 1) CAnVASS+ RESEARCH - a scientific research on best practices concerning the use of new technologies into traditional didactic. In particular, the study identifies and analyzes successful experiences related to 4 thematic areas: a) the digital classes and how to use the technology in the personalization of learning; b) the approach of Challenge Based Learning in Upper Secondary Schools and its impact on the curricula and involvement of students and parents; c) experiences of personalization of learning through the visual learning; d) the construction of new digital competencies related to the work places and its impact on their curricula. 2) CAnVASS+ OER - an open software, with cloud tools and Creative Commons license, for the creation of digital open educational resources and high quality multimedia educational products. CAnVASS+ software will simplify the production of digital learning resources for teachers, helping to spread the use of visual learning techniques. CAnVASS+ OER aims at providing those teachers and trainers interested in combining traditional and digital didactics with an easy-to-use and completely free tool to create their own educational videos and multimedia contents. The software will come with a video tutorial that explains the main functionalities, providing examples on how to use it. 3) CAnVASS + MOOC – an online course, open and free, addressed to teachers and trainers, that develops some topic themes of TALIS and applicable to the management of a digital class. CAnVASS+ course intends to transfer to teachers and tutors the techniques, knowledge and strategies to use technology as a stimulus and an instrument to facilitate the active learning, based on the resolution of problems, student-centered, and able to stimulate critical thinking. CAnVASS+ MOOC develops a course on the following topics: a) the management of the digital classes: from ICT to social media; b) the Challenge Based Learning approach to make the curricula more attractive and interactive for teachers, trainers, students and parents and more performing for the job market; c) the personalization of knowledge through the visual learning; d) the building of new digital competencies related to the work places. The MOOC, in addition to guarantee the continuous training of the school staff, using the CAnVASS+, will promote the use of the software among teachers and trainers in Europe.
CAnVASS + is a project that was developed by 9 organizations from Italy, Greece, Spain, Romania. The objectives pursued by the project were: - Ensure that teachers and trainers received high quality disciplinary, pedagogical and practical training in the field of digital education; - The creation of inclusive and customizable digital tools to strengthen the teachers’ profile; - The development of open and high quality digital educational resources. The CAnVASS + partnership has achieved these objectives thanks to the mobilization of a transnational network that has collaborated in the development of the products, sharing skills and promoting the exchange of good practices and information on how to innovate traditional teaching methods. Benefiting from the constant involvement of teachers, trainers, teaching experts and students in the various stages of development and piloting of project outputs, CAnVASS + has developed the following three intellectual outputs: - A Transnational Research on Good Practices in the Integration of Digital Technologies into Traditional Didactics (IO1): The CAnVASS + Research Report analyzed, elaborated and disseminated the contents of 35 good practices in the digitilization of school activities, selected by the partners on a sample of 77 practices initially identified. The information collected through the video-interviews shot by the consortium formed the backbone of the CAnVASS + training course, providing the guidelines for the design of the contents of the MOOC. The video-interviews were then posted on the Youtube channel and included on the project website, to provide an incentive to teachers interested in innovating school practices; - The CAnVASS + video editor (IO2) is an Open Educational Resource freely accessible by teachers and / or trainers to create multimedia training packages for their students. Developed by the partner Best Cybernetics on the basis of the stimuli provided by the consortium organizations and tested in two different sessions (Alpha and Beta Testing), the CAnVASS + Resource presents a series of interactive scenarios, in which avatar files, videos, texts, images, in-depth boxes can be inserted. Thanks to file compression, the contents created can then be exported and transformed into video files that can be shared via storage platforms and social networks. - The CAnVASS MOOC (IO3) is a free 4-hour Online Training Course for teachers and trainers interested in acquiring basic information on how to innovate their school teaching, using digital technologies to: manage the class; promote inclusion; enhance the inclusion of students with learning difficulties; encourage the development of skills useful for creating a bridge between school and the world of work. The course was created with the coordinated contribution of the partnership and entirely developed through the use of the CAnVASS + Open Educational Resource (IO2). The CAnVASS+ project has also worked to encourage the construction of the CAnvASS+ network, a transnational network of trainers, teachers from primary, secondary and upper secondary schools which can be quantified as follows: - 77 teachers and schools involved in the phase of research on good practices for the application of digital technologies within the classroom; among these, 35 good practices were selected (against the 32 foreseen by the project), and the teachers responsible for their implementation were interviewed to gather information on a series of relevant aspects for the production of the Research Report (IO1); the interviews collected were uploaded on Youtube and on the project website, together with contact details of a reference person, to facilitate the creation of the CAnVASS + project network. - 32 teachers involved in the two training activities of the project (the first held in presence in Marbella; the second held on a virtual platform, due to the COVID-19 restrictions): the activities consisted in the revision of the whole CAnVASS + Kit and allowed to share information relating to the state of the art as regards innovative teaching in the consortium countries. The participating teachers were the first CAnVASS Ambassadors - 160 additional CAnVASS + ambassadors (40 for each partner country) involved by the 32 teachers who took part in the training activity, joining the network for the dissemination and exploitation of project outputs. - 45 primary and secondary schools from the four project countries signed the CAnVASS + Network Agreement, which is an agreement aimed at encouraging the exploitation of project outputs within training institutions of various levels and specializations. - 18 institutes where the consortium's outputs were presented. - 296 people involved in the 9 Multiplier Events held in all partner countries during the project lifetime: 4 of them were held in the first half of the project; 4 in the second half; a final conference at the end of the project. - About 2000 stakeholders (schools, public authorities, vocational education and training bodies, teachers’ trade unions’ representatives, research centers, students’ representatives, etc.) involved at consortium level in the dissemination of Web content and reached with the seven project newsletters.