Digitization is the most recent term when it comes to describing social change. We encounter the "digital revolution" in all areas of our world and last, but not least in education. At the political level, strategies are being developed: The European Commission identifies "the need for every citizen to have at least basic digital skills in order to live, work, learn and participate in modern society” (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/policies/digital-skills). Digital media are an essential part of adult education and learning. However, adult education still has to address the charge of not responding adequately to the existing digital skills challenges. This inspired the DICE project: We believe that all learners at any age can manifest and practice digital knowledge if they are taught openly, participatively and appreciatively. This type of teaching requires highly motivated, well-educated teachers and excellent training materials. There are many reasons to promote "learning from colleagues", experience becomes more and more when shared. Professional learning communities consist of specialists who constantly update and expand their expertise. High quality educational approaches and ICT tools are used to support the development and evaluation of digital skills. Accordingly, the main challenge of the project is to discover, compare and learn from each other innovative pedagogical approaches to improve the quality in each of our facilities. This quality improvement serves our teachers, our students and should increase the demand for our services.. Project objectives Exchange best practice on digital educational experiences, teaching skills and digital skills of teachers, as well as new didactic and methodological approaches to support teachers / trainers and increase the motivation and commitment of staff (and learners!) for lifelong learning, especially regarding new technologies. The exchange takes place within the framework of international trainings, the results (at least 3 examples per partner) are presented in a compendium at the end of the project. The collocated compendium serves adult education staff to prepare and deliver high quality courses and prepares learners to participate in modern society and for the needs of the digital labour market. The second result will be a virtual library that is easily accessible and will delight a wide audience for the project. Material on new teaching techniques, on digital skills, on lifelong digital learning, on innovative approaches in different countries within and outside our partnership is collected by the partners and stored here in the virtual library. During the two training events each partner will produce a video about good practice examples. These videos also will be part of the library. The entire project progress is critically monitored by the internal evaluator. The DICE consortium consists of large and small educational institutions from Northern, Central, Southern and Eastern Europe located in large and small towns and rural areas: coordinator AT, partners from IT, CZ, ES, RO and DK. The Danish partner will bring it's extraordinary expertise, coming from one of the Top 4 countries all over the world, regarding digital competitiveness. This diversity of educational and socio-cultural environments will create a synergy leading to efficient exchange of good practice and new experiences in the two short term staff trainings. Well-coordinated working arrangements, clear distribution of tasks and transparent project and budget management create the framework for the successful completion of the project, all partners are committed and responsible, good results can be secured. The planned project activities are regular communication to coordinate the tasks, 2 TPM for quality management, 2 LTTA for staff training and comparison of good practice examples, ongoing collection of material for the compendium and the virtual library, 6 videos will be produced, 4 newsletters will generated, accompanying evaluation and dissemination will be done. Transparent tasks and verification of compliance with the set milestones ensure that the project's goals are achieved. DICE projects impact will be acquisition of digital skills. Courses that address both the needs of learners and teachers are particularly successful. Positive learning attitude, pleasant learning environment, good teaching material and teachers well prepared in both, terms of content as well as pedagogically-didactically, are a guarantee of success. The results of the project also help to meet the demands of the international labour market and will support the challenges of the modern knowledge-based society. Sustainability of results is given by uploading and presenting them after the project's lifetime on the partner's websites, which will continue to be fully accessible. Gathered information and experience will be accessible to all interested professionals and the public.
We wanted to promote the exchange of best practices by creating mechanisms that allow the development, monitoring and recognition of teachers' digital competences in a multicultural environment. We wanted to achieve this goal by sharing experiences and knowledge of digital teaching, critically accompanied by the internal evaluator (ELC, ES). We also wanted to create a compendium with the proven DICE examples and make it available to the public for implementation. Another goal was to set up the virtual library DICE. All objectives focused on adult education staff to attract highly motivated, well-trained teachers and excellent teaching materials. Further goals were to support adult education providers to gain insight into state-of-the-art ICT course descriptions, to improve the didactic's and digital skills of trainers and, in connection with this, to increase the motivation of both our employees and our learners. Advanced goals contain the topics - Improving the employability of (older) workers - Strengthening of self-confidence through the development of digital skills in adults (follow-up with new media or social media) - New teaching approaches to support teachers and trainers - Provide quality, innovative tools for all adult education providers
The "digital revolution" in all areas of our world was already underway when we submitted this project. Especially in the field of education, the term DIGITAL SKILLS has become indispensable. The European Commission saw “the need for every citizen to have at least basic digital skills to live, work, learn and participate in modern society” (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/ en/policies/digital -skills). Digital media were already an essential part of adult education and learning back then. This has increased dozens of times since then, particularly due to the effects of the Covid19 pandemic. Educational offers in general and adult education had to face the accusation of not reacting adequately to the existing challenges in the area of digital skills. This inspired the DICE project: we thought that all learners of all ages can manifest and practice digital knowledge if this knowledge is conveyed in an open, participatory and appreciative manner. There were many reasons to encourage 'learning from peers', experience always grows when shared. Professional learning communities, made up of specialists who are constantly updating and expanding their expertise, should serve our teachers and our students and lead to an increasing demand for our services. Another problem area emerged during the Covid-19 crisis: the so-called DIGITAL GAP. The "digital gap" is the term used to describe the different approaches of the so-called digital natives, those born into the information age, and older generations when it comes to digitization. Accordingly, “the young” adapt more quickly to innovations in the digital space, to new applications and technologies, “the older” are slower. This project should also help to bridge this DIGITAL GAP.