In various projects, the Institute for Education and Media has carried out research on the quality of digital educational media with its partners and developed differentiated quality criteria for the evaluation of educational media in connection with the implementation of the European media competition, Comenius-EduMedia-Award. It was found that the exploration, evaluation and dissemination of high-quality educational media is not enough to improve the learning outcomes. Obviously, high-quality educational media will only be fully effective if they are integrated into a didactically designed teaching and learning concept and teachers have acquired the necessary media skills. From a media didactic point of view, educational media have the enormous potential to make teaching and learning processes different, as media-supported teaching and learning arrangements, self-learning in learning, cooperative scenarios and flexible offers to individualize learning offers. This accommodates the diversity of teachers and learners. (Kerres 2017). A key role in this process is the DIGITAL COMPETENCE of teachers, lecturers and trainers in the didactically relevant handling of digital media or with the digitization of teaching and learning environments and learning processes. The partnership therefore aims to promote the teaching, development and consolidation of adult educators' digital literacy through integration (methodological inclusion and practical use) and procedurally selected, exemplary digital educational media into media-based teaching and learning arrangements. DIGITAL COMPETENCE is the scientific basis (Baacke1980, Bauer 2017, Swertz 2018): the interplay of abilities, skills and certainties with regard to differentiation and decision-making requirements, as well as didactic responsibility on the basis of structural, technical and factual media knowledge, aesthetic and Ethical media awareness, critical media analysis and didactically differentiated built, context-appropriate media design. The project sees itself in this sense as an enlargement of the knowledge and action contexts, but also as an enrichment of the perspectives and options of the didactic arrangements in the adult education context and thus as a promotion of the methodological and didactic quality of teaching competence in the context of currently increasing digitization of teaching and learning Learning cooperation in adult education. (see Baacke 1980, Bauer 2017). DIGITAL COMPETENCE for adult education teachers - secure knowledge of the quality of digital educational media and the ability to evaluate it (quality criteria), - the ability to select suitable digital educational media from the oversupply for their own course design (database), - to plan, design and implement own course concepts with digital education media and blended learning courses and - The ability to engage with educators and learners to share experiences of using digital educational media and designing Blended Learnig courses (WEB community). In the project these proposals and results are summarized in the e-book "DIGITAL COMPETENCE", systematized and theoretically substantiated and disseminated via the WEB (WEBPORTAL). The partnership will work on the following tasks and disseminate results in the "DigiMedia" project to promote the digital literacy of adult education teachers: 1. EVALUATION TOOL "QualiMedia" (O1) for adult educators to evaluate digital educational media with quality criteria for identifying appropriate digital educational media. 2. Education Media Database "MediaData" (O2), with excellent and valued digital educational media from the European media competitions 2020 and 2021 and workshops in participating countries. 3. COURSE MODEL "DigiKomp" (O3), Exemplary online further education course with country-specific blended learning courses with digital educational media. 4. MEETING POINT "DigiMedia Community" (O4), WEB meeting point as European practice exchange from workshops and media competitions in an internet forum for teachers. 5. eBook "DigiKomp" DIGITAL COMPETENCE (O5), Basic practice perspectives, media assessment, exemplary digital educational media, media usage and media-based teaching and learning arrangements On a responsive WEBPORTAL "DigiMedia" for exemplary digital educational media and media-based teaching and learning arrangements, all project results will be disseminated to promote the development of digital literacy.
The project pursued the PROJECT OBJECTIVE of promoting the teaching, development and consolidation of DIGITAL COMPETENCE by teachers in adult education through integration (methodological integration and practical use) and of procedurally selected, exemplary digital educational media in media-supported teaching and learning arrangements. We assumed that DIGITAL COMPETENCE for teachers in adult education includes: - Secure knowledge of the quality of digital educational media and the ability to evaluate them (quality criteria, O1), - the ability to recognize suitable digital educational media from the oversupply for one's own course design (database, O2), - plan, design and implement your own course concepts with digital educational media and blended learning courses (course model, O3) and - the ability to exchange experiences with teachers and learners in the use of digital educational media and the design of blended learning courses (WEB community, O4). In the project, these suggestions and results were summarized, systematized and theoretically substantiated in the e-book (DIGITAL COMPETENCE. O5) and disseminated via the WEB (project website: www.edumedia-online.eu and websites of the partnership). The partnership therefore worked on the following goals and tasks and disseminated the results in the "DigiMedia" project to promote digital competence of teachers in adult education: 1. EVALUATION TOOL "QualiMedia" (O1) for teachers in adult education to evaluate digital educational media with quality criteria to determine suitable digital educational media. 2. Educational media DATABASE "DataMedia" (O2), with excellent and evaluated digital educational media from the European media competitions 2020, 2021, 2022 and the workshops in the participating countries. 3. COURSE MODEL "DigiKomp" (O3), exemplary online further education courses with country-specific blended learning courses with digital educational media. 4. MEETING POINT "DigiMedia Community" (O4), WEB meeting place as a European practical exchange from workshops and media competitions in an Internet forum for teachers. 5. e-book "DigiKomp" DIGITAL COMPETENCE (O5), Basic practice perspectives, media evaluation, exemplary digital educational media, media use and media-supported teaching and learning arrangements All project results for promoting the development of digital competence were disseminated on the PROJECT PAGE "DigiMedia" www.edumedia-online.eu for exemplary digital educational media and media-supported teaching and learning arrangements.
In various projects, the Institute for Education and Media and its partners have carried out studies on the quality of digital educational media and developed differentiated quality criteria for the evaluation of educational media in connection with the implementation of the European media competition, Comenius-EduMedia-Award. It was found that exploring, evaluating and disseminating high-quality educational media is not enough to improve learning outcomes. Apparently, high-quality educational media only have their full effect when they are integrated into a didactically designed teaching and learning concept and teachers have acquired the necessary media skills. From a media didactic point of view, educational media have the enormous potential to shape teaching and learning processes differently, since media-supported teaching and learning arrangements support self-directed learning, cooperative scenarios and flexible offers for the individualization of learning offers. This accommodates the diversity of teachers and learners. A key role in this process is the DIGITAL COMPETENCE of teachers, lecturers and trainers in the didactically relevant handling of digital media or with the digitization of teaching and learning environments and learning processes. We call DIGITAL COMPETENCE - scientifically supported - the interaction of abilities, skills and security with regard to differentiation and decision-making requirements, as well as didactic responsibility on the basis of structural, technical-factual media knowledge, aesthetic and ethical media awareness, critical media analysis and didactically differentiated built , contextual media design. In this sense, the project sees itself as an enlargement of the knowledge and action contexts, but also as an enrichment of the perspectives and options of didactic arrangements in the context of adult education and thus as a promotion of the methodological and didactic quality of teaching competence in the context of the currently increasing digitization of teaching and learning Learning cooperation in adult education. The partnership therefore set itself the task of promoting the teaching, development and consolidation of DIGITAL COMPETENCE by teachers in adult education. In addition, for the European media competition "Comenius-EduMedia-Award", which is carried out annually by the coordinator with the support of the project partners, new impetus for the quality of media evaluation, the expansion of the European dimension and for the broadening of media offers to promote digital competence in of adult education.