The project responds to the current situation associated with the covid-19 epidemic and its impact on university teaching. It turns out that when moving teaching to the online environment, it is not possible to implement standard teaching procedures and it is necessary to develop new ways of working with students. The failure of the realization of the student exchange programs (Erasmus, Ceepus, etc.) minimizes the internationalization of studies and reduces the competences of students in intercultural contact. At the same time, the current situation provides an opportunity to accelerate the response to the development of digital technologies and to change the curricula of study programs to meet the requirements of the labor market (Industry 4.0). It turns out that the online implementation of semester activities requires a reduction in frontal teaching and an increase in students' independent research and study activities. To move to this type of work, it is necessary to motivate students with the increased social impact of their activities. The project therefore introduces the creation of electronic publications into teaching. The applicant has developed a new type of electronic publication next-book (the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic TL02000530). At the same time, in the first wave of the epidemic, UP tested teaching based on the creation of a next-book (in the OPVVV project, CZ.02.2.69 / 0.0 / 0.0 / 16_018 / 0002675): the protrusion is a next-book related to the covid 19 epidemic (communication with masks, etymology of new words, political rhetoric). The submitted project will introduce this method of teaching at participating universities (Debrecen, Lisbon, UP). The form of teaching takes the following form: courses that have interdisciplinary contact are identified at partner universities. Students will create a next-book in these courses in consultation with teachers, in which they will present the basic issues and questions for discussion. The next-book is created by the students themselves, they use the complete multimedia content of the Internet, interactive graphs, formulas, etc. When creating the publication, they share notes in the publication, chat about the topic and structure of the text. At the end of the semester, students publish a publication on the Internet (with an ISBN number) and present it to students from a partner institution. Students from the participating universities then comment on the content and method of processing the topic, proposing revisions. This aspect strengthens competences in foreign languages. The resulting next-books are then made available to the media and literary portals for reading by the general public. The proposed method of semester work at the university emphasizes the following aspects: a/ active participation of students in teaching and in the form of online teaching, b/ motivation of students to deeper knowledge of the studied topics to be able to write about it independently and create their own author's texts to be read , c/ establishing international cooperation as a standard course of the semester on the basis of a stable response to the learning outcomes of the partner institution.
Our objectives were to enhance new methods for online teaching which would allow for a full immersion experience in the digital space in the case of a future pandemics or similar situations where the online teaching would be the only possible form of teaching. These methods we developed are interactive online tools such as nextbooks, interactive websites, new curricula and teaching materials and pilot testing of innovated courses focusing on Digital Humanities or English programmes at partner universities. During the implementation the project team decided to put more focus on other digital platforms, because nextbook platform was primarily designed for distant teaching and in the course of the implementation, the dynamics of the pandemic changed drastically: instead of facing the distant teaching the project team had to face more hybrid forms of teaching. For this reason, alongside nextbooks, the project team focused on creating interactive digital platforms which can be more effective in the hybrid teaching. In all the platforms created the active participation of students was one of the main characteristics.
We applied for this project because of the need to re-structure the online teaching methods which all the members of academic community (teaching staff, students, administrators) were forced to implement in their daily routine because of the pandemic COVID 19. The pandemic started all the sudden and the academic workers were not ready to face the situation. All universities tried to adapt to changes in the pandemic, most of the teaching was put into practice by switching the original content of the study to the online environment, however sometimes with lack of efficiency. The technology development didn´t go hand in hand with the application in the everyday academic praxis. The online digital tools we were using at the beginning of the pandemic were not developed enough and did not cover all the needs for fully functional academic teaching and learning and the life-like digital communication in the digital classroom was far from reachable. In this context, all partner universities applied to the project to develop teaching methodologies, curricula, and materials, enabling the exchange and implementation of best practices from all three institutions and encompassing the inclusion of individual research activities of students based on the production of electronic publications, while promoting the professional dialogue between students, and the direct reflex of results of their work in the taught courses. Now, even after the pandemic, the online form of teaching remains a very effective teaching modality and frequently used. Because of the pandemic we discovered online tools which have proven to be efficient even in the post-pandemic context. This is mostly due to time saving and work efficiency and green philosophy (avoiding long distance travels and instead using digital online tools for meetings and cooperation). The newly produced materials were also tested in real time teaching in form the pilot courses at each of the partner universities. The HUGOD project responded to the current situation in university education related to the COVID-19 pandemic while following the contemporary advancement of digital technologies and the transformation of requirements for knowledge and skills of university graduates for the future.