COVID-19 influences the daily work at all schools. In the current situation, In the current situation, which is strongly characterized by the effects of the contact restrictions due to the corona pandemic, it is clear that schools at all levels, i.e. primary, lower and upper secondary, are faced with the challenge of teaching in online formats. The Erasmus+ project SAFE addresses this new and innovative way of learning and teaching in the age of digitization and COVID-19. It is settled in the programme field of school education. The partnership creates awareness concerning the needs to of a didactic approach to eLearning. The approach of SAFE focusses on the use of streaming within school education. The project works on a basic concept for the integration of elearning in daily teaching work. In this basic concept, teachers use tablets or laptops on which, for example, a blackboard application such as LiveBoard, Doceri, or Explain Everything is streamed, with the information on this board and the teacher's language being streamed directly to the learners. This enables the teachers to implement familiar forms of teaching, such as writing on the blackboard or on an overhead projector, in almost the same way and to provide explanations and explanations. Participation can optionally take place online via a live stream or by creating a recording that is later available on a server as a preserve or film for viewing at any time. The SAFE-Streaming concept will be created on the basis of the DISK-Online model. DISK-Online stands for Didactic Interactive Streaming Know-how and this approach is designed for dealing with the challenges of COVID-19 and the technologic challenges at schools and education. The DISK-Online model of Beutner/Pechuel was already presented at the Ministry of Education (NRW) in October 2020 and which will be presented at Deutscher Bundestag (Enquete Commission for Digitisation) in November 2020. The DISK-Online Approach was developped and tested in 2020 under the restrictions of COVID-19 and was also succesfully presented at SITE Interactive Conference USA and Innovate Learning Conference USA in 2020. The feedback was excellent and first implementations at school came to excellent results and support on the sides of the teachers and learners. The DISK-Online approach comes in its basic setting with an increasing level of interaction. Interaction is described from DISK 1 (low teacher-centred interaction) to DISK4 (learner-centred interaction) and can be used at different schools to adjust the teaching to technical restrictions and digital teaching competences. Teachers need an approach which can be used in the classroom with learners who are (a) all are not present in the classroom, or whose learners (b) are only partially present in the classroom or (c) who want to add eLearning elements to their lessons now and in the future. The SAFE project creates an approach using Streamlabs OBS and the streaming platform twitch to enable teacher to deal with the challenges of COVID-19 and to integrate eLearning in a sustainable and transferable way in school education and their lessons. The teachers will be trained on using Streamlabs OBS and the streaming platform within the SAFE project and also multipliers will be trained. This is a way to deal with elearning where learners only need to have a browser and no specific technical or eLearning knowledge and the teachers have a quite easy approach deal with new approaches. SAFE aims to create the streaming concept, to provide an implementation at various schools, to write a handbook for teachers as well as a SAFE-Streaming in School education book and provides an evaluation of the implementation. Moreover, SAFE comes up with a policy paper and a layman´s report to provide recommendations for further school education. SAFE-Streaming in School education book will bel created in English language and provides information on the project, the implementation, a checklist for teachers, hints for teacher, the survey and the evaluation results and insights in the innovative SAFE concept. A part of SAFE will also be an acceptance study in the partner countries to get a European view on acceptances, experiences, problems and chances in the fields of eLearning and streaming in school education. Target groups are teachers, learners and educators.
SAFE aimed to create a SAFE streaming concept, to provide an implementation at various schools, to write a handbook for teachers as well as a SAFE-Streaming in School education book. In addtion to that, the consortium aimed to provide an evaluation of the implementation of the streaming approach. Moreover, SAFE came up with a policy paper and a layman´s report to provide recommendations for further school education. The SAFE-Streaming concept was created on the basis of the DISK-Online model. DISK-Online stands for Didactic Interactive Streaming Know-how and this approach was designed for dealing with the challenges of COVID-19 and the technologic challenges at schools and education.
In times of COVID-19 but also after its end teachers have to deal with the challenges of digital approaches and new technologies. Using conferencing tools is not enough and is at som places already a challenge. But, to deal with groups in hybrid learning approaches, where learners are at home and in the classroom or where teacher become ill and have to teach from home oder to teach also students from other classes where a teacher is missing ist a challenge where schools and teacher will always have to find solutions for. In the SAFE project we created a streaming approach for school education and a modular approach for a teacher training course on streaming and hybrid learning in schools. This approachs helps teachers to deal with the challenges of streaming their classes and to do that in da didactical and pedagogical meaningful way. Here the DISK approach was used to start with teacher centered approaches for beginners (DISK 1 and 2) and to move to learner centered apporaches for teachers who are more experienced in streaming.(DISK 3 and 4). The SAFE streaming approach is based on the DISK approachs and offer school a way improve their digital work and find successful learning settings.