The ENTICING project aims at seamlessly blending the benefits of Crowdsourcing with the need to upgrade the levels of digital readiness of secondary school teachers in humanities by empowering them with competences and tools that will improve the quality of their teaching and at the same time will render them ready to respond quickly in circumstances of crisis. To this end, the project will develop an innovative, tailored and co-designed training programme to educate teachers on Digital Humanities Crowdsourcing and support them in improving the quality of their teaching. Many studies demonstrate the benefits of crowdsourcing in the teaching process as it increases the engagement of the student rendering them active content developers and contributors in the teaching process. Although at academic level, there has been a significant progress in Digital Humanities, established as a distinct discipline and on crowdsourcing methodologies, still there is an evident lack in the availability of training for teachers and the transfer of scholarly knowledge in the design of tailored training for the professional development of humanities school teachers. ENTICING's specific objectives are the following: 1. Develop a tailored training course for teachers on Digital Humanities Crowdsourcing 2. Equip teachers with skills on applying Digital Humanities concepts and approaches in their teaching 3. Design and maintain a repository of Digital humanities Resources Crowdsourcing initiatives and tools that will increase teachers’ knowledge capital and the availability of quality resources 4. Develop a digital platform to serve as a transnational tool for teachers to host their crowdsourcing initiatives 5. Elaborate guidelines and recommendations on the integration and application of digital technologies in Humanities in secondary schools 6. Contribute to transnational cooperation among teachers and relevant stakeholders
Secondary school pedagogies require attention to the unique needs of students in curricula, to the developmental trajectories of the students in order to obtain 21st century skills, namely regarding the 4cs: collaboration, communication, creativity and critical thinking. The ENTICING project aimed at seamlessly blending the benefits of Crowdsourcing with the need to upgrade the levels of digital readiness of secondary school teachers in Humanities by empowering them with competences and tools to improve the quality of their teaching and at the same time to render them ready to respond quickly in circumstances of crisis. Teachers may use the project's educational content and platform in order to update their teaching material and school activities after the needs of new pedagogical methods for self-directed and inquiry based learning.
Humanities are nowadays an underestimated field and teaching seems rather old fashionned. Most teachers of Humanities were not trained in Digital Humanities methodology in the past, during their undergraduate studies. Moreover, Crowdsourcing, a new way of digital interaction among researchers, is getting spread out in recent times. Affordances of finding ways to implementing them both, Digital Humanities and Crowdsourcing activities in school environment, needed to be derived for the benefit of improving the quality of teachers, their competences and teaching tools. Consequently, secondary schools were beneficiaries of enriched teaching practices, to increase the students' engagement rendering them active, content developers and contributors in the teaching process.