The EDL project aims to develop a training programme for facilitators and students to learn how to manage the flood of emotions, generated by online training, in an appropriate and operative way. The main goal of EDL is to generate a positive impact on the mass of European trainers and trainees in the online training industry, improving the management of this situation, which in most cases is anomalous and has been forced in recent months. In this sense, EDL will pay special attention to both intrapersonal management aspects (stress, anxiety, uncertainty, sleep problems...) and interpersonal aspects (social, family and couple relationships, loneliness...). Moreover, we have the following specific objectives: -Raising awareness of the mental and emotional effects of online training. -To take on board the need to emotionally manage the effects of online training. -To understand the implications of online training from both a personal and social point of view. -In relation to the previous point, to understand the intra- and interpersonal areas of emotional intelligence. -To know the points of improvement of emotional intelligence applied to the formative process. - Improve professional/family conciliation.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, distance or online learning has become a new normal. The pandemic has reminded us how difficult it is for learners to juggle their training with uncertainty in different domains, while facilitators have to manage a workload that multiplies stress and anxiety. Thus, and especially in the context of distance education, the importance of socio-emotional skills in the transmission of content is clear, especially in adult education or andragogy. This term is coined by Malcolm Knowles to distinguish the principles and practices of teaching adults and to contrast it from the theories and practices used to teach children (pedagogy). In this sense, emotional management (whether intrapersonal or interpersonal) in adults is also different from that in children, and although especially during the pandemic much research has been done on the effects of confinement and distance education at school level, little has been said about adult education. The big difference is that while in schools there is a gradual return to face-to-face education, in adult education the trend is definitely towards an online universe. It is essential to increase the success of the training process under such particular conditions.