The objectives of WIDE were: - To address the personal and professional well-being of the educational process related to online/blended training which had been put at stake during endless hours of digital learning; - To develop a digital platform and a holistic methodology for online learning; - To improve the competencies of teachers/trainers in the holistic approach to digital education,; - To contribute to the reinforcement of inclusiveness of education systems in the digital era; - To develop innovation for education policies; - To foster participatory and multi-stakeholder approaches to innovation in education.: and - To integrate the dimension of well-being as a crucial one, evaluating the quality and the responsiveness of education systems, and the resilience of learners and teachers/trainers.
The COVID-19 pandemic created the largest disruption of education systems in history, affecting nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 19 countries on all continents. Education providers struggled to integrate Digital Learning into their curricula, i.e., how to reorganize their offer and delivery systems. The concerns were focused on the technical requirements of digital learning, how to exploit the opportunities offered by these systems, how to integrate them into the curricular activity (blended learning), and what kind of skills and competencies teachers and learners should have, to optimize the use of these new tools. The lockdowns in 2020 -21 made it evident that digital learning is changing our approaches and ways of organizing interaction and expression. It also demonstrated that the overload from prolonged internet use was extremely tiring, physically and psychologically. Digital learning implies the need to cope and adopt a so-called “digital mindset”, and the wellness of each involved person (Trainer/teacher, learner). The WIDE project addressed the need for a holistic approach to digital learning: from curriculum design to the methodologies employed that ensure the well-being of both teachers/trainers and learners.