The overall objective of the project was to strengthen capacity of adult educators/training professionals to build and sustain effective group dynamics in digital education settings, so to better engage their online learners. The specific objectives were: 1. to improve educators’ competences about the specifics of building and sustaining effective online group dynamics and ensuring high level of learners’ experience in digital classrooms through development of Guidelines and a Resource Library on the topic. 2.To increase educators’ knowledge and skills to offer and maintain high level of interaction and involvement of students in digitally delivered lessons and sessions through creating an interactive data base with hands-on energisers, warm-up and wrap-up activities suitable for online environment, as well as video resources how to easily apply them. 3. To create a network of educational professionals who are knowledgeable how to ensure the same level of interaction and learners’ involvement in online and physical teaching environments. 4. To promote cross-sector and transnational cooperation between partner countries and active exchange of lessons learnt between educational providers from formal/non-formal/informal areas.
The COVID 19 pandemic and the recent developments in teaching tools posed new challenges in front of educators and training professionals. Most of them had to quickly shift from face-to-face group settings to online classrooms, where they had to ensure the same level of interaction and involvement of learners and improve their ability to facilitate interaction, collaboration and communication through digital technologies. The project outputs - GUIDELINES for adult educators on how to better set up effective group dynamics in online learning environment, a RESOURCE LIBRARY with European and world practices in the area, PRACTICAL EXERCISES applicable in 6 different types of teaching domains, a series of the T4T webinars with a collection of testimonials, a Virtual Multimedia Exhibition, the creation of the international T4T Community – provided educators with the necessary knowledge and skills and supported them in improving their competences in developing and maintaining effective group dynamics in online environment and helped them be more effective, capable and confident when preparing for and delivering their online lessons.