The overall aim was to increase HEI educators' digital and pedagogical competence and availability of digital resources in STEM subjects on a large scale to achieve long-lasting effects in everyday activity on the project partners and other European HEIs. By increasing such competences of educators, it should give them tools and knowledge to produce and implement digital resources and activities (e.g. learning analytics, digital languaging, screencasts, visualisations, and intelligent assessment) for different personalised learning scenarios in pedagogically meaningful ways. This is expected to increase digital competence and skills among the secondary target group (students), to motivate and engage students. The focus was on the combination of pedagogics and technology.
The objective of the project was to increase digital and pedagogical competence of HEI educators and availability of digital resources in STEM subjects on a large scale to achieve long-lasting effects in everyday activity on the project partners and other European HEIs. The objective was to build HEI educators' competence of such instructional design that improves students’ active learning, self-regulated learning and learning engagement with the help of educational technology and learning analytics to provide more effective and personalised support of learners. The Digital Education Action Plan set by the Commission has a priority to make better use of digital technology for teaching and learning and the DigiSTEM project addressed this need. A needs analysis for the target group of HEI STEM educators was carried out, which showed there is no common methodology on how to utilize educational technology in a pedagogically meaningful way in STEM subjects. By building such a methodology, the project aimed to respond to the recognized gap highlighted in educational research-educators have an inadequate competence regarding an effective use of digital tools and resources in education from both pedagogical and technological perspectives