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Digital readiness and capacity building of humanities professors in universities through partnership with digital technologies companies

2021-1-LT01-KA220-HED-0000311242021Cooperation partnerships in higher educationfinalized
Countries: LT|RO|EL|PL|BG|IT · Grant: €260,520
Cooperation between educational institutions and businessDigital skills and competencesDigital content, technologies and practices

Objectives

The implementation of the proposed activities and the achievement of the expected results will enable wider dissemination and broader application of the modern digital technologies in a way that is accessible and understandable for humanitarian specialists. At the same time, DigitUni contributed to avoid the danger of over-technologization and over-digitization of the humanitarian knowledge and teaching process. As it is especially important for university professors in the humanities community not to lose focus in such crisis moment and not to swing too much in the digital direction at the expense of the humanitarian one. A balanced approach, taking into account the specifics of the humanitarian fields, like the DigitUni proposes, will have a serious resonance and impact in university circles.

Background

In the complex context of the Covid-19 global pandemics, the university education has been suddenly and heavily forced to adapt almost immediately to an online teaching environment and to transform lectures, classes and training process accordingly. The vast & long-term closure of the universities has pressured them for restructuring and reorientation, both in the teaching methods and in the form of training delivery. This has caused stress among the teaching staff and disruptions in the teaching proces. The negative effects have been & still are especially strong & visible for humanities subjects & professors/assistants. That is why it is really important the university professors in humanities to quickly develop & enhance their skills and competences in the field of digital technologies & their application to create and apply digital resources in the learning process. Therefore, a project like DigitUni is the great importance for maintaining this basic branch of human knowledge which the humanities undoubtedly represent.

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