The world leaders of the UN member states in September 2015, unanimously adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UN 2030 Agenda) in the UN General Assembly. The agenda includes 17 goals, 169 targets and 244 indicators for progress measurement. They are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental. Particularly important for us is Goal 4: to provide inclusive and quality education for all and to promote lifelong learning.The relevant ministries in EU candidate and in EU neighborhood countries have adopted educational development strategies in recent years, which provide guidance on how to improve teaching by applying ICT in accordance with the Goal 4 of the UN 2030 Agenda. The overall objective of the project is to improve the teaching process at the HEIs in the Region 1 (Kosovo UN Resolution 1244, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina) with a special emphasis on enabling the access to a quality teaching process for students who, for objective reasons, can not attend regular teaching activities at HEIs. The project goal is using of modern ICT technology and pedagogical approaches to promote equity to the students with: a) disability, b) economic obstacles: people with a low standard of living, low income, dependence on social welfare system and c) geographical obstacles: people from remote or rural areas; people living in small islands or in peripheral regions;Expected results of this project are:- implementation of modern distance learning platforms,- creation of e-content for multimedia platforms,- equipping the remote and central office classrooms with modern ICT technology for teaching (smartclassroom),- developing new pedagogical approaches that define the use of ICT in education, - training of teaching and technical staff.The project will impact on the improvement of equity in the teaching process at HEIs in Region 1.
To improve the teaching process at the HEIs in the WB Region with a special emphasis on enabling the access to a quality teaching process for students who cannot attend regular teaching activities at universities’ campuses. The project goal is using of modern ICT technology and pedagogical approaches to promote equity to the students with: a) disability, b) economic obstacles: people with a low standard of living, and c) geographical obstacles: people from remote or rural areas.
The non-EU partners of the SMARTEL project have classrooms in remote areas far away from the universities’ campuses. Sometimes, a lot of effort needs to be invested to ensure arrival of teachers and teaching assistants to these remote locations and provide regular teaching. Also, some students have some disabilities or work hard in order to support their families, and are not able to attend the lessons at universities’ campuses.
<< Background >> The non-EU partners of the SMARTEL project have classrooms in remote areas far away from the universities’ campuses. Sometimes, a lot of effort needs to be invested to ensure arrival of teachers and teaching assistants to these remote locations and provide regular teaching. Also, some students have some disabilities or work hard in order to support their families, and are not able to attend the lessons at universities’ campuses. << Objectives >> To improve the teaching process at the HEIs in the WB Region with a special emphasis on enabling the access to a quality teaching process for students who cannot attend regular teaching activities at universities’ campuses. The project goal is using of modern ICT technology and pedagogical approaches to promote equity to the students with: a) disability, b) economic obstacles: people with a low standard of living, and c) geographical obstacles: people from remote or rural areas. << Implementation >> EU project’s HEIs helped WB project’s HEIs to: a) develop new pedagogical approaches for implementation of hybrid teaching process (face-to-face for students in university campus and on-line for students attending the lessons remotely), b) build ICT models for and install multimedia classrooms and Distance Learning platforms, c) train local staff to maintain multimedia classrooms and Distance Learning platforms and create e-contents, d) evaluate impact of introduced changes. << Results >> WB HEIs changed the teaching and assessment approach in syllabi of selected courses in line with developed pedagogical approaches that were approved by universities’ councils, installed and launched multimedia classrooms and Distance Learning platforms, developed and uploaded e-content for distance learning platforms and started to use multimedia classrooms and Distance Learning platforms in standard teaching process successfully.