Identify
The potential technology holds to transform and improve the education they offer
With the advent of each new technology come predictions of fundamental changes in education. Yet few of these changes have been realized. Digital learning may indeed be the technology that breaks that pattern, but this will only come to pass if educators are empowered to take advantage of the technologies and methodologies available to them.
The EdDiCo project aimed at empowering individual educators to
Identify
The digital competences they would need to acquire to take advantage of those technologies and associated methodologies
Find
The educational resources necessary to acquired those competences
EdDiCo was an Erasmus+ project which ran from September 2019 to December 2022. All results are available for re-use under a Creative Commons BY licence unless otherwise stated.
Activities and outputs
- Define a Competence Meta-model for Digital education competences compiling a full set of relevant competences for digital educators from the various existing e of competence models with the purpose of being used as indexing or classification mechanism for open educational resources;
- Create and validate a Learning Maturity Model as an organisational paradigm for digital education training content as means of structuring the information about the degree of expertise on specific competences for all those teachers and educators who aim at improving their digital competences. This model is available in 5 languages (EN, DE, ES, FI, IT, LT);
- Set up a Directory of 500 Learning Opportunities for Digital teacher education, which passed a quality process to ensure they will serve to attain digital competences described according to the Learning Maturity Model; while the rest of a Learning opportunity descriptions are based on the European Learning Model created by the European Commission
- Design and develop a mechanism to guarantee the Directory will be feed with new Open Educational Resources for the benefit of the EdDiCo learning community.;
- Design, develop and validate a Self-assessment and Recommendation tool to enable educators assessing their current level of digital competence and set her/his competence goals to express the desired level of competence to attain and to make the best use possible of the available resources by recommending appropriate resources from the EdDiCo Directory so the educator can follow those learning opportunities to achieve the desired competence levels.
Expected Impact
Educators are the key stakeholders of this project, but its benefits should be felt by all educational stakeholders, most concretely, students, who will benefit from faster adoption of digital pedagogies for their learning.
Educators will be prepared to face challenges of 21st century education thanks to a set of tools which facilitate their self-assessment of own digital education competences and the usage of the European largest guided self-study repository to foster the development of educational digital competences
15+
external articles will be published about EdDiCo outputs
350+
persons will be introduced to EdDiCo through Multiplier Events
7000+
persons will be reached by partner web pages and newsletters
