Micro-credentials. Macro-Rewards. Competency-based recognition for professional learning

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Education leaders, practitioners and technologists are being challenged to respond to demands for new forms of credentialing, such as various forms of micro-credentials, digital badges, nano-degrees, and to define how these fit with existing credentialing frameworks and an emerging digital credentialing ecosystem (Chakroun & Keevy, 2018). At the European level, the drive to digitise credentials has been prioritised by the Bologna Digital Agenda and the EU’s Digital Education Action Plan.

The Navigator – LO

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It aims to raise the awareness of higher education students in humanities about the risks related to the quality of information sources.

By following the CRAAP (Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose) test model embedded in the game, players will explore the learning outcomes related to Information Literacy:

  1. Plan – Find Relevant Information
  2. Identify and Scope – Search Information
  3. Manage and Communicate Information
  4. Digital Competence Regarding Fake Content
  5. Identify, evaluate and avoid fake information

Digital storytelling for training

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Using the available resources in the Topic you should understand what is the “Digital Storytelling “, which are the ” Elements ” and “Types of Narratives ” and the aspects to be taken into consideration in the construction of DST, to raise attention of our audience.

Information Trap Manager – LO

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Players will have, by playing, to explore the learning outcomes and to face series of challenges related to Information Literacy:

  1. Plan – Find Relevant Information
  2. Identify and Scope – Search Information
  3. Manage and Communicate Information
  4. Digital Competence Regarding Fake Content
  5. Identify, evaluate and avoid fake information

The mobility guide on-line – Planning and management with ICT support

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This course will serve as a good basis to develop a brief, but complete plan that can be used s for:

  • collecting a partnership to form a consortium around your plan,
  • writing the specific applications. which will require some level of adaptation of your texts and figures when filling in the given forms (off-line or on-line);
  • decide the form of mobility (virtual or traditional);
  • list and select the most appropriate ICT tools for you to facilitate work in different mobility tasks from dissemination through project management till extension of the learning activity.

Time management and online communities (English)

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In these demanding and dynamic times we are living, where we do so many activities with multiple tools and media, we realize that our life and work are less productive. It’s the same story wherever you go these days, we feel overwhelmed with things to do and we have too many matters to handle. It doesn’t matter what your job is: managers, salespeople, administrators,…everyone has the same common bond: they’re not able to get everything done…
What is that lack of productivity and poor personal management due to? Our work? The environment around us? The technology we use? Our bad habits? Our bad habits? We all have the same amount of time: 24 hours per day. The real issue is how we organize our time.” This is what differentiates people who achieve excellent results and those that achieve average results in their performance. Throughout this course we are going to identify the problem, what should be changed, and how to do so. The problem will be identified, you will be motivated and offered a solution.
The idea of this course is to carry out a series of positive habits and in this way, reach a productive equilibrium to be an organized and efficient person. We want to be more efficient in our daily lives and work. It’s not worth much to your day to read the latest innovations and updates if you don’t have time to implement them.
If right now you feel consumed by stress and strangled by your tasks, you have two options: allow that black hole of anxiety, pressure and wasted time drag you down or take action to get ahead.

eLene4Life Dynamic Toolkit – LO

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It is a collection of innovative teaching and training activities and methods to develop soft skills.

To identify the appropriate steps to choose the right training within those suggested, the following guidelines are provided:

  1. Focusing the soft skills curriculum – It’s fundamental to focus it on the target group, to frame the needs and requirements of student’s later professional life.
  2. Learning at the workplace – Simulating or adopting practices that are as similar as possible to the real situations in the daily work practices is extremely useful to improve the students’ soft skills.
  3. Creating teamwork situations – If in large groups, split them into smaller ones in order to create a team that can work in parallel.
  4. Adopting problem-based learning / Learning by Doing – It could be the most useful approach, based on real issues where outcomes could have value for learners.
  5. Making Learners Drive Learning – Explain the benefits of active and experiential learning and involve them in the design of the active learning practices.
  6. Choosing the right methodology according to the context – In order to develop some skills and behavior during studies, it would be necessary to require certain behaviors during them (e.g. in the last two years), showing which methods or particular approaches would work best.
  7. Using Digital Resources – Quick (and often free/open source) apps or softwares are useful to support virtual workgroups training, testing, gaming and more.
  8. Debriefing and providing feedback after any active experience – This is something that is often lacking in the HE context, where the focus is on assessments of knowledge.
  9. Share expectations and allocate time – It is important to dedicate time to explain effectively to students the active learning activities the course foresees, teachers’ expectations, course learning outcomes, and the evaluation criteria students will be faced with.
  10. Re-shaping the role of teachers and moving it to a more mentor/coach style – This can be considered the constant agreement from nearly all the interviewees. Teachers have to become facilitators of knowledge and learning. This is a need of society. Improving their digital skills is also a priority.

eLene4work orientation guide – LO

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The eLene4work orientation guide will help learners to:

  • discover the most important soft skills and digital soft skills wanted by employers,
  • browse the most inspiring MOOCs selected by the project partners,
  • learn what it’s like to study online and how to get the most out of the experience. Students/young workers/unemployed can use this Orientation Guide independently or as part of the overall eL4w process.

Moreover:

  • If they already know which (digital) soft skills they want to develop or highlight, then they can jump straight in and follow the next steps.
  • The section on studying online vs face-face will give an insight into what it’s like to study online and some useful tips from other students to help them get organised.
  • Browse by MOOC or skill enables them to select the MOOC(s) they want to follow, access a short summary via an ID card, and link straight to the MOOC on the platform.

Zoom-Complete training in Breakout Rooms

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A complete video tutorial on everything you need to know about breakout rooms. This covers all the key aspects of setting up breakout rooms in Zoom. Zoom has suddenly become very popular way of delivering online teaching but many teachers are very confused with the way the breakout rooms work in Zoom. This complete training will take you through all the key elements of setting up and using breakout rooms. This video also includes actual REAL examples of me working with breakout rooms to make it really clear.

Build a Flipped Classroom Course in Moodle-Step by step pt1

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Part 1 shows you how to build a course in Moodle in a Flipped Classroom mode. This step by step course shows you different ways to add video to your course and then to add activities to compliment and support the videos. You will look at real examples and I will show you a range of tricks to make the design more interesting too. I will also show you how to build a discussion board. The discussion board can be linked to the video, so that once the students have watched the video, they can engage in the discussion. You will learn 1) To design a solid course in Moodle 2) Add YouTube video and resize it 3) Add banners and think about the layout 4) Add a forum 5) Create the first question for the forum 6) See real Moodle examples A really solid course that will give you a clear and solid start in working with Moodle.