Abstract
The European Commission favours the implementation and use of digital content and specially Open Educational Resources (OER) made accessible in higher education. Most of the lecturers have neither the skills nor the time to supply the teaching materials as digital content or OER. Therefore, Advanced Use of Learning Technologies in Higher Education (AduLeT) is a project that has been set up within the European Union Erasmus+ programme support, involving seven partners working together from November 2016 to August 2019. This project will provide lecturers with a community to share user experiences that integrate selected teaching methods with technologies and learning objects to solve an educational problem. AduLeT project brings in a Community of Practice (CoP) for lecturers with suitable teaching methods for technology enhanced learning (TEL). One specific requirement is the visualization of a set of category of tools matching with methods, like a matrix of methods and tools that can easily help teachers choosing from them. The lecturer can also find guidelines in the CoP for the effective use of TEL tools according to the methodology he/she plans to use in the learning process.The CoP will also make it possible to get in touch with other lecturers and to share experiences about teaching with TEL tools. In this contribution we will present the main requisites and functionalities implemented to provide the CoP, based on two workshops with the lecturers of the partner countries. We believe that this project could be an excellent support to the teacher, because it will present good practices for the use of appropriate educational technologies, properly conformed with teaching methods applicable to the resolution of problems, difficulties and requisites of common teaching.
Highlights
This project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, running from 01 November 2016 until 31 August 2019, and involves the following educational institutions: PH-Ludwigsburg University of Education (LUE, Alemanha), University of Stuttgart (US, Alemanha), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM, Espanha), Humak University of Applied Sciences (Humak, Finlândia), University Johanes Neumann (PAE, Hungria), Open Universiteit Nederland (OUNL, Holanda), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (IPB, Portugal) and International Education and Training Institution (Pixel, Itália)
Like we summarize in our AduLeT Website (2016), with the AduLeT platform any lecturer can add/consult: Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Teaching Methods, TEL Tools, TEL Problems, and TEL User eXperiences
After a brief presentation of the Adulet project and the partner universities, the participants were asked to test the Community of Practice (CoP) platform by following the different steps contained in the comments to the community of practice form, a handout provided in the beginning of the session
Summary
In the last two decades, the number of lectures interested in promoting changes in pedagogical practices and integrating information and communication technologies in the teaching and learning process has been increasing. The European project AduLeT intends to offer an online platform that supports and fosters a community of practice for teachers of higher education so that they can share information and experiences of use of educational technologies in order to promote their advanced use by more teachers and educators in order to contribute to improving the quality, originality, innovation and variety of digital resources, as well as of the teaching and learning process in the context of higher education. The purpose of this paper is, first, to present the project, the consortium and the main results, and describe the main functionalities of the AduLeT platform, noting the importance of the two "build the community" workshops that allowed, at an earlier phase, to identify and specify requirements, and test and validate the interfaces and functionality of the Community of Practice (CoP) platform
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