Abstract
The paper aims describing a collaborative international initiative of four European universities to develop a training program for supporting university staff in creating and using multimedia resources effectively. Thus, teaching, researcher and administrative staff from higher education institutions will develop their digital skills to create more realistic and attractive content that should improve university prestige through a better communication process with the stakeholders. We relate the presented approach to MUST project (Multimedia Competencies for University Staff to Empower University - Community Collaborations, 2020-1-RO01-KA203-080399), that aims develop and implement a new multimedia curriculum and training program. The training curriculum and the created educational resources make up a dedicated service offered by universities through DigiCoaches who will provide training to other internal/external users/trainees in creating-using multimedia technologies effectively.
Highlights
COVID-19 pandemic has paralyzed the education process, the education institutions all over the Globe
MUST project (Multimedia Competencies for University Staff to Empower University Community Collaborations) addresses to “Innovative practices in a digital era”, because it proposes to develop and implement an innovative blended curriculum and training program dedicated to university staff to support their multimedia skills development; these refer to the design and use of digital technologies in creative, collaborative, efficient ways to better facilitate teaching-training-learningassessment process of Generation Z students or for user in universities’ community
Preliminary study has been developed with the support of MUST project consortium for creating a taxonomy of digital competences to be addressed by the future training program
Summary
COVID-19 pandemic has paralyzed the education process, the education institutions all over the Globe. The data shows a gap of using multimedia resources in engineering, information sciences, nursing and health care services, physics and other fields, situation that was not expected and that needs special attention in terms of intensive trainings programs for teaching and research staff (mainly affected by this gap) [4]. The echoes of this knowledge gap have been identified in employees’ engagement and their capacity of knowledge sharing for supporting organizational performance during the pandemic crisis [5]. MUST training curriculum and the created educational resources will be exploited as a dedicated service offered by universities through DigiCoaches (trainers of trainers) who will provide training to other internal/external users/trainees in using multimedia technologies effectively
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