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Motivating New
Technologies for Adult Education
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Partners
Plunges suaugusiuju svietimo centras
LT-Lithuania
E.U.C. Research Centre Ltd CY-Cyprus
CENTRUM EDUKACJI NAUCZYCIELI W
KOSZALINIE PL-Poland
Institut E-seniors FR-France
Dost Eli Konya Gida Bankas Yardimmlasma ve Dayanisma Dernegi TR-Turkey
Ostra Grevie folkhogskola SE-Sweden
D1 Summary
The purpose
of this project is to encourage and guide adult learners in various parts of
Europe to creative learning and activities using new information technology
tools. The project also enhances creative language teaching pedagogy,
especially in peripheral areas. The project brings together adults of different
age and background and ICT experts in e-learning. The main goal of the project
is to empower motivation of continuous learning and creativeness of the adults.
The
objective of the project is to create possibilities for adults’ personal
development in computer literacy and foreign languages using creative education
methods, e-learning methods so that participants could adopt knowledge gained
in practice within their local communities or at work.
All
partners will organize a target group of adult learners who will take part in
international workshops and disseminate the knowledge gained at the local level
establishing their own learning circles. The ICT experts in e-learning will
develop the content of the international workshops and carry them out during
the project lifetime. In addition the project will focus on civic and cultural
competencies of adult learners through cultural activities and the English
language teaching which easily joins different cultures and enables rich
culture exchange.
The
partnership will create a European wide forum for the project and a sustainable
platform for future development of creative education. All created materials
will be presented in all partner countries via project website in English and
their native languages. Working together increases international understanding
and social inclusion. Dissemination events at local
level will permanently promote local knowledge of creative education in all
partner communities.
D3 Project objectives and strategy
To improve
the accessibility to lifelong learning for adults by presenting the status of
adult learners in partnership countries, difficulties they encounter and by
presenting joint solutions.
To provide people 45+ especially
from the rural areas with tools to
improve their knowledge and competence in IT and foreign languages in order to
avoid their social exclusion.
To facilitate the cooperation between partners’ organizations.
To strengthen understanding of European cultures and languages and
mutual respect.
To improve
the quality of adult education by implementing blended learning approach in
delivering workshops on Web2.0 tools and new generation of ICT tools which will
let teachers to get experience and adopt this approach in their teaching
practice.
To develop communication skills and general cultural competencies of
adult learners and teachers.
To support the creativity of the learners and teachers to be active
open-minded European citizens.
We will
start from the state of existing practices and needs in partner countries, from
the applicant’s experience and from the consortium skills. Common and shared
study will identify local needs and training workshops will be developed
and delivered in partner countries responding these findings. Appropriate
methods and the adults needs will be taken into
account while developing these workshops.
We know that we “ learn by doing“ and“learn
while doing“ so all participants will be actively involved in all the stages of
this process. Training and assessment of learning outcomes will be piloted on
at least 20 adults per country, project objectives, performance and
outcomes will be promoted and disseminated in partner countries through various
media tools.
Besides the content of the workshops will be facilitated with the
possibility for adult learners and teachers to exchange their experiences and
practices. This
will contribute to increase the awareness of the varied European social and
economic scene and participants will get better understanding of the areas of
common interest. Knowledge about other cultures, democratic values, citizenship
contribute to individual‘s capacity to listen to what people from other
background can bring us. The partnership involving countries from different
European regions will
provide participants with valuable opportunity to understand the corresponding
cultures and the richness of EU cultural diversity.
D4 results and outcome
Meetings
KO in Nicosia
Meeting in Paris
Meeting in Poland
Evaluation of Koszalin meeting
Meeting in Malmo
Meeting in Konyah
Meeting in Lithuania
F Project implementation
F1 Distribution of tasks
We are aware
that the success of the project relies on the participants, their commitment
and their ability to cooperate. All partners have to contribute not just
because of sharing responsibility but also for the feeling of each participant
that he/she is valid member of the project team. All partners have common
responsibilities during the project: participate in the international meetings,
contribute to the final products, tools and published materials,implement
activities and tasks given in due time, translate final products in their
national languages and disseminate in local and national level, prepare and
present a paper on a relevant topic in the final conference.
Each
partner will have its specific tasks agreed during the project implementation
period:
Plunges SSC
as coordinating institution will be in charge of project implementation, management, communication
among partners, coordination the project meetings, hosting the final management
meeting and international conference, monitoring the mid-term and final project
reporting, on-line workshop "Blended learning. Breaking
the boundaries of the classroom."
E.U.C.
Research Centre Ltd from Cyprus will conduct workshops "Free Software
applications“, „Game-based Learning" and „Learning Content Managing
Systems and Web 2.0 Tools", host a kick-off
meeting.
University
of Naples will conduct a workshop " Innovative learning approach: Using
Social Network and
Mobile Applications as Tool for Adult learning", host one
partner meeting.
NGO from
Turkey will launch a project website and a discussion board, constantly update
web page and run it for the project lifetime and after it.
Partner from Poland will host a meeting, conduct a workshop "Creating ICT Based Lesson
Using Wiki".
NGO from
Bulgaria will be responsible for the minutes of the project meetings,
evaluation of project activities and host one partner meeting.
E-Seniors
will host a partner meeting and monitor the development of "Tutorials for
the use of the ICT tools presented at the workshops in English and in all
partner languages and publish on the project website and CD.
CEDRU will
coordinate project's dissemination process and monitor the development of
"Manual of good practices of using ICT in education process and publish on
the project website and in CD".
Partner
from Sweden will host one partner meeting and will be responsible for the
project promotion materials and final products design and prepare them for the
publishing.
F2 Cooperation and communication
The
cooperation between the partners will be based on a regular and prompt exchange
of information. The English language will be both the working and the
communication tool. The Internet, together with its available communicators
will be the main communication tool. A partnership forum will be opened for
review, discussion and exchange of materials. More traditional forms of
communication will not be excluded (mail, telephone, fax).
The
partners ascribed to certain project tasks will be responsible for regular
communication with the coordinator and other partners. Working to a deadline
will also entail meeting the deadlines set by the project. The project
partners’ cooperation is described in detail in the work plan. Each partner
obtains a role according to the potential and priorities in the project and jointly
contributes to project success.
Each
partner will be able to present the own point of view on the issue at the
working meetings. Each partner will be able to comment on the project
activities and products in order to improve the quality of the project. The
voice of partners will be taken into account so that the outputs reflect the
views of all participants.
Project
management meetings will be documented and will be available for use in the
partnership.
F3 Participants involvement
The
learners will be actively involved in every step of the project:
-identifying
learners‘ needs and planning project activities
considering the results. The planning of the Partnership is prepared in close
consultation with the learners in the various countries. There is no experience
in this new group of cooperation, so the interests of the learners should be
identified, to make it possible so that later provided information and
classifications perfect fit for this group.
-participating
in international and local workshops. Learners will participate in the project
meetings (exchange of training activities in partner countries), as well as in
the workshops, which will end with a certificate.
-
exchanging cultural and professional experiences via the media and international
meetings,
-giving
feedback and evaluating the activities carried out during the project lifetime,
-applying new
knowledge at work or in private life and sharing experiences with other
partners.
F4 Participation into ongoing activities
The activities
and the work plan will be integrated immediately in the annual program of all
participating institutions which supposes a specific analysis on its
suitability, the way to design appropriate activities and the way these
activities can be effective.
The basic
work on the project will be done by the project partners at the local level
involving target group learners in the workshops. Working group will be formed
at each participating institution which will carry out the project activities
according to the objectives of the project. The group will have its own
two-year curriculum responding to the project objectives and outcomes. This
curriculum of each partner country will have its special features responding to
the needs identified at the local level.
Plunges
suaugusiuju svietimo centras, University of Naples "L'Orientale"-
Lifelong Learning Centre, E.U.C. Research Centre Ltd from Cyprus, Centrum
Edukacji Nauczycieli w Koszaline will involve teachers from local schools who
need to acquire ITC skills for their job.
NGO from
Bulgaria and Turkey, Ostra Grevie folkhogskola from Sweden will involve adults
from disadvantaged groups(unemployed, from regional
minorities), CEDRU from Romania and E-Seniors from France will involve elderly
people that is to say people who wish to stay active and get insight on
European activities that may provide them ideas and motivations to mobilize
themselves for self-employment and self-promotion.
F5 Evaluation
The stages
of evaluation will be:
Initial evaluation(based on the concept of self-evaluation) to
review the whole project with the activities and their consonance with the
objectives that must be reached. It will be important to evaluate activities
objectively to see if they are realistic and profitable.
Continuous and formative evaluation. Permanent activity which
main goal is to correct mistakes and to find alternatives, so that the group
work can improve along its own development. A simple questionnaire
approach will be used at the beginning and end of each trans-national meeting
to establish if needs and intentions of the meetings are being achieved.
Results of the different project activities (local and international) will be
assembled, discussed and evaluated. Necessary amendments will be made. Quality
evaluation, decisions, amendments or changes will be discussed together and
common agreements will be reached in open discussion. In the course of working
visits ongoing evaluation in the form of interviews will be conducted. It consists of
collecting comments from participants about the performance of objectives, the
effectiveness of cooperation and communication. After the training, which will
take place in partner countries, the evaluation will be conducted according to
the standardized questionnaires or surveys.
Evaluation
of local activities will be carried by institutions' project coordinators who
will organize regular evaluation sessions which will include discussion, progress reports and
agreeing on modifications and also multiple intelligences forms of evaluation such
as sand evaluation, questionnaires, visual arts, posters and interpersonal
evaluation. The goal, learners knowledge, further education and training
situation to teach in the partner countries will be pursued throughout the
project period and the beginning of each transnational meeting (project
meetings) will start with an evaluation of the previous activity overview.
Final
evaluation will determine if the objectives of the project have been reached.
We have to pay attention to partnership final products, partners
participation grade in all kind of tasks and project results achieved. The
extensive project final evaluation will be done using online tools.
F6 Dissemination and use of results
A
comprehensive valorization strategy will be agreed at the first partner meeting
with a written strategy document to be addressed and updated during partner
meetings.
Dissemination
will start at a local level and then widen, through the website and the
partnership. All partners will ensure that the work is made public within their
local ‘communities of interest’ (eg. other educational institutions, local
networks & authorities & local media).
The project
will develop materials that display the students’ learning and these will be
disseminated as the project progresses and at the project conclusion.
During the
progress of the project the partner meetings will be used in each locality to
disseminate the work being performed.
In addition
the project results and accompanying evaluation will also be disseminated
within and beyond the project, through social networks, websites, workshops,
seminars, local media.
Institutions:
The current
results will be continuously presented during the partners' staff meetings and are
always accessible through the electronic networks. The results are not only
accessible to directly involved adult learners , but
also to all other people and the bodies of the institution.
Local
environment:
All
partners are locally net-worked in various forms, whether more on education
activities, the corporate network or group of regional development. Through its
participation in this project they will include local network for sharing the
results, in
contact with international participants of the project. Above all, the local
environment is to point out the economic opportunities.
Lifelong
learning environment:
The project
results are accessible at all times on the website ,
even over all other documentation for the project (flyers, reports,
newsletters, press releases). All partners will answer questions about the
project and provide guidance on when a device wants to start something similar.
This is true during the project and also for the aftermath.
G 2 Work programme
