Completed Projects
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Duration
04/2021–09/2021
Principal/Sponsor
Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany, Research funding „Digital Higher Education“
Description
The project aims at identifying possibilities of cross-institutional and Länder-spanning digital higher education. Accompanied by an advisory board and based on national and international Desk research and Focus groups, we will develop several proposals for such structures.
Team
- Project management: Prof. Dr. Eva Cendon
- Project employee: Dorothée Schulte, Anita Mörth, Elise Glaß
Findings/Publications
Cendon, Eva; Schulte, Dorothée, Glaß, Elise; Mörth, Anita & Beckmann, Viola (2021): GDOU - German Digital Open University. Proposed forms of collaboration for digital higher education in Germany. Research report. Hagen. Retrieved from: https://ub-deposit.fernuni-hagen.de/receive/mir_mods_00001748
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Duration
01.01.2019 – 31.12.2020, extended till May 2021
Digitally Competent Educators – ongoing course consisting of 3 modules: module 1, module 2, module 3. Starting times in spring and autumn.
Principal/Sponsor
EADTU/Erasmus +
Abstract
The E-SLP Digitally Competent Educators aims to develop and foster educator’s digital pedagogic competence in teaching and learning in all levels of education. The European Short Learning Programme (E-SLP) is a project about Short Learning Programmes (SLPs) on a European level for continuous professional development and lifelong learning, which consist of courses with a common subject focussing on specific needs in society. The E-SLP can be completed with a certificate and also be part of larger degrees. This project is about developing, piloting and evaluating an E-SLP in cooperation with the Open University of Jyväskylä (Finland) (lead), Universidade Aberta (Portugal) und Anadolu Universitesi (Turkey). The central framework for this E-SLP constitutes the Digital Competence Framework for Educators (DigCompEdu), published by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission.
Digitally Competent Educators comprises three 5 ECTS modules at different competence levels with a duration of eight weeks each:
1. Introduction to digital competences for educators
Using digital technologies for communication, collaboration and professional development, to enhance inclusion, personalization and learners active engagement.
Proficiency level: From Newcomer to Explorer.
2. Teaching and learning with digital resources
Managing and orchestrating the use of digital technologies in teaching and learning including sourcing, creating and sharing digital resources.
Proficiency level: From Explorer to Integrator.
3. Facilitating and assessing learners’ digital competencies
Using digital technologies and strategies to enhance assessment by enabling learners creatively and responsibly to use of digital technologies for information, communication, content creation, well-being and problem solving.
Proficiency level: From Integrator to Expert.
The international pilot starts in January 2020 and the E-SLP is will be embedded as an international elective module in the master e-Education by winter term 2020.
Stakeholders
FernUniversität in Hagen
Project management: Prof. Dr. Eva Cendon
Project employee: Magda Zarebski, Research Associate
International Coordinator: Dr. Ingrid Thaler
Open University of Jyväskylä
Overall management: Dr. Virpi Uotinen
Project employee: Dr. Leena Hiltunen
International Coordinator: Päivi Kananen
Anadolu Universitesi
Project management: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Firat
Project employee: Aysun Günes, Lecturer
Universidade Aberta
Project management: Prof. Dr. Glória Bastos
Project employee: Prof. Dr. Lúcia Amante
Project employee: Prof. Dr. Isolina Oliveira
Further information
e-SLP: https://e-slp.eadtu.eu/
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/digcompedu
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/sites/jrcsh/files/digcompedu_leaflet_en-2017-10-09.pdf
Findings/Publications
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Bastos, Gloria; Cendon, Eva; Firat, Mehmet; Juutinen, Sanna; Kananen, Päivi; Uotinen, Virpi & Zarebski, Magda (2021): Lessons learned from Creation of Digitally Competent Educators SLP [to be published]. In George Urbachs (Ed.) The Envisioning Report for Empowering Universities. Maastricht, NL: EADTU.
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Cendon, Eva & Zarebski, Magda (17.-18.06.2021). Digitally Competent Educators joining international classrooms. A students’ perspective [Paper-Präsentation]. International Academic Mobility in a (Post) COVID-19 World. Spanish and German Perspectives, Online-Conference. https://intmobility-conference.de/programme/
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Hiltunen, Leena; Kananen, Päivi; Uotinen, Virpi; Cendon, Eva; Zarebski, Magda; Bastos, Gloria & Günes, Aysun (2019). Boosting Educators‘ Digital Competences. World Conference on Online Learning (ICDE). Dublin, Ireland. Online available on: https://wcol2019.ie/digital-posters/
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With the “Advancement through Education: Open Universities” competition the Federal Government together with the Länder is funding universities and universities of applied sciences to develop distinct profiles in the field of lifelong academic learning and part-time study programs designed for professionals and others target groups. The competition is accompanied scientifically by a consortium consisting of the FernUniversität in Hagen (overall management), the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, the TU Dortmund University and the Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung (CHE). The research team of the FernUniversität focusses on the interconnection between academic and professional knowledge in study programs developed within the competition and in the context of national and international developments.
Further information: https://de.offene-hochschulen.de/en/open-universities
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Accompanying research of the joint Federal Government-Länder Competition “Advancement through Education: Open Universities” (2011–2015) under the responsibility of the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (overall management), the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Berlin University for Professional Studies
