Continuing Professional
Development of Teachers‘ Digital
Competences: Up2U Project
Approach and Lessons Learned
G. Cibulskis, D. Rutkauskiene, A. Urbaityte
Kaunas University of Technology
ALTA2019, December 12, 2019, Kaunas

Up2U Consortium
18 partners
• Universities
• NRENs
• Infrastructure providers
• Commercials
12 countries
• EU
• Switzerland
• Israel

Up to University
To bridge the gap between schools and HE by integrating
formal and informal learning scenarios and adapting
technologies and methodology that students will be facing in
universities
1. To assess the use of public and private cloud-based infrastructure services
2. To design and develop a scalable and flexible integrated “application toolbox”
3. To build and train the learning community for the specific learning context
4. To test the infrastructure service components and the application toolbox
through very large-scale pilots
5. To define an effective sustainability and exploitation framework
up2university.eu 3

www.up2university.eu 4
Next Generation Digital Learning Environment
From LMS to NGDLE
From a Walled Yard...
...to an Open Garden.

Application Toolbox Up2Universe
www.up2university.eu 6

Challenges for offering services
to Schools
GDPR
Every school wants its own VLE
Different Identity Providers are used (Google Apps for Education,
MS O365, epaslaugos.lm.lt)
Support and the updating of the infrastructure
Scalability of infrastructure to handle big amounts of users
Lack of teachers’ skills in using tools
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Setting up of Up2U infrastructure
Multi-tenant Moodle platform is established and offered to schools
as part of Lithuanian ENREN (LITNET) services
GDPR covered in service agreement between school and LITNET
Integration of tools from Up2University toolbox
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Site with school
registration and
FAQ
vma.lm.lt

Maintenance
dashboard

Large Scale Piloting of the
Platform
~160 schools activated VLE at vma.lm.lt
~100 of them are using VLE with students
~25K registered users
~225K unique visits per year
~4,2 Mln page views in 2019
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Up2U Continuing Professional
Development (CPD) for teachers
CPD aims at DigComEdu competences
Module 1 - Introduction and Orientation
Module 2 - Hands-on implementation and
practice (Teachers who graduated Module 1
will apply learned skills in their own classrooms,
with their students)
Module 3 - Cascade or ‘train-the-trainer’
model to facilitate scaling up
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CPD Module 1 in Lithuania
CPD in Lithuanian language is approved as official 30 hours
qualification development program
Dedicated VLE established at https://mokymai.vma.lm.lt
Face-to-face CPD Module 1 delivered in November-December
2018 with 15 selected teachers
Fully online CPD Module 1 is developed and delivered in 3
iterations this year:
January-February - 166 teachers
March–April - 352 teachers
September-October – 472 teachers
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mokymai.vma.lm.lt
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Online CPD Module 1
Number of resources and activities
inside Moodle course dedicated to
CPD Module 1
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Badges and certificate
1st badge is earned after
self-introduction in the
forum;
2nd – for active
participation and filling in
the survey;
3rd – for completion of all
activities.
Certificate - after
compulsory activities are
completed and own
practice course is created
and peer reviewed
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Results of CPD Module 1
Successful graduates
574 out of 1012
Overall success rate is ~57%
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CPD Module 2
Starts – Today, December 12th
Ends – January 30
More than 250 graduates of Module 1 registered to take part in
Module 2
More detailed presentation in the afternoon session
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Lessons Learned
Success factors of high completion rates:
• right motivation for teachers
• effective organization of the learning process
• good learners support
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