Digital Skills & Competences in Timisoara by Diana Andone presentation at the A New Agenda for Competencies in Europe O noua agenda pentru competente in Europa 10 October 2016, Bucuresti

1. Digital Skills &
Competences in
Timisoara
Dr. Diana Andone
Universitatea Politehnica
Timișoara, Romania
http://www.slideshare.net/diando70/
@diando70
O NOUA AGENDA PENTRU
COMPETENTE IN EUROPA
10 OCTOBER 2016, BUCURESTI
#EDENRW9

2. Needs analysis for digital competences
• Not a clear National strategy / approach
• The existing Digital divide: regions, age, level of
education
• Need for structure, training, encouragement for
Entrepreneurship
• A need of High ICT skills
• A need of Communication, multicultural skills
• A need of Teachers/ trainers / HR qualification
• A need of Validation / Accreditation

3. The Digital Economy & Society
Index (DESI)
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/desi 29/06/2016

4. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/p
ublication/eur-scientific-and-
technical-research-
reports/promoting-effective-
digital-age-learning-european-
framework-digitally-
competent-educational
Promoting Effective Digital-Age Learning - JRC Science Report

5. Digital literacies
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-students-digital-literacy

6. Digital Literacy
Social
Networking
Transliteracy
Maintaining
Privacy
Managing
Digital Identity
Creating
Content
Organizing
and Sharing
Reusing /
Repurposing
Filtering and
Selecting
Self-
Broadcasting
(Steve Wheeler http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/ )

7. Computational thinking

8. Creative creators

9. need to control – education, online
activity, communication, eLearning
environment
Digital students
(Andone, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2014)

10. MOOCs – Massive Open
Online Courses
MOOCs
xMOOCs cMOOCs
SPOCs

11. Open Education

12. Today students willlearn independent and
digital alltheir life
OPEN life long learning STUDENT
21st century skills
Are they ready to identify, access, learn, analyse, apply, practice new knowledge
across different media, information, communication, tools as to enhance their
skills and develop their careers?
(Andone, 2015, 2016 EADTU 2016 HOME Report)

13. TalkTech 2008 -2016 Students
707 students involved, no dropout
Boston, Bentley Univ
Intro to Information Technology
45 students per year
Spoke English
Frequently use the web,
computers, and mobile devices
Age 19-22
Timisoara, UPT
Multimedia Technologies
50 students per year
Spoke English
Frequently use the web,
computers, and mobile devices
Age 21-22
Virtual mobilities

14. TalkTech 2008-2016 idea
Work with students from another country to research a technology
topic and present those results using collaborative multimedia tools
Identify and use both synchronous and asynchronous tools to
communicate with international partners
Produce a tangible work product within a designated period of time
(8 weeks)

15. Multicultural
Online – different time zones
Simulate real world work in an IT company
Students freely choose the tools, communication, working time and
hours, result
TalkTech 2008- 2016

16. TalkTech 2008-2016
Students projects 2014
ThingLink

17. TalkTech 2008-2016
Students projects 2015
ThingLink

18. TalkTech 2008 – 2016 - Tools

19. TalkTech 2008-2016
Tools used by students
Task Tools
align time zones timeanddate.com
chat Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Google Hangouts
create and host audio SoundCloud
create and host video Vine, Periscope, YouTube, PowToon
create interactive images ThingLink
edit audio Sound Forge
edit images PhotoShop, Paint.net
edit video Windows Live Movie Maker
email Gmail, Outlook
hold video conferences Google Hangouts, Skype
record video mobile phone camera apps
schedule meetings Doodle
search the web Google, Bing
share photos Flickr, Tumblr
share screens join.me, Google Hangouts

20. TalkTech 2016
Vine
exemplu
Messaging App

21. ERASMUS+ Mobilities UPT
Internaționalizare:mobilități pentru studenți
Alături destudii șipracticăpentru studenți,au luatamploaremobilitățilepentrutineriiabsolvenți,careau
reprezentat30%din mobilitățiledepractică.

22. ERASMUS+ Mobilities UPT Mobilități outbound
pentru studenți, distribuție pefacultăți

23. Studii postuniversitare in Tehnologii si
Sisteme pentru eActivitati, eMedia,
eAfaceri, eSanatate, eGuvernare –
invatamant la distanta

24. Studii postuniversitare de formare in
Blended Learning si Tehnologii
educationale moderne pentru
invatamantul universitar - DidaTec ,
invatamant la distanta

25. DEFY THE TRADITIONAL

26. OER & MOOC
elements, resources in a
course
Use as external resources
Bibliography
Retrieval learning
Live, face to face
discussions
Correct identification of
resources
OER & MOOCs – Blended learning / Flipped
Classroom
MOOC courses credit
recognition
Integrating a full MOOC
course in curricula
National Quality Standard
Assessment and
certification
Credit trasnfer
Integration MOOC&
OER in course
Group, project, lab activity
Full MOOC course
Participation in global
learning communities
Live, face to face
discussions
Assessment and
certification

27. MOOCs integration in UPT
2013 - 2016
5 professors in UPT
11 courses
Live Courses of a MOOC,
at student’s choice, in the
course subject
Commenting courses
resources
Blog and Wiki in CVUPT
fro student created content
cv.upt.ro
Final report
25% of final mark
Students Master in
Tehnologii Multimedia
Master in Media Digitală
33% live MOOCs
93 % completed
87 % previously attended
another MOOC
Online discussion in course
blog, wiki and face-to-face
16 courses (45% edX, 34%
Coursera, FutureLearn,
iVersity, Udacity, et.
Final report
Students experience
(questionnaire)
Advantages: adaptive,
progress bar, learn in
ones rhythm,
interactivity,
accessibility, flexibility,
comfort
Disadvantages: lack of a
gradebook, lack of
communication with
tutors, difficulty, long
videos, evaluation
A new learning experience

28. Developing the Romanian MOOC

29. www.unicampus.ro

30. www.unicampus.ro

31. M-Commerce course
www.unicampus.ro

32. www.unicampus.ro

33. ICT Community

34. 14 Dojo (4 in villages)
800+ children & 300+ volunteers on record
350+ children & 50+ ,mentors weekly

36. HackTM 2014
3 days, 450 participants

37. HackTM 2015, cel mai mare
Hackathon din Sud-Estul Europei
3 days, 500+ participants, 1 day technical workshop

38. HackTM 2016
Educatie Smart City
3 days, 1 day training, 400+ participants

39. HackTM 2016
Educatie Smart City
3 days, 1 day training, 400+ participants

40. Romanian Open Culture
Hackathon 2015, 18-19 April 2015
3 days, training and development, 50+ participants, 7 applications, 2 live and working
#Timisoara2021

41. Interactive Digital Media Student Contest
IDMSC
2014, 2015, 2016
Multimedia
Research
Center

42. Needs analysis RESPONSES
• National strategy / approach
• Bottom-up approach, institutional strategy
• Digital divide: regions, age, level of education
• Online training, Open Education, UniCampus.ro
• Entrepreneurship
• TalkTech, StartUp, HackTM, CoderDojo, IDSMC
• High ICT skills
• TalkTech, StartUp, HackTM, CoderDojo, IDSMC
• Communication, multicultural skills
• TalkTech, HackTM, CoderDojo, IDSMC, UniCampus.ro, ERASMUS
• Teachers/ trainers / HR qualification
• DidaTec, eActivitati, UniCampus.ro
• Validation / Accreditation
• Local validation

43. CONTACT
Dr. DianaAndone
Director
e-Learning Center
Politehnica UniversityTimisoara
Email: diana.andone@upt.ro
Web
Elearning.upt.ro/diana.andone
@diando70
http://www.slideshare.net/diando70/
EDEN Fellow
2011
EDEN Executive
Committee