Open principles
and co-creation
for digital
competences for
students
Dr. eng. Diana ANDONE
eLearning Center, Politehnica University
of Timisoara, Romania

Politehnica University of Timisoara,
Romania

Education
Licence
Master
Doctorate
Full time, distance learning,
lifelong learning
Academic

Elearning.upt.ro

European University Alliance
https://www.eudres.eu/

› AUSTRIA
St. Pölten University Of Applied Sciences (Lead)
https://fhstp.ac.at/
› PORTUGAL
Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal
https://www.ips.pt/
› HUNGARY
Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences
https://www.uni-mate.hu/
› BELGIUM
UC Leuven-Limburg UAS
https://www.ucll.be/
› ROMANIA
Politehnica University Timișoara
http://www.upt.ro/
› LATVIA
Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences
› The NETHERLANDS
Saxion University of Applied Sciences
› GERMANY
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
https://www.eudres.eu/
GERMANY
The NETHERLANDS

Common E3UDRES2 Context map of Future University
https://www.eudres.eu/

Digitisation
Core
UPT Virtual Campus (Unique Access point)
UniCampus - MOOCs courses
Training & Support

UPT Virtual Campus (Unique Access point) – Customised, scalable
• Moodle 3.9.2
•476 plugins
•71 developed by UPT
•26 since March 2020
Since 2008 – open-source Moodle, customised and upgraded
Since 2015 - Mobile app CVUPT
Closed platform only for UPT students and professors
https://cv.upt.ro/

Digitalisation
Digital Education Eco-system
Collaboration
Co-creators
Collaboration
Virtual mobilities

Digitalisation:
Students OERs Co-creators -
Assignments

Digitalisation: Students Co-creators - Assignments
disposable assignments: literally throwing away 2 million hours of work
each semester
renewable assignments: projects, artifacts, lab, companies,
Used in engineering education

Digitalisation: Students Co-creators - Assignments
Transforming renewable assignments into OER
Topics selection
Indicated Structure adapted for the
lab/course/subject specific
Final result submitted by student also in editable
format
Special attention to the use of content licensing
(CC)
OER to be adapted periodically

Integrating & Developing OERs & MOOCs
Create resource -
Module
Project – Activity -
Course
Certification
present, oral, report
Peer evaluation
Published OER
Quality
Relevance
Sharing,
licenses
Resources
curated list
Research
Identification Validation
Integration
Assessment

Students
OER
creators
Students will create an OER
based on a specific topic (2
students in a team)
Understand, research,
analyse for a dedicated
topic
Use multimedia creator
tools
Understand Open education
principles, Creative
Commons Licences
Peer evaluation -
Validated by their
colleagues
Publish - CC - inside university,
public, evaluation (grade,
badges, etc)
Students OER Co-creators

Digitalisation: Co-creators – Assignments - OERs
Students learn
new tools, concepts
Analyses, synthesis, creation,
presentation, publish, re-use -
Creative Commons License

Digitalisation - Students OER Co-creators - Assignments
Publication
Course
integration
Recognition
Scholar articles
Blog
Public presentations
Newsletter, Social media

Digitalisation
Students OER Co-creators - Assignments
Publication in OER Commons

UPT Digital Education Digitalisation
Co-creators - Assignments

UPT Digital Education Digitalisation
Co-creators - Assignments
Course integration
Collaboration with other
universities

UPT Digital Education Digitalisation
Co-creators - Assignments
In the UPT Virtual Campus
43 tutorials and Guides
40% partially created by students

Students co-creators in virtual
mobility project based learning

Our Project Website: talktechproject.net
Diana Andone
Mark Frydenberg

TalkTech 2008 – 2022, each autumn
• A Global Exploration of Technology and Culture
• Virtual mobility between Romania and USA
• Improving Digital competences,
communication, time and project management
skills
• Connectivism learning
• Project / challenged based learning
• Publication and student recognition
• Encourage co-creation with students

TalkTech 2008 – 2022, each autumn
• 25+ Bentley Students
• Ages 18-20
• 30+ UPT students
• Ages 21-23
• Most never created AR/VR before
• Most used online storage and collaboration tools
• Spoke English
• Frequently use the web, computers, and mobile devices
• More than 1200 students have participated in TalkTech since we
started in 2008

TalkTech: A Global Exploration of Technology
and Culture
• UP Timisoara and Bentley University
• Students select common industries and
research AR/VR applications in their own
countries to create a VR scene
• Create scenes conveying a use of AR/VR
in that industry in your home country
from a cultural perspective
https://talktechproject.net/
Project Goals
• Produce a tangible deliverable within a short time while
working as a member of a global team
• Develop digital literacy skills with ICTs
• Communicate using both synchronous and asynchronous
tools
• Work and share result jointly
• Increase cultural awareness / impact of globalization
• Critique and review VR scenes from a cultural perspective

VR Health Care Using CoSpaces
• VR Editor
• Co-Blocks Coding for visual
scene development
• Avatars
• Animations
• Dialogue
• https://edu.cospaces.io/HHH-HVJ

Coding with CoSpaces

Blog Posts Summarizing Research
TalkTech 2019: Student Reflections in video

TalkTech 2020 & 2021 Presentation

TalkTech 2020 & 2021 project evaluation
• connectivism of the learning process
• students' Digital competences
• Students attributes
• Computational thinking
• Interviews
• Usage data
• Online questionnaire
Challenges
• New Tools and Technologies
• Time Zones, Spotty Internet Connections
• Teams and Appointments

Motivation
Entrepreneurship
Virtual mobility – learn, work online with limited supervision
Global workspace environment
Multicultural
Digital skills
International Collaboration
Open Education
Creative creators

Creating a
Global
Learning
Community
Extensibility
to other
subjects

TalkTech 2020 Presentation

Developing educators
competences

MODE-IT Project partners
www.mode-it.eu

MODE-IT online training program
composed of 5 learning modules
1. Foundation of online learning;
2. MOOC course design;
3. MOOC content production;
4. MOOC delivery;
5. MOOC in formal learning.
https://iversity.org/en/my/courses/intro
duction-to-mooc-design-and-delivery
www.mode-it.eu

MODE-IT online
training program
www.mode-it.eu
https://open.ktu.edu/.
125 participants Only partner universities
Evaluated

Virtual Mobility vs. Open Education?
Individual initiative
Organisational initiative
Open Virtual Mobility | www.openvirtualmobility.eu | @openVM_erasmus

Course implementation
Open Virtual Mobility | www.openvirtualmobility.eu | @openVM_erasmus
24 courses to get ready for Virtual mobilities
http://www.openvirtualmobility.eu

Open Virtual Mobility Learning HUB – 24 courses in EN
http://www.openvirtualmobility.eu Moodle based

Open Virtual Mobility | www.openvirtualmobility.eu | @openVM_erasmus
Open Credentials to recognise virtual mobility skills
Opening the skill recognition!
http://www.openvirtualmobility.eu

Augmented
teaching through
blended learning
_https://acadigia.eu/_

The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the
contents, which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which
may be made of the information contained therein. (Project Nº. 2020-1-PT01-KA226-HE-095042).
Instituto Politécnico do
Porto
Universidad Politecnica
de Madrid
Università Politecnica
delle Marche
National Technical
University of Athens
INOVA+
Universitatea Politehnica
Timisoara Trinity College Dublin
_https://acadigia.eu/_
ACADIGIA - Consortium

Fostering synergies in 6 countries (Portugal, Spain,
Italy, Greece, Romania and Ireland)
Accelerate the digital readiness of Polytechnic higher
education institutions (new profiles of educators)
Towards the sustainable adoption of more online and
blended approaches in education
ACADIGIA - Objectives
_https://acadigia.eu/_

ACADIGIA - Tools
Skype Cisco Webex
Google Classroom Jupyter Notebook
Zoom Blackboard
Microsoft Teams Digital Whiteboard
Kahoot MS Forums
Moodle Kaltura
_https://acadigia.eu/_

ACADIGIA – Tools analysis
_https://acadigia.eu/_
For each tool:
- a report
- Demo video
- Tutorial based on practical
experience

ACADIGIA – Tools analysis
_https://acadigia.eu/_
For each tool:
- a report
- Demo video
- Tutorial based on practical
experience
- Online
- print

ACADIGIA – DigCompEdu training handbook
and course
_https://acadigia.eu/_
https://unicampus.ro/cursuri/course/view.php?id=194
Part B Structure
Integrating EU Digital
Education Frameworks
Digital education resources
Designing digitally enhanced
learning and teaching
Designing digitally enhanced
evaluation and assessment
Open education resources,
tools, practices

ACADIGIA - course
Contact
Prof. Rosa Arnaldo
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
Sistemas Aeroespaciales, Transporte,
Aéreo y Aeropuertos
_https://acadigia.eu/_

UniCampus
www.unicampus.ro

Change of the
education paradigm
in STEM Education

Spotlight Heritage Timișoara
Patrimoniul sub reflectoare Timișoara
Politehnica University of Timișoara
National Banat Museum
First public events in 2019

Contact
Dr. Diana Andone
Director
e-Learning Center
Politehnica University of
Timisoara
Romania
Email: diana.andone@upt.ro
Elearning.upt.ro/diana.andone
@diando70
EDEN Fellow 2011, Senior Fellow 2021
EDEN Vice-president (2017-2021)
IEEE Romania Education Chair
IEEE Education Board of Governors
IEEE Computer Society, TCLT Open Chair
IEEE Education and Women in Engineering
EUA Digital Transformation Committee
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