The document discusses a new approach to digital competence building for university educators in Europe, presented during a meeting on October 3, 2017. It highlights the 'eduhack' initiative, which involves teacher-led hackathons to create digitally-supported learning experiences, emphasizing collaboration, active learning, and new digital literacies. The project offers an online course and various activities to enhance digital skills across key areas such as digital resources, pedagogy, assessment, and learner empowerment.

1. Fabio Nascimbeni
UNIR iTED
A NEW APPROACH TO
DIGITAL COMPETENCE BUILDING
FOR UNIVERSITY EDUCATORS IN EUROPE

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The problem we are facing today
Teachers of
yesterday
Learners of
tomottow

3. What digital competences for teachers?
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Ling et al., 2015
Mozilla Foundation
JISC, 2014
JRC, 2017

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How to operationalise this?

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Critical
Digital
Capacity
Building

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EduHack.eu is an initiative supported by Erasmus +
to develop a methodology based on teachers’ EduHackatons,
whereby teaching professionals will learn how to produce
digitally-supported learning experiences.

7. Project Partners

8. The EduHack approach
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► Open: leverage on the open web and on open content
► Collaborative: work with peers and foster students collaboration & co-creation
► Active: do, experiment, create (and reflect)
► New literacies: online identity management, intercultural competence, ethical
and privacy issues

9. Online Course
• Opportunity to interact with an EU level community
• 4 Key areas, depending on your needs/focus
• 19 activities to explore and build your own path
• Compact workload: around 1 hour each to complete
• Preparation for Eduhackathonfor local, face-to-face activities

11. 4 Key Areas

12. Digital Resources
• Search for Open Education Resources (OER)
• Modify existing digital content by using Wikis
• Create digital educational resources
• Curate and organise digital resource
• Apply open licenses to your resources

13. Digital Pedagogy
• Design your own eLearning intervention
• Implement ICT-supported collaborative learning
• Guide and support students through e-moderation
• Foster knowledge co-creation among students
• Create and select video resources for your teaching
• Use games to improve learner engagement

14. Digital Assessment
• Explore digitally supported assessment strategies
• Experiment with different technologies for formative assessment
• Analyse evidence on learning activity, performance and progress
• Use digital technology to provide targeted feedback

15. Empowering Learners
• Critically evaluate online tools
• Discover the cost of “free” commercial social media platforms
• Appreciate opportunities and risks of personalisation in learning
• Check technical accessibility of platforms and resources

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17. EduHackathons
Large/small open/closed online/F2F general/thematic

18. The EduHack overall experience
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ONLINE COURSE
3 LANGUAGES
150 LEARNERS
3 HACKATHONS
100+ ARTEFACTS
ONE COMMUNITY
English
Spanish
Italian
4 areas
20 activities
Coventry
Torino
Madrid
Certified
Collected &
connected

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Online course PlatformEduHackathon
Open from October 2018
2019: Madrid, Torino,
Coventry…..
Documenting progress
The EduHack experience for a university

20. What’s in for me?
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► Help us improve the course
► Take the online course
► Organise a Eduhackathon
► Join the community
www.eduhack.eu