Presentation "Students Co-creators of Digital Education" by Dr. Diana Andone, Politehnica University of Timisoara, done at "ALTA’21 - Advanced Learning Technologies and Applications. From Distance to Hybrid Learning” on December 1st 2021 Lithuania, online Conference Conference organized by Informatics Faculty at Kaunas University of Technology and National Association of Distance Education Lithuania.

1. Students Co-creators of Digital Education
Dr. Diana Andone
Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Diana.andone@upt.ro
@diando70

2. Happy Birthday Romania!
1 December 1918

3. Politehnica University of Timisoara,
Romania

4. Elearning.upt.ro

5. Education Digital Strategy – UPT (pandemic -
post pandemic)
Respond Act and recover Renew/ re-structure
digital education -
learning continuity
optimization transformation
Environment
Students / professors /
digital systems
Institutional change -
scenarios, micro-credits,
quality control, new
structures, adapted
curricula/academic staff

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

8. 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 updgraded
Since 2015 - Mobile app CVUPT
Closed platform only for UPT students and professors

10. UniCampus
www.unicampus.ro

11. 1. The Internet,
World Wide Web
and introduction to
the digital world
2. Digital Content &
Publishing
(including wikis)
3. Data Protection
and Open Licenses
4. Digital Curation -
Digital Libraries and
Museums
5. Digital Safety,
Security and Ethics
6. Digital
Storytelling
7. Digital Audiences,
Digital Analytics
(Google, Facebook,
Twitter, SEO)
8. Social Media for
Culture
9. Augmented and
Virtual Reality
10. Mobile Apps
and Mobile User
Experience
11. Digital
Management in
Culture
12. Digital
Communication &
Presentations
13. Online and
Mobile Digital
Media Tools (audio-
video)
DigiCulture Courses
– online/ blended learning, free courses
Basic Level Training
https://digiculture.eu/www.unicampus.ro

12. DigiCulture Courses
https://digiculture.eu/

13. DigiCulture OPEN BADGES
www.digiculture.eu
https://digiculture.eu/

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

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

16. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
License
@ABCtoVLE
https://abc-ld.org/abc-to-vle/
Practice
Acquisition
Collaboration
Discussion
Investigation
Production
M
O
O
C
assignment
Virtual patients
Virtual labs
models
Open textbooks
eportfolios
Audio books
SCORM
SCORM
SCORM
podcasts
infographics
ABCtoVLE Erasmus+ project - UPT
ABCtoVLE Tools
H5P interactive Diagram
Webpage with tools tutorials
Video
Digitisation: Content, Skills

17. Using OERs
Interactive
(H5P, Quiz in Moodle)
~ 20.000 new resources

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

19. Todaystudentswilllearnindependentanddigitalalltheirlife
OPEN life long learning STUDENT
21stcenturyskills/
futureskills
Aretheyreadyto identify,access,learn,analyse,apply,practicenewknowledgeacrossdifferentmedia,
information,communication,toolsastoenhancetheirskillsanddeveloptheircareers?

20. Virtual
Mobilities
HowtodevelopOpenlife-longlearningstudents
forthe21st centurysociety?
MOOC
Virtual
Campus
OER
Co-
creators
Micro-
credentials
Since 2015

21. TraCCE
AugWearEdu
EBSI4RO

22. A MOOC-based
Innovative Instructional
Approach for
Curriculum Design

23. MODE-IT Project partners

24. MODE-IT Intellectual Outputs
www.mode-it.eu
Online
Self-Assessment
Tool
Online Training
for MOOC Design &
Implementation
Redesigned MOOCs-
based HEI curricula
& MOOCs
Designers’
Training
1 2
3

25. 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.
www.mode-it.eu

26. MODE-IT develop innovative courses
MOOCs-based instructional approaches for curriculum design
HEI teachers need to master new skills therefore becoming MOOC designers and
deliverers.
20 professors & courses to be adapted and changed in Universities
www.mode-it.eu

27. UPT Digital Education Digitalisation
Co-creators - Assignments
disposable assignments: literally throwing away 2 million
hours of work each semester
renewable assignments: projects, artifacts, lab, companies,
OER / to be adapted each year
D. Wiley, “What is open pedagogy,” Iterating toward openness, vol. 21, p. 2013, 2013

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

29. 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)
Digitalisation: Co-creators
– Assignments - OERs

30. Digitalisation: Co-creators –
Assignments - OERs
Students
• new tools, concepts
• Analyses, synthesis, creation,
presentation, publish, re-use -
Creative Commons License
Course integration

31. UPT Digital Education Digitalisation
Students Co-creators - Assignments
Publication
Recognition Scholar articles
Blog
Public presentations
Newsletter, Social media

32. UPT Digital Education Digitalisation
Co-creators - Assignments
Publication in OER Commons

33. UPT Digital Education Digitalisation
Co-creators - Assignments

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

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

36. UPT Digital Education Digitalisation
Co-creators - Assignments
2019
0
5
10
15
20
It was difficult to create
Creating the OER was fun
This will be useful for me
in the future
My work will be useful for
future students
This activity encuraged
peer collaboration
This activity helped me
learn new things
Creating an OER
Stronlgy disagree Disagree
2018

37. UPT Digital Education Digitalisation
Co-creators - Assignments
OER & MOOC Co-
Creation
New digital tools
New concepts, skills
Analyze, synthetize,
create, present
Publish CC
Integrate in
courses/education
Recognition -
Validation

38. Our Project Website:
talktechproject.net

39. TalkTech:
A Global Exploration of Technology and Culture
• UP Timisoara
and Bentley
University
• AR & VR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zPIJNJrbP4
https://talktechproject.net/

40. Liberty Square,
Timisoara
AR (cospaces)
VR (Aurasma)
40
TalkTech:
A Global Exploration of
Technology and Culture
https://talktechproject.net/

41. TalkTech:
A Global Exploration of
Technology and Culture
https://talktechproject.net/

42. Digital Transformation
Academic Culture changes
Learning transformation
Community collaboration & Knowledge exchange

44. Digital Transformation

45. Microcredits – open badge

46. Microcredits – open badge

47. https://elearning.upt.ro/en/comunitate/digital-skills-for-education-culture-
workshopworkshop-competente-digitale-pentru-educatie-si-cultura/
Digital Skills for Education & Culture Workshop, December 3, 2021, online in RO & EN

48. OpenEdTech
Guiding principles for Open EdTech:
1. Education is a basic human right and Open EdTech can best enable equitable access to quality
education for everyone on Earth.
2. We strongly support open standards and interoperability.
3. Control of education technology should be collectively shared.
4. We want to empower educators and learners to improve our world.
5. Education should drive technology, not the reverse.
6. We encourage strategic alliances and networks for those around Open EdTech.
7. Open EdTech should be the most well-designed, competitive and sustainable technology available.
8. We embrace the best of open source practices.
9. We want to build on what already exists, including standards and tools.
10. Openness in EdTech should include transparency about sustainability models.
11. We work closely with our diverse communities to define our goals and roadmaps.
12. We understand and respect diversity when creating and recommending Open EdTech tools and
resources.
This document: bit.ly/2XBTMty
Open Educational Technologies
https://openedtech.global/

49. http://www.eden-online.org/
https://eden-europe.eu/

50. EDEN Initiative: Education in time of pandemic
Ø Started on March 30, 2020
Ø Practical webinars on how to
take face-to-face education
online
Ø Focus on the day-to-day
challenges educators face
Ø 11 webinars
Ø 35 speakers and moderators
Ø Over 3500 participants
Ø From over 120 countries
worldwide
Ø More than 9100 views of
recordings
webinars #onlinetogether
Recordings available at: http://www.eden-online.org/

51. EDEN Initiative: Education in time of new normal
Ø Started on September 14th,
2020
Ø 6 webinars
Ø 26 speakers and moderators
Ø Over 800 participants
Ø 1261 views of recordings
Ø Presentation the Digital
Education Action Plan by
European Commission
Ope Classroom Conference, 6-8 November 2020
webinars #onlinetogether
Recordings available at: http://www.eden-online.org/

52. Open Education Week 2020
52
Ø 6 webinars
Ø 32 facilitators
Ø 1080 registered participants
Ø from 50 countries attracted
Open Education Week 2021
Ø 6 webinars
Ø 37 facilitators
Ø 3281 registered participants
Ø from 79 countries attracted
European Online and Distance Learning week 2021
Recordings available at: http://www.eden-online.org/

53. IEEE Education
IEEE Learning Network
https://iln.ieee.org/
IEEE Digital Library
IEEE Xplore
ieeexplore.ieee.org
IEEE eLearning Library - courses
https://innovate.ieee.org/
IEEE TryEngineering
https://tryengineering.org/
IEEE Education Society
https://ieee-edusociety.org/

54. The IEEE Teaching Excellence Hub is a site designed to help those teaching in
IEEE fields of interest at the university level globally to continually develop
and improve their teaching skills.
http://teaching.ieee.org

55. Spotlight Heritage Timisoara
Patrimoniu sub reflectoare Timișoara

56. Spotlight Heritage
Timisoara
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
a digital story
a website
a mobile application with augmented reality,
A museography exhibition at the headquarters of the National
Museum of Banat
A street exhibition in public places in the neighbourhoods
Young people`s active engagement in reclaiming their cultural
heritage
www.spotlight-timisoara.eu

57. 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
Elearning.upt.ro
cv.upt.ro
Unicampus.ro