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"Effectiveness is now a key word in the socio-economic world. It is also important in school reality, in which it refers primarily to the work of teachers and students.To achieve its objectives SWIM aims to promote innovative, knowledge visualisation approach towards language teaching methods using bespoke Visual Dictionary Online Creator tool in order to improve efficiency of building key language competences to foster competitiveness of adult learners on a labour market. It is important to extend the offer of high-quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual people with low qualifications in the field of adult education. In today’s modern economy, fast evolving needs of language learners require a swift response from the educational sector, teachers can not only use existing educational resources, but also be able to create and share their own personalised dictionary materials for the benefit of learners.The objectives of the project are to:(1) To strengthen key competences of students and provide more effective opportunities to acquire and develop skills essential to remain competitive on the labour market(2) Build the language skills of adults through engagement with bespoke learning resources to support the continuous language and professional development(3) To introduce new approaches and opportunities to support professional development for adult educators, trainers and mentorsThese objectives will be achieved by(1) Creating guidelines for education professionals for creating and taking advantage of visual dictionaries in their work to achieve better learning results, (2) Producing and piloting a set of visual dictionary resources, to benchmark their benefits perceived by the learners, (3) Creating a modern, user-friendly online environment ""Visual Dictionary Online Creator"" to support these teaching and learning methods and host the resources produced(4) Creating a recommendations document based on the findings acquired throughout the project.The SWIM project proposes creating a modern, collaborative online visual dictionary platform to make use of these possibilities and further explore them. This will be achieved through four Intellectual Outputs, which are interlinked and support each other. The Visualisation for Professionals Development Guidelines will contain theoretical pedagogical information, and step by step guidelines for professionals for creating Visual Dictionary contents and applying them in their work, as well as good practice samples of how to inspire and motivate learners with reward or gamification mechanisms included in the learning environment.The guidelines will be tested in a Transnational training event (C1) in Poland with 17 education professionals.Toolbox of Visual Dictionary Learning Resources is created as a joint effort by all partners and will produce a set of peer-reviewed multi-language visual learning contents that form an open resource toolbox which can be used as a fully online self-directed learning resource, or as part of a face-to-face or otherwise tutor-led learning experience. These resources will also be piloted in local test groups. The documentation of this output process feeds into creation of the Development Guidelines step by step guide section. The free and open access toolbox also works as a live sample and a seed resource attracting creation of more similar contents in the Collaborative environment.Visual Dictionary Online Creator and Library is developed as a modern web-based user interface customised for the two key target group profiles - training professionals and learners. The development process will follow agile methods and special attention will be paid in the usability and user experience; the User Interface design will be done as a joint effort by the three technically oriented partners and tested with the learners. Received feedback is then incorporated into development work in all stages, to ensure the key target audience is heard. Recommendations Document targeted for policy makers will include lessons learned in the project and recommendations for future actions.The project addresses two target groups: Students in any level of training, especially in the process of learning a new languageTeachers/trainers/tutors that work with these students; SWIM provides them not only with a new digital and interactive toolset to enhance the teaching of a new language, but also guidelines on how to best apply the tools in their work."
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