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Cultuforma - Online Platform for Teaching / Learning Spanish Culture

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2018-1-RS01-KA204-000424
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for adult education Funder Contribution: 47,642 EUR

Cultuforma - Online Platform for Teaching / Learning Spanish Culture

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Since 2018 was the year of Cultural Heritage, we saw the need to encourage more people to discover and engage with Europe's, and more precisely Spanish cultural heritage. Following the motto of that year, “Our heritage: where the past meets the future”, we tried to connect the past with the future, that is to say, to digitize Spanish heritage (the literature, art, history, everyday activities, food, tradition, habits) and make it more available through the creation of an online course on the platform called Cultuforma.A survey conducted among members of Association of Spanish language teachers in Serbia (APES 90 members at that moment) showed that a high percentage of teachers had observed the necessity for a course focused on the importance of culture in the acquisition of the Spanish language as a foreign language (97,3% of the respodants considered that a creation of an online platform about Spanish culture, with all didactic material is important and necessary for teachers and students). Guided by those reasons and the analysis of that need, the project team proposed the development of a course available to all Spanish teachers around Europe and beyond. We had two partners: one partner from Romania, with great experience in creating massive open online courses (MOOC), and the other from Spain, who was an indispensable representative of Spanish culture and native speakers. They both transmitted the knowledge they possess and enriched their teaching competence due to the collaboration with their colleagues from Serbia. As a result of the collaboration between the three countries, the course content was based on transnational and multicultural experience, as well as on the needs of each country. The course was made by 12 teachers from different institutions in Serbia (Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, Faculty of Philology and Arts in Kragujevac, Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, public and private primary and secondary schools and language academies ) with great experience in teaching, 4 teachers from Spain with great experience in teaching Spanish as a foreign language and in providing courses such as teaching-training staff for Spanish language teachers, and 2 teachers from Romania with great experience in online courses for Spanish language teachers. The project activities were: Presentation of the project, meeting on Skype with partners, preparation of the material for the platform, preparing the platform (Moodle) with IT expert and connecting it with the websites, and its presentation to all participants of the project in Serbia, preparation of the material and marketing activities (promotion of the course), training/course related to culture with partners from Romania, Spain and Serbia in Salamanca, making the material for the platform (webinars, presentations, articles), conference in Belgrade / Inauguration of the platform: tutorials, applying of the participants, marketing activities, creation of the forums, marketing activities and the course preparation, technical trials and the course preparation, online course on the platform – Module from 1 to 10, conference in Belgrade, staff meeting, certificates, final meeting on Google meet and final meeting of APES project team for conclusions. The course contained 9 modules with 36 articles, 36 PPT and 36 tests and 36 videos and the final exam. In total 229 participants enrolled the course. The course will stay opened and free to use in the future. The course will remain on the page of government of Serbia Digitalna Solidarnost. In each module the participants were able to interact among themselves, as well as with experts from the current field. At the end of the course, each participant got a certificate as proof of the successful completion of the course. The main cultural topics were: Language in the cultural context, Everyday life in Spain, History, Arts and Literature. The participants of the Cultuforma course upgraded their knowledge about the Spanish culture, improved their teaching skills, and had an opportunity to collaborate with colleagues from different countries and exchange teaching experience. On the local, national and regional level the platform was an innovation, since there was no such free learning and teaching resource available previously. Since gaining access to the platform, the educators were able to start a process of a life-long learning and developing their knowledge. Also, the teachers were able to collaborate on a national and international level, which could make future projects and collaborations possible. On the European and international level, the teachers from different countries were able to collaborate and share their skills, knowledge and doubts, as well as exchange teaching experience. As a result, we have a free online course with downloadable material which could be useful in the classroom since it has complete PPT presentations, articles, videos and tests which can be directly integrated into class.

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