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EduApp project is about joining forces and expertise to create the framework and resources for digital education and communication in the partner institutions, as an answer to the challenges of the 2020 pandemics. No matter which country we come from, during the pandemics, when the education moved to online, we faced the same challenges: insufficient degree of digitalisation in our institutions- in terms of teachers' digital skills, but also expertise in organising e-learning or blended learning, equippment shortage or insufficient digital learning resources, too many channels used for communication and not enough expertise in shifting from traditional classes to online. Our project proposes a solution for the above mentioned needs and challenges, with long term benefits, and effects, consisting in digital resources, a training program for teachers on how to develop digital resources and an application for mobile devices for each partner school.It is a partnership between 5 institutions, FEG, from Romania, SOSU Ostjylland from Denmark, Stichting Landstede from Netherlands, Instituto Politecnico de Santarem, Portugal and IES El Rincon from Spain who will create a set of tools that would built digital education readiness and will reduce the impact of the crisis in the VET field. The partner schools have expertise in healthcare education at different levels , in using ITC in education and two of the partners, in programming applications. The objectives of the project are:1.To increase the access to digital learning resources for all students by creating a collection of video courses, tutorials and other resources used in teaching, learning and evaluation, that will be available online and offline.2. To develop the digital pedagogical competences of 16 teachers from the partner schools who will be trained into the e-learning and blended learning pedagogy and into creating video courses, tutorials and other educational resources specific to their subjects and who will peer train other colleagues. 3. To facilitate and increase the communication between school, students and teachers by developing an application, EduApp, free and open source, customised for each partner school.The main expected results of the project are:1. EduApp -an all-in one application for desktop and mobile devices aiming at facilitating communication between school, teachers and students, with a notification pushing system, links to courses, activities and other resources available in the institution and a Guidelines on how to set up and use the application EduApp, including tutorials for teachers, students and staff members 2. A collection of digital learning materials containing 30 video courses transposing the content into audio-video materials, 15 tutorials for practical training ,15 evaluation resources and other materials, to be used in online, blended and distance training and a teachers’ Guide on how to create effective digital learning resources 3. EduPlatform- a Moodle based platform containing all the resources created during the project and a State-of-the Art Report based on the results of the needs analysis carried in the partner institutions.Besides these tangible results, we expect the project to contribute to the following: the schools' readiness to incorporate blended learning and e-learning, increased communication by using their own application EduApp, customised after their needs, increased access for the students and the teachers to online and offline digital learning resources. the schools' increased capacity in running EU funded projects and all the good practices captured and transferred in the partner institutions. Another important results is the fact that some of our schools are, for the first time, developers of multi media content for their training program, fact that will lead to an extension of the ITC use in VET education.EduApp project will involve over 46 teachers, 300 students, 6 managers, 6 technicians and administrative staff in developing, testing and revising the project final products.The project includes, besides management activites (local and overall management, 4 transnational project meetings, monitoring and evaluation) and dissemination activities ( local ongoing publicity, 5 multiplier events and a final conference), 3 Short Term Joint Staff Training Events, during which 16 staff members will be trained into e-learning and blended learning pedagogy, in how to create digital learning resources (DLR), will share good practices and work together to elaborate the Intellectual Outputs, which is another activity in the project plan. The technicians involved in the activities will develop, test and adjust EduApp a strong tool that would facilitate and increase the intra, inter and external communication in the school.The project will produce and make available all the necessary resources so that it could be multiplied and serve as inspiration for other teachers and schools.
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