Digital Immigrants Survival Kit

Context/background of projectThe DigComp 2.0 framework contains the statistic, that in average 46 % of European citizens lack in digital competences (DC). Every possible effort must be made to reduce this number of less educated people. This project focuses on typical DC necessary for people to remain well-integrated members in a digitalized society.Objectives of your projectThe project aims to develop missing digital competences of adults (Adult Education AE with a special focus in so-called ”digital immigrants” which are people disadvantaged in society due to their lack of digital competences DC and therefore count to miner educated people in DC) and to enable them to take an active role in the digital society.The objectives are to create, implement and evaluate 15 modules teaching various specific topics related to everyday life covering DCs as a “Digital Immigrants Survival Kit” (DISK), to use flipped learning 3.0 as the training approach, to create an innovative self-evaluation tool based on competency-based self-evaluation mandalas, to create a transferability and implementation guide, to transfer the results and outcomes in a flexible way in other European countries and finally to publish the modules of the DISK Toolkit as Open Educational Resources (OER).Number and profile of participantsThe consortium consists of 5 partners(3 adult education organisations, one university, and a specialist in course quality & Open Educational resources OER) with complementary skills, experiences and approach to adult education.The applicant is the University of Porto that will focus on adults with lower levels of education and create opportunities for their further education, inclusion and full participation as European Citizens and for their survival in a digitalized world. 3 Adult Training organisations are well distributed in Europe and have complementary approaches to Adult Education: Edrase, GR is well-experienced in trainings on remote places, EFQBL, AT has a specific focus on older people while Training 2000, IT is a professional AE training organization providing training to all ages of adults. Ossiannilsson Quality in Open Online Learning (QOOL) Consultancy is a Swedish organization specialized on quality in trainings and the publishing as OER.Description of activitiesThe major activities will be to develop specific training modules for adults to increase DC in a specific field (competences and skills to handle daily routines and tasks with the need of a specific knowledge and experience)Methodology to be used in carrying out the projectThe chosen methodology is a kind of bottom-up strategy: An analysis creating a competence map is used to identify the specific competences (closely linked to the DigComp 2.0 framework, European Commission 2017). The result is used to develop the Training Content and to develop the training path & pilot testing. The proven modules of the toolkit will be published and enhanced by a comprehensive set of OERs. The transferability and implementation guide enabled the transfer to other European countries.Short description of the results and impact envisaged The result of this project will be a set of 15 training modules for adults less educated in DC to enable them to survive in the digitalized world and to act as active citizens (without exclusion from everyday’s tasks based on DC). Topics will be the connectivity by social media. Privacy, data protection, dealing issues with public authorities and similar issues.The trainings because of the project will enable people to handle their digital identity, will tackle literacy issues related to media and health concerns (justifiable with issues such as vulnerability to false/fake news and the relevance of health concerns in older age) in frame of their role as active citizens.Potential longer-term benefitsLonger-term benefits will be the enhancement of basically necessary DC in countries, where the level of DC of citizens is below the European average. The well-structured and developed blended learning courses (based on flipped learning) can easily be used by organisations to reduce the specifically addressed DC gap of adults in the future (estimated for the next 5 to ten years)