QUID: Quality, Inclusion & Digitalisation

<< Background >>COVID-19 exposed the weakness of distance learning systems, the inadequacy of pedagogical methods and the insufficient capacity of teachers to deliver and evaluate high-quality online courses while safeguarding educational equity (Erasmus+ C(2020) 5495 of 14th August 2020). Even before the crisis, teachers reported digital skills as a key need (18%) but only 36% had taken part in digital upskilling courses (OECD, 2019). These weaknesses were also attributable to the declining trend in EU countries' investment in teacher education and training (Eurostat, 2019) with IT, EL, ES, TR, MT and PL experiencing significant contractions. In response to these critical issues, the QUID project focused on digital technologies to adapt the educational experience to students' personal learning styles and to evolve teaching/learning methods, elevating the role of teachers from a role of mere knowledge transfer to co-creators of knowledge, as mentors, orchestrators and facilitators in learning processes and, from the perspective of professional development, to act as models for lifelong learning.<< Objectives >>•To favour the methodological and technological upskilling of 55 EU teachers from 6 countries (IT, TR, ES, PT, PL, MT), to conceive, design and lead integrated digital didactics-DDI courses, evolving towards the role of Educational Innovation Advisor•To increase and maintain an articulated set of distinctive and emerging didactic, digital and design skills specific to Teacher 4.0 through 10 OERs •To promote the systematic adoption of DDI methods and techniques with the development and dissemination of a Toolkit to inspire and guide the professional actions of future Educational Innovation Advisors •To generate a process of sharing and teaching uniformity in a pool of partnership teachers, involved in a LTTA, on Instructional design and edutainment for the construction of a DDI palimpsest for classes of students from different subject areas •To establish lasting agreements and synergies between schools, methodological and technological innovation training poles and public bodies in order to systemise the train-the-trainer framework developed by the project, support sustainability and the search for excellence in the development of learning and teaching. << Implementation >>Here follow the activities implemented for each objective (O) with evidence of the result ® O1: Fostering the methodological and technological upskilling of EU teachers1.1 Field analysis by conducting Focus Groups 1.2 Definition of the training programme1.3 Definition of the organisational-managerial aspects of the training programme1.4 Piloting of the programme with the realisation of the following sub-activities 1.4.1 Classroom piloting1.4.2 Fine-tuning1.4.2 Train-the-Trainer actionR1: QUID TRAINING PROGRAMMEO2: Increasing and maintaining target skills2.1. Elaboration of learning content 2.2. Development of the OER in the form of interactive video pills and correlated learning tests R2: OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCESO3: Fostering the systematic adoption of DDI approach methods and tools 3.1 Co-development of the QUID Toolkit R3 QUID TOOLKIT O4: Methodological alignment of a pool of teachersLTTA4.1 Organisation of the LTTA 4.2 Delivery of the LTTA A: A TRANSNATIONAL NETWORK OF EUROPEAN TEACHERS established O5: Establishing lasting understandings and synergies5.1 Drafting the MoU 5.2 Stipulation of MoUs R: MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING SIGNED<< Results >>•PR1-1 TRAIN-THE-TRAINER PROGRAMME to acquire and allow the acquisition of the skills of the Educational Innovation Advisor, realised with 12 Focus Groups with 80 teachers and 89 students, tested by 130 teachers of 6 schools in IT, PL, ES, MT, PT, TR with 854 students to verify its effectiveness on the field and to SYSTEMATISE the train-the-trainer actions for a further 145 teachers•PR2-13 OER for DIGITAL UPSKILLING in EN and subtitled in all partnership languages realised as interactive training video pills, delivered by an AI-based Avatar, from which 107 in-depth materials are accessed and accompanied by assessment tests•PR3 - QUID TOOLKIT focused on instructional design and edutainment and accompanied by case studies and good practices•1 TRANSNATIONAL NETWORK OF EUROPEAN TEACHERS established as a result of an LTTA in Madrid with 29 teachers in presence and 19 online, will give continuity to the synergic action of train-the-trainers through social and eTwinning channels•1 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING UNDERSIGNED to formalise the multi-actor cooperation and MADE AVAILABLE to furtherStakeholders•1 POLICY RECOMMENDATION to guide educational policy measures and guidelines.