Objective 1: Develop an innovative multidisciplinary and cross-sectional curriculum for students from the computer and information, health, and social sciences background, with the main focus on cooperation between sectors for strengthening the existing knowledge, skills, and entrepreneurship, in the first ten months of the project, by an international team of eHealth informal and formal educational providers within partner institutions.
CONNECT Project: eLearning course module (Click on the image opens the course)
Objective 2: Provide one Intensive Study Programme (ISP) to 42 students from computer and information, healthcare, and social sciences backgrounds in mixed working groups in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in September 2022 in order to facilitate student’s challenge-based learning collaborations by having students develop eHealth applications in the form of a project with real implication in the field of eHealth.
Objective 3: Develop a transnational network of key actors from academia, industry, and NGOs to establish collaborations, exchange best practices and facilitate long-distance mentorship for students who graduated from the Intensive Study Programme through an online platform “eHealth Community of Practice” through the end of the project.
Further Information about the CONNECT Project
The sustainability of the project will be ensured firstly by integrating the open-source Curriculum that will be developed by the partners into the course of eHealth at the Department of Public Health, from BBU, as part of their educational program at the Bachelor’s and Masters’s level. Therefore, one of the intellectual outputs of the project will be transferred to them and other interested higher education institutions in order to create a long-term use for our product.
The “eHealth Community of Practice” online platform will be available for at least three years after the project completion period, constituting a transnational network of members from academia, industry, and healthcare and as a mentorship platform for future health innovators.
CONNECT Project: CoP Platform
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This project focuses on the national priority of “Tackling skills gaps and mismatches” through delivering an education program, which engages students from across European countries to enable continuous innovation and entrepreneurship in the European eHealth sector.
The main focus of the CONNECT project is on issues of eHealth innovation, state-of-the-art training, and education of students necessary on the health market, in the form of a highly and systematically organized formal and non-formal educational program to improve knowledge, develop cross-sectoral skills and competencies, entrepreneurship, and support students’ critical thinking required to improve health care.
Project partners
Universitatea Babes Bolyai (RO), Coordinator
Asociatia Init (RO)
Universidade do Porto (PT)
Europäische Bildungsinitiative (AT)
Expected outcomes and long-term benefits
The sustainability of the project will be ensured firstly by integrating the open-source Curriculum that will be developed by the partners into the course of eHealth at the Department of Public Health, from BBU, as part of their educational program at the Bachelor’s and Masters’s level. Therefore, one of the intellectual outputs of the project will be transferred to them and other interested higher education institutions in order to create a long-term use for our product.
The ISP (Intensive Study Programme), with the use of new pedagogies, formal and non-formal methods, and challenged-based teaching and training offered by our partners, will create the perfect enhancement for the students to be creative, innovative, and collaborative and develop digital healthcare prototypes that are feasible to be implemented in the real-life environment in eHealth.
The “eHealth Community of Practice” online platform will be available for at least three years after the project completion period, constituting a transnational network of members from academia, industry, and healthcare and as a mentorship platform for future health innovators.
Another activity that will ensure the continuity of the project will be the “Connect the eHealth Innovation Ecosystems” Conference, which will be organized every two years to increase further and sustain our eHealth network.
Project results
Community of Practice (COP) platform
A community of practice is a group of people who share a common interest or profession and engage in ongoing learning and collaboration to improve their skills and knowledge. They often interact online and offline to discuss best practices, share resources, and provide support to one another. Members of a community of practice are committed to their collective learning journey and are invested in the success of their peers.
This CoP addresses Universities and institutions that are interested in eHealth. Link: connect.publichealth.ro/
Moodle e-Learning Curse
This course contains the developed eHealth curriculum and was implemented based on multimedia content and interactive elements. It provides a colour code for the modules to keep an overview. Moodle e-Learning course: moodle.publichealth.ro
Objectives of the Project Objective 1: Develop an innovative multidisciplinary and cross-sectional curriculum for students from the computer and information, Read more
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The EBI/EIE is partner in the CICERO Erasmus+ Project 2018-1-SE01-KA204-039051. Currently the EBI/EIE team is develloping IO #2, the ECH Database.
This is the first screen shot of the webpage hosting the database of the “European Cultural Heritage Image Database”.
This is an outcome of the CICERO project and will offer CC-4.0 licensed pictures of typical European Heritage. The images are free to use (except for commercial use) and will cover various topics representing the treasure of European Culture.
The European Commission describes European Cultural Heritage as
“… a rich and diverse mosaic of cultural and creative expressions, an inheritance from previous generations of Europeans and a legacy for those to come.
It includes natural, built and archaeological sites, museums, monuments, artworks, historic cities, literary, musical and audiovisual works, and the knowledge, practices and traditions of European citizens.
Cultural heritage enriches the individual lives of citizens, is a driving force for the cultural and creative sectors, and plays a role in creating and enhancing Europe’s social capital. It is also an important resource for economic growth, employment and social cohesion, offering the potential to revitalise urban and rural areas and promote sustainable tourism.”
Images for this database are taken from the upcoming photo contest that will take place in the frame of the project as well.
The Greek partner in the project – Challedu – developped the logo for the project. This project aims to support the adult educators at designing, delivering and promoting more attractive and inclusive education for all generations of adult learners.
Partners in this project are Escuela Oficial de Idiomas Madrid-Villaverde, Spain; Challedu, Greece; ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE EDUVITA E.T.S.. Italy; Europäische Bildungsinitiative / European Initiative for Education, Austria and Ecological Future Education, Latvia. The project coordinator is Fundacja Alternatywnych Inicjatyw Edukacyjnych from Poland.
The European Initiative for Education (EBI/EIE) will impact with the specific knowledge about Flipped Learning 3.0. Here we will use results from the Flipped Adult Education project where the EBI/EIE is project coordinator.
Since it is currently impossible to hold physical meetings, the first meeting of the project team was held virtually. Nevertheless, the personal meeting is an essential part of Erasmus+ projects to exchange experiences. Therfore, the kickoff meeting was postponed to the spring of next year. People from all artners participated at this meeting:
EBI Peter Mazohl
BrainLog Martin Savchev
EuphoriaNet Cristina Ceccarelli
Donatella Claps
Erika Nemes
AJITER Joana Mendes
All steps to bring the project on track have been done and the working plan for the first activity – as scheduled in the project plan – has been deveeloped and agreed.
Further information is available from the webpage of the project: Intermedia Project
If you are interested in further details of the project please contact Peter Mazohl from the EBI/EIE.
Implementation of Interactivity and Multimedia-Based Content using Multiple Devices in Adult Education
The world today is digital. In trainings, various types of digital devices are used. This includes desktop PCs, laptops, notebooks, Chromebooks, tablets, covertibles and smartphones. We call them “Multiple Devices”. They enable the use of technology enhanced trainings with an implementation of multimedia-based and interactive (M&I) training materials. This sounds simple – the problem is the delivery of content so that it is displayed (and can be used by the trainees) on all types of devices. Another issue (in this context) is the creating of high-quality multimedia-based and interactive (M&I) content – especially in smaller Adult Education organisations.
The project serves to exchange experiences and to develop digital skills, especially in the multimedia area within the staff of the participating organisations. Furthermore, the development and use of M&I learning materials should be worked out together, brought into context with multiple devices and developed in a comprehensive documentation. A special focus is put on methodology and approaches to support seniors in this digital-oriented learning and trainings. Furthermore, the organisations will use the gained experience and knowledge to promote Erasmus+ programs – and in this sence especially courses – to all generations in their home countries.
The EBI/EIE is partner in a new ERASMUS+ project
where the EBI/EIE has written the application.The project aims to develop and
evaluate multimedia based teaching material using the innovative “Analogous
Compare and Transfer” Method (acronym ACAT) approach to teach science subjects,
namely physics, biology and chemistry. The ACAT method is a methodology
concerted on the pattern of thinking of girls enhancing the well-known logical
paths boys are using normally and supports the learning of boys as well.
A study from 2017 proofs the acceptance of
the pedagogical approach and confirms the usability with an evident preference
of female students. In general, the students appreciate the method with higher
approval of the female learners. In the same way, the female learners show a
stronger agreement to the use of multimedia material, specifically using the
described method and to enable the transfer from everyday life images to
scientific imagination and clear ideas dealing with the currently discussed
problem.
Project Objectives
The objectives are
Use of an “image-based teaching system” which favours the scientific learning
behaviour of (approx. 70 % of) girls with a good learning success for boys as
well
Developing multimedia-based and/or interactive
examples of best practice (called tools in this application) focusing on physics (for example quantum physics), biology (for example virtual
dissections) and chemistry
(comprehending chirality utilizing VR-technology).
Use a self-evaluation model for students to estimate their increase of
competences
Evaluation of these examples in
several schools (transnational)
Development of a transferability guide for teachers
Publishing of the created and
evaluated material as OERs
The project starts with December 2018 and
lasts for two years.
The applicant organisation is the Colegio Internacional Costa Adeje (Spain), partners are Dragonskolan (Sweden), the Europäische Bildungsinitiative (Austria) and the Dublin Dun Laoghaire Educationand Training Board (Ireland).
This is the acronym for the “Analogous Comparison and Transfer” Method. This pedagogical approach to teaching STEM subjects was developed by Peter Mazohl (EBI/EIE Austria) and published at the ICERI 2017 (International Conference for Education, Research, and Innovation in Seville).
An example for the ACAD transfer in Quantum Physics (What are quantum objects?)
This method
means a new pedagogical approach to strengthen female learners in STEM
subjects. The method was developed in School Education and focuses on the age
of 16 to 18 years old students. The method uses analogous comparisons by taking
examples or situations from everyday life and in consequence the logical or
analogous transfer to the scientific problem. The method uses the development
of imaginations or “pictures in the head” to develop a view of the analogy;
this picture is transferred as a problem-solving idea to the concrete
scientific problem. Multimedia material like animations are used to provide a
higher level of imagination and to develop the understanding for the discussed
problem. The method was developed in the disciplines physics, mathematics and
computer science and was tested in physics at high school level.
It turned
out that male learners also benefit from this approach and get a deeper
understanding in the fields of science.
To proof
the ACAT method and to test the usability and get some reference to the
published study an ERASMUS+ KA2 School Project was started (with December
2018). The project’s outcomes will be several examples of the implementation of
the ACAT method, tested and evaluated in a Spanish, an Irish, and finally in a
Swedish school.
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