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OPEN AE (mini) kick off at ALL Digital Summit

A new Erasmus+ KA2 on Strategic partnerships for Adult Education has started. ALL DIGITAL is the coordinator of the project  OPEN AE- Promote Open Source Technologies in non-formal Adult Education. Open AE was awarded through EPOS which is the National Agency for Erasmus + programme in Flanders.

OPEN AE will address these key challenges and generate best practices based on these needs. The twofold aim of OPEN AE are to: 1) Contribute to the development of e-facilitators competences to deliver high quality and relevant digital skills training to adults;

2. Contribute to the promotion of open source technologies and open education in non-formal adult education

At the ALL DIGITAL Summit partner met briefly to start planning actions for the first months of the project which are to develop a curriculum and training scheme to develop a better understanding of the main e-facilitators’ training needs in relation to the use of open source technologies and define the “state of the art” in teaching open source technologies by mapping available training offers and available OERs at country level. Four countries reports and a European report will be developed in early 2019.

In addition to the coordinator ALL DIGITAL, YNTERNET.ORG (Switzerland), COLECTIC (Spain), Centro Studi Citta Di Foligno Associazione (Italy) and Maks vzw(Belgium), are in the partnership for the OPEN AE project.

The official OPEN AE kick off meeting will take plan in Brussels in December.

Open AE: Promote open source technologies in non-formal adult education

Project Funded by:  Erasmus+ KA2 project awarded through EPOS – National Agency for Erasmus+ programme in Flanders

Project Duration:  24 months

Start Date:  01/11/2018

End Date:  31/10/2020

Open AE: Promote open source technologies in non-formal adult education

Open AE: Promote open source technologies in non-formal adult education is an Erasmus+ KA2 project awarded through EPOS – National Agency for Erasmus+ programme in Flanders.

Open AE has three priorities:

  • to promote access and learning through open educational resources (OER);
  • to promote Open Source (OS) technologies in the non-formal educational sector to support the upskilling of adult educators and learners;
  • to address adult trainers working in the non-formal educational sector to reinforce digital skills and competences.

Open AE will address key challenges and generate best practices based on these needs identified by ALL DIGITAL members in developed sustainable curricula for adult education, particularly with a focus to upscale low-skills unemployed adults. OPEN-AE wants to support European digital competence centres in becoming innovative training hubs.

The twofold aim of Open AE is to:

  • contribute to the development of e-facilitators competences to deliver high quality and relevant digital skills training to adults;
  • contribute to the promotion of open source technologies and open education in non-formal adult education.

Expected results and outputs:

  • Develop a curriculum training scheme on open source technologies addressed to e-facilitators working in non-formal adult education, mapped on the DigCompEdu Framework (CSF will lead this work)
  • Create an online toolkit for e-facilitators in five languages (EN, NL, FR, IT, ES) by adapting open educational resources already available. It will serve as guidance for adult education strategies, tools and approaches for developing digital skills training. (led by Ynternet.org)
  • Develop a modular blended course of 60 hours in open source technologies and pilot it with 40 e-facilitators from four countries to improve their knowledge of open digital learning technology, tools, platforms and using them (led by Colectic)
  • Produce guidelines for transferability and upscaling of project results and recommendations for non-formal education providers and policy makers (led by ALL DIGITAL)

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