Η Ερευνητική Ομάδα DAISSy του ΕΑΠ συμμετέχει στο Ευρωπαϊκό έργο “Open Lab for the up-skilling of higher educational staff in on-line Μanagement Εducation (OLMedu)’’

Posted on 8 June 20218 June 2021 by imessalas

Η ερευνητική ομάδα DAISSy του ΕΑΠ συμμετέχει στο Ευρωπαϊκό έργο «Open Lab for the up-skilling of higher educational staff in on-line Μanagement Εducation (OLMedu)» το οποίο χρηματοδοτείται από το πρόγραμμα Erasmus+ Key Αction: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices και Action Type: Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness, και τονίζει την προσοχή στην ψηφιοποιήση της τριτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης. Το έργο διαρκεί από την 1η Μαρτίου 2021 έως την 28η Φεβρουαρίου 2023.

Συντονιστής φορέας του έργου είναι το Frederick University (Κύπρος) και εταίροι: Τμήμα Διοίκησης Επιχειρήσεων του Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών (Ελλάδα), Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata (Ιταλία), DAISSy Research Group του Ελληνικού Ανοικτού Πανεπιστημίου (Ελλάδα) και GrantXpert Consulting (Κύπρος). Το έργο στοχεύει στη δημιουργία ενός ανοιχτού εργαστηρίου, το οποίο περιλαμβάνει μαθησιακό περιεχόμενο, εκπαιδευτικό υλικό, εργαλεία ΤΠΕ και μια ψηφιακή πλατφόρμα που τα ενσωματώνει, για την αναβάθμιση του προσωπικού της τριτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης στην ηλεκτρονική διαχείριση της εκπαίδευσης.

Οι επιμέρους στόχοι του έργου είναι:

Να παρέχει στο εκπαιδευτικό προσωπικό της τριτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης τις κατάλληλες γνώσεις, δεξιότητες και ικανότητες που απαιτούνται για τη διευκόλυνση της εξ αποστάσεως εκπαίδευσης χρησιμοποιώντας τεχνολογίες και εργαλεία εκπαίδευσης
Να καλλιεργήσει την ικανότητά τους να ενσωματώνουν τις κατάλληλες παιδαγωγικές, στο διαδικτυακό περιβάλλον, να σχηματίζουν τη διαδικασία διδασκαλίας-μάθησης χρησιμοποιώντας διαδικτυακές μεθοδολογίες, προσαρμοσμένες στο εκπαιδευτικό πλαίσιο της διαχείρισης της εκπαίδευσης
Να δημιουργήσει εκπαιδευτικές δραστηριότητες και εκπαιδευτικό υλικό που θα χρησιμοποιήσει το εκπαιδευτικό προσωπικό για να δημιουργήσει αποτελεσματικά θετικά μαθησιακά περιβάλλοντα για τους μαθητές τους, να τους εκπαιδεύσει να συνεργαστεί, να πάρει αποφάσεις, να λύσει προβλήματα και να τα ενσωματώσει σε στρατηγικά σενάρια
Να αναπτύξει την ικανότητα του εκπαιδευτικού προσωπικού της τριτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης να δημιουργήσει διαδικτυακές προσομοιώσεις και να τις ενσωματώσει στην πρακτική της κατάρτισης χρησιμοποιώντας ένα φιλικό προς το χρήστη εργαλείο
Να δημιουργήσει ένα αποθετήριο ανοιχτής πρόσβασης και μια διαδικτυακή κοινότητα πρακτικών για την ανάπτυξη διαδικτυακών δεξιοτήτων και δεξιοτήτων παράδοσης της εκπαίδευσης για το εκπαιδευτικό προσωπικό της τριτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης

Τα αναμενόμενα αποτελέσματα του έργου είναι πολυδιάστατα για τους συμμετέχοντες οργανισμούς, το εκπαιδευτικό προσωπικό της τριτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης και για τα ενδιαφερόμενα μέρη της τριτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης (Πανεπιστήμια, φορείς χάραξης πολιτικής κ.λπ.)

The DAISSy Research Group of HOU succesfuly organised the Final multiplier event of the CrowdDreaming project in Greece

Posted on 3 June 202117 June 2021 by imessalas

The DAISSy Research Group of the Hellenic Open University (HOU), succesfuly organised the multiplier event entitled “Enhancing teachers’ digital skills and creativity”, in the context of the Erasmus+ project “CrowdDreaming – Youth co-create digital culture”. The event took place online, due to the COVID-19 restrictions, on the 14th April 2021. More than 50 representatives of educational, cultural and policy making sectors in Greece participated in the event which was organised by the Greek project partner.

Professor Achilles Kameas, Director of the DAISSy Research Group and Scientific Coordinator of the CrowdDreaming in Greece, opened the event with a short greeting, briefly presenting the objectives and an overview of the results of the project as well as an overview of the activities and European cofunded projects of DAISSy while emphasizing on the ones relevent to the enhancement of digital skills and creativity, and addressed the importance of supporting the educational community.

Following, Ms. Elena Sarli, Promoter of European Programmes at the Regional Directorate of Primary and Secondary Education of Western Greece, presented the active role of the Regional Directorate in terms of information, dissemination and promotion for all European projects, like CrowdDreaming, that aim to innovative educational practices, and highlighted the importance of CrowdDreaming for the educational community and for the promotion of digital cultural heritage among them.

The scope, the methodology and the impact of the project were presented by Ms. Eleni Georgakakou, Project Manager of CrowdDreaming on behalf of DAISSy in Greece. Ms Georgakakou highlighted that the project applied the good Italian practice of the “Art of CrowdDreaming” with aim to encourage young people to reflect and valorize their own cultural heritage and develop digital thanksgiving scenes to acknowledge another nation’s contribution to the European culture. She also noted that in Greece, 21 teachers, together with their students, were enthusiasticly involved in all piloting phases of the project, despite the restrictive measures and unforseen challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They researched the cultural contributions of other European nations to the Greek cultural heritage, learned about new digital tools and created digital scenes for the the virtual monument Europa Square.

Two participant teachers, Ms. Zeta Tsiga and Ms. Niki Efstathopoulou, shared their overall experience from the project, the workshops with their students as well as the story behind the digital scenes they created. How did this project affect them and their students? They realised that digital media can promote values and concepts such as multiculturalism, inclusion, critical thinking, co-creation, sustainable preservation of cultural heritage. Above all, a group of people together as a Connective Mind, can Dreamscape the Future, and thus create History.

At the last part of the event, two very interesting presentations of relevant European projects targeting the educational community with an aim, like CrowdDreaming, to enhance their digital skills and/ or creativity took place. Professor Achilles Kameas presented the project “STEAMonEDU”, which aims to the up-skilling of STE(A)M educators through online tools and a very active community of practice, and Ms. Katerina Nikolakopoulou, Coordinator of Educational Activities in the Regional Centre for Educational Planning of Western Greece, presented the project “Creative Audiovisual Lab for the promotion of critical thinking and media literacy-CrAL”, which exploits audiovisual creative writing and reading towards the promotion of students’ critical thinking and media literacy.

The event closed with a short “thanksgiving” session by the event Moderator and CrowdDreaming project Manager in Greece, Ms. Georgakakou, addressed to all partners, tutors, teachers and students for their great work and cooperation, and to the participants of the event.

Ημερίδα Διάχυσης Αποτελεσμάτων “Ευρωπαϊκά Προγράμματα Σπουδών: Πρόκληση και Καινοτομία για την εκπαίδευση”

Posted on 3 June 20213 June 2021 by imessalas

Η Περιφερειακή Διεύθυνση Εκπαίδευσης Δυτικής Ελλάδας σε συνεργασία με το Ελληνικό Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο – Ερευνητική Ομάδα DAISSy διοργανώνουν Ημερίδα Διάχυσης Αποτελεσμάτων εγκεκριμένων σχεδίων του Ευρωπαϊκού Προγράμματος Erasmus+ τα οποία υλοποιήθηκαν σε σχολικές μονάδες της ΠΔΕ Δυτικής Ελλάδας κατά το σχολικό έτος 2020-2021. Η Ημερίδα θα υλοποιηθεί την Παρασκευή 4 Ιουνίου 2021 στις 8:45-13:00 και έχει ως θέμα: “Ευρωπαϊκά Προγράμματα Σπουδών: Πρόκληση και Καινοτομία για την εκπαίδευση”.

Η Ημερίδα, η οποία θα πραγματοποιηθεί διαδικτυακά στον σύνδεσμο, απευθύνεται σε:

εκπαιδευτικούς και μαθητές/τριες, οι οποίοι/ες διαρκούσης της πανδημίας συμμετείχαν στην υλοποίηση online/δια ζώσης εκπαιδευτικών δραστηριοτήτων στο πλαίσιο του προγράμματος Erasmus+ και θα μοιραστούν την εμπειρία τους.
εκπαιδευτικούς, τμήματα τάξεων μαθητών/τριών, γονείς και καθέναν/καθεμία που ενδιαφέρεται να παρακολουθήσει τις εμπειρίες, τα αποτελέσματα, τις προτάσεις των εισηγητών/τριών της Ημερίδας έτσι ώστε να υπάρξει ένας ουσιαστικός, γόνιμος και εποικοδομητικός διάλογος.

Οι εισηγητές/τριες και οι όλοι οι συμμετέχοντες/συμμετέχουσες θα λάβουν Βεβαιώσεις Συμμετοχής στην Εκδήλωση.

Για να παρακολουθήσετε την Ημερίδα, δηλώστε την συμμετοχή σας εδώ.

Για το Αναλυτικό Πρόγραμμα και τις Περιλήψεις των Εισηγήσεων : link

Cultural Heritage and Digital Transformation” ENCATC Members Talk – 4 June 2021, from 14:00-15:30 CEST, online

Posted on 3 June 20213 June 2021 by imessalas

Dear colleagues,

You’re invited to register for the ENCATC Members Talk “Cultural Heritage and Digital Transformation” taking place on 4 June 2021 from 14:00-15:30 CEST. Experts from 3 projects will help delve into the topic of cultural heritage and digital transformation: What can be learned from the ReinHerit project involving ENCATC member, Arcada University? From the Basilicata Heritage Smart Lab involving ENCATC member, materahub? And from the experience of the EU Heritage project?

This Talk will also include a presentation of EU Heritage training programme and how it has overcome challenges. The Talk is being organised in cooperation of the EU Heritage project – which ENCATC is a proud partner of!

Programme
14.00 – 14:05 Welcome and introduction by GiannaLia Cogliandro, ENCATC Secretary General
14.05 – 14.20 Presentation by Mariachiara Esposito, Seconded National Expert, European Commission
14.20 – 15.00 Project presentations:

ReinHerit project, Susanne Ådahl, PhD and researcher, and Maria Bäck, Senior Lecturer, Arcada University
Basilicata Heritage Smart Lab, Paolo Montemurro, Director, materahub
EU Heritage, Christoph Klütsch, M2C

15.00 – 15.15 Presentation of EU Heritage training programme, Emanuela Gasca, Fitzcarraldo Fondazione
15.15 – 15.30 Open discussion with participants.

Survey on accessible tourism

Posted on 1 June 20211 June 2021 by imessalas

If you are:

a tourism professional (e.g. tour operators, travel agents, service providers, hospitality workers);
an advocate in support of inclusion (e.g. association of people with disabilities);
an educator in tourism (e.g. teacher, lecturer);
a decision maker (e.g. local, regional, national, international authority or entity);

then the DAISSy group of Hellenic Open University kindly invites you to participate in a short online survey on the topic of accessible tourism.

This survey is part of our efforts within the Erasmus+ funded project IN-TOUR, which aims to develop European curricula for inclusive tourism professions. With the questionnaire we intend to gain some insights into the experiences and perspectives of various stakeholders regarding inclusive tourism in general as well as the training of inclusive tourism professionals in particular.
The questionnaire will be open until 13th June.Thank you for your contribution!

Completion of educational actions by the DAISSy research team of HOU in the context of the RE-EDUCO project.

Posted on 16 May 202116 May 2021 by imessalas

REthinking EDUcation COmpetencies. Εxpertise, best practices and teaching in Digital Era (RE-EDUCO) is an action research project aims to create the best conditions of exchange best practices to produce innovation and cooperation in and between countries’ partners (Italy, Spain, Finland, Greece, Cyprus). The RE-EDUCO project aims to strengthen the role of digital culture as a means to improve the growth opportunities for students and teachers, widening their choices in private and professional life, through research, exchange of good practices, training and creative activities.

In the context of the first of the RE-EDUCO outputs, several information and orientation seminars and training activities took place in all partner countries to empower people and community and increase their awareness of risks and opportunities of digitalization for life, learning and professions. The actions had an overall duration of 52 hours (per country) and the topics addressed included:

European Context for digital innovation
New technologies: risk and opportunities for work and life
CyberBullismo
Digital Ethics
Critical use of social media and internet data
New skills and new labour perspective: Trends, profile, emerging competences
Digital technologies & Society 5.0
New Digital Identity and Active citizenship
Secure data and privacy skills and new labour perspective: Trends, profile, emerging

Specifically, seminars and training activities in Greece took place from 1/3/2021 until 24/4/2021 with the participation of three provincial schools, namely the 5th General Lyceum of Agrinio, the 5th General Lyceum of Heraklion and the Model High School of Mytilene. A total of 127 students and 9 teachers were registered and participated. Since the schools were closed throughout Greece due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all actions were realized in an online manner. Both teachers and students expressed their satisfaction with the topics and the educational content and their willingness to participate in other project activities as well, such as the RE-EDUCO’s teachers’ online training and school contest.

DELTA project in the webinar organized by the Greek Archaeological Committee UK!

Posted on 16 May 202116 May 2021 by imessalas

The Greek Archaeological Committee UK takes great pleasure in inviting you to its 61st lecture “Marathon Revisited: The new excavation of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens at the site of Plasi”.

On Tuesday 25 May 2021, at 19:00 (CET), 20:00 (EET) Yiannis Papadatos, Assc. Prof. of Archaeology (NKUA) and partner of DELTA partnership, will give a lecture about the NKUA excavations at Marathon, with the title “Marathon revisited: the new excavation of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens at the site of Plasi”.

The DELTA course will also be presented. Students of the DELTA blended course will have the opportunity to learn about the excavation, where the Intensive Study Programme (part of the DELTA blended course) will take place.

Register here !

DAISSy completed successfully the “Advanced Media Literacy Education to counter online hate-speech” national research in Greece

Posted on 16 May 202116 May 2021 by imessalas

DAISSy Research Group of the Hellenic Open University (HOU) completed the first important step in the implementation phase of the “Advanced Media Literacy Education to counter online hate-speech-AMeLiE” European project. In particular, the research part in Greece has been completed, and it included: the conduction of three Coaching Circles (CCs, Round Table meetings) with teachers and experts during the period March 16-April 5 2021; the analysis of the results, and the development of a national report.

One main innovation of AMeLiE consists in the direct involvement of educators and young people in the co-designing of ideas, campaigns, and initiatives and exploitation of results. Within this scope, the project intends to offer the educational community, including families, but also to modern society, a realistic and effective method for dealing with online hate speech.

The formation of a European community of practice will be the cornerstone for the fruitful interaction of the participants, aiming at the formulation of valid solutions and proposals as well as the sustainability of the project results. Initially, twenty-five (25) pilot schools from European countries participate as a think tank. In Greece in particular, five (5) schools are associated to the project. Specifically in the Coaching Circles procedure, six (6) representatives of pre-school, primary and secondary pilot schools situated in several cities actively participated in two (2) Round Table Online meetings of 90′ each. In addition, four (4) representatives of other, volunteer schools participated in one (1) extra meeting. The specific methodology of CCs technique was applied in each Round Table. Sophisticated tools of this technique are the: active listening, reflection of the speaker’s thoughts and feelings by the participants, respect of the specific time frame in each stages of the interaction, coordination by an expert trained in the technique.

DAISSy Research Group experts collected abundant and important material from the three CCs, which it was analyzed right in the next stage coming into a national report. The results indicated that the participants highlighted many aspects of online hate speech cases, they offered meaningful feedback and provided solid suggestions based on modern teaching and pedagogy. Also, the CCs method received positive reviews as a way of democratic and efficient peer dialogue. It is worth noting the satisfaction expressed by all participants for the coexistence and interaction of representatives from primary and secondary education in the dialogue. They even expressed the wish to establish institutional structures for interaction, exchange of experiences and good practices to address issues of concern at both levels, such as online hate speech is.

DAISSy would like to express their gratitude to the following schools and their representatives for their contribution in the AMeLie research part: Experimental School of the University of Thessaloniki, 2nd High School of Xanthi, Music School of Larissa, GenikoLykeioKastritsiou Patras, 6th Elementary School of Pallini, 24^th Elementary School of Patras, 53^th Elementary School of Patras, Elementary School of Katochori, Kindergarden-NueseryArchontiakathariou.

AMeLiE project aims to address the issue of online hate-speech and is financed by the European Commission, under the Erasmus+ program, Action KA2 Strategic Partnerships in the field of school education. The project is being implemented by a consortium of six partners from five countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania) with DAISSy as the Greek project partner responsible for implementing all activities in Greece, contributing to all Intellectual Outputs and leading the creation of the project Platform and the School Network.

The DELTA consortium participated to 4th project meeting online

Posted on 11 May 202111 May 2021 by imessalas

The DELTA project consortium participated in the fourth transnational meeting of the project. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting initially scheduled to take place in Athens, Greece but finally took place online, on Tuesday 4^th and Wednesday 5^th May 2021.

The DELTA project – Digital Excavation through Learning and Training in Archaeology, is funded under the program Erasmus + / KA2 / Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education. The project is coordinated by the DAISSy research group of the Hellenic Open University (EAP). The project is implemented by a consortium of four partners – Universities from three countries (Greece, Italy and Czech Republic).

The meeting started with an overview of the project and its progress by Achilles Kameas, Head of the DAISSy Research Group, Hellenic Open University. The actions that will take place in Intellectual Output I (IO1) were then analyzed, such as presentation of the developed Module 1 material (Masaryk University), the status of Module 2 (NKUA), the status of Module 3 (UNIBAS) and the status of Module 4 (HOU). The University of Basilicata (UNIBAS) presented the results of the selected applicants derived by the application online form, which closed on the 2nd May 2021. The e-learning platform opens on the 10th May 2021 with Module 1 and all partners will assign two people as Tutors in the Platform. HOU will provide the monitoring and technical support throughout the blended course, to both Tutors and Students in platform.

Also, Masaryk University presented the content of the DELTA Teaching Handbook (IO1/A3) and the Policy recommendations structure (IO1/A5). The first day of the meeting ended with NKUA who showed a list of questions that constitute the evaluation forms of the blended course material (IO1/A4) in Platform.

The second day of the web meeting included equally important presentations, regarding the pending issues of the DELTA platform for the provision of the training program under Intellectual Output II (IO2) as well as the communication, dissemination policy for the more effective dissemination of the project results and deliverables (HOU). University of Basilicata (UNIBAS) presented an indicative detailed programme for the 5 days learning and training [ISP] for the 15 selected students and the 3 trainers, coming from the partner countries that will travel and collaborate in the joint excavation at Μarathon, Greece. The ISP programme is designed by UNIBAS and NKUA will be the host partner of the excavation.

The fourth meeting closed with the presentation of the time –plan and the financial issues by HOU, for the smoother implementation of the DELTA project.

Εναρκτήρια Συνάντηση (Kick off meeting) του Ευρωπαϊκού έργου T4SVEN

Posted on 11 May 202111 May 2021 by imessalas

Η ερευνητική ομάδα DAISSy του ΕΑΠ ανακοινώνει την εναρκτήρια συνάντηση που του Ευρωπαϊκού έργου T4SVEN (Training 4 Skills in the Digital Environment) το οποίο χρηματοδοτείται από το πρόγραμμα Erasmus+ Key Activity 2: Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness in Vocational Education and Training, ως απάντηση στις αλλαγές στην εκπαίδευση και την κατάρτιση που προκλήθηκαν από την πανδημία COVID-19. H συνάντηση διεξήχθη την Πέμπτη στις 6/5.

Κύριος σκοπός του έργου είναι η υποστήριξη των εκπαιδευτών/τριων Επαγγελματικής Εκπαίδευσης και Κατάρτισης (ΕΕΚ) μέσω ενός συνόλου ψηφιακών ανοιχτών πόρων που βασίζονται σε αρχές ψηφιακής παιδαγωγικής, οι οποίοι θα τους/τις εξοπλίσουν με ικανότητες για την ενσωμάτωση των ψηφιακών τεχνολογιών στην εμπειρία τους και, συνεπώς, θα ενισχύσουν την αποτελεσματική διδασκαλία, εμπλουτίζοντας τις μεθόδους της ΕΕΚ, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της μάθησης στο χώρο εργασίας (WBL).

Το έργο διαρκεί από την 1η Μαρτίου 2021 έως την 1η Φεβρουαρίου 2023. Συντονιστής φορέας του έργου είναι ο Οργανισμός Επαγγελματικής Εκπαίδευσης και Εκπαίδευσης Ενηλίκων της Κροατίας και εταίροι είναι το Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών (Ελλάδα), το δίκτυο φορέων Επαγγελματικής Εκπαίδευσης και Κατάρτισης EVBB (Βέλγιο), το Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου (Κύπρος) και το Ελληνικό Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο (Ελλάδα).