Our purpose
The main objective of ACADIGIA is to accelerate digital readiness of Polytechnic higher education institutions towards the sustainable adoption of more online and blended approaches in education.
How
The project will generate a viable solution to speed-up towards the digital readiness of Polytechnic HEIs, and focus not only on providing tools and resources but also testing an innovative mentoring scheme to generate intra-institutional teams of educational practitioners that deepen in reinventing their pedagogies and implementing more online and blended approaches. It will tailor an acceleration model and policy lines for the HEIs to make the methods replicable, and add this last piece in the transnational scenery to complete the European puzzle of: #Frameworks of operation -> #Evaluation models -> and now the added “Acceleration model”.
Project Structure
The project encloses 3 Intellectual Outputs:
IO1. Compendium of augmented blended teaching
This IO will develop guiding materials that enable a fast introduction and the usage of tools for blended methods in the Polytechnic HEIs. As a direct result, it is expected that a kit will be in place allowing HEIs to reinvent/rethink their role according to the flagship EU frameworks, do a fast diagnostic and grasp the basic use of the most recent open pedagogic tools.
This IO will develop guiding materials that enable a fast introduction and the usage of tools for blended methods in the Polytechnic HEIs. As a direct result, it is expected that a kit will be in place allowing HEIs to reinvent/rethink their role according to the flagship EU frameworks, do a fast diagnostic and grasp the basic use of the most recent open pedagogic tools.
IO2. Training the mentors
IO3. Bringing ACADIGIA to life
This IO will dive into team formation and capacity building actions delivered directly to the teaching staff of the Polytechnics, and let the ACADIGIA methodology flourish and root within the institutions’ strategic policy lines. As a direct result, it is expected that the Polytechnic HEIs will have in place a team of mentored educators-ambassadors of the blended approaches, operating in peer-support groups that constantly develop, follow-up the latest cutting-edge technological tools and use them with pedagogical added value.