Mentorship skills have been exercised today! We had the presentation of the theory and one exercise for each one of these topics: Stages of Mentoring Relationships Active listening Building trust and empathy Flexibility and conflict management We were able to put into practice exercises in groups and pairs for example drawing the “ideal” mentor, role-play…
Today we are focusing on the digital competence of our mentors, namely on these topics: Open education resources, tools, practices Designing digitally enhanced learning and teaching Designing digitally enhanced evaluation and assessment UPT partners are leading the digital competence training and we are working in a practical way, so our mentors feel more capable of…
Our short-term joint staff training event has started today in Porto (Portugal), in ISCAP, and will be held until Friday! We are working with the mentors of different European Universities in the field of mentorship and digital competences. Stay tuned!
Case study: e-learning applied to industrial engineering from the perspective of Italian students
On 8th April we had our second Transnational Project Meeting, in Madrid, hosted by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. This was a meeting that happened in a blended format, making it feasible for the participation of all project partners. We discussed different topics about the ongoing tasks related to the project implementation as well as next…
Cisco Webex is a cloud-based platform that supports web conferencing services. It is one of the most trusted online meeting platforms and is considered ideal for teaching and learning activities because it offers many different features for distance-learning. Many ACADIGIA members have used Webex as an official conference solution during the pandemic therefore its applicability as a teaching and learning tool has thoroughly been tested by professors and students.
The Jupyter Notebook has exploded in popularity since late 2014, fuelled by its adoption as the favourite environment for doing data science. It has also grown as a platform to use in the classroom, to develop teaching materials, to share lessons and tutorials, and to create computational stories.
The ACADIGIA project team has used the Digital Competence of Educators framework (DigCompEdu) to assess Jupyter Notebook contribution to the digital competence of educators and learners.
In ACADIGIA we accelerate digital readiness of Polytechnic higher education institutions towards the sustainable adoption of more online and blended approaches in education! At this stage of the project implementation, we are just few days far from releasing a breakthrough International report on the state of the blended learning that was widely adopted during the…