Today is the final day of our “The Rising of the Mentors” course! It has been a wonderful journey through mentoring and digital competences. We had the chance to share the main advantages for each of the participants and trainers that we summarised in the following activity: Thanks for all who have participated in the…
We continue working on the mentorship skills of our super mentors! It is being a great experience for all of us and both trainers and trainees are feeling that this week was very productive and constructive to capacitate all the participants in the field of mentorship competencies. The fourth day is being dedicated to the…
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
The Kallipos project regards the first comprehensive effort to introduce electronic interactive, multimedia textbooks in Higher Education in Greece. Specifically, it targets at the organized creation, storage, distribution and long-term preservation of open-access textbooks and learning objects for the Academic and Research Community.
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 partners of the ACADIGIA project used the Digital Competence of Educators framework(DigCompEdu)to evaluate Moodle as a blended & online learning tool, assessing the Moodle contribution to the digital competence of educators and learners. Find out more details here!