DISCO VET
Theproject aims to come up with a data structure of course and content typology based on current European and national standards and new research. The resulting grid of extra metatada enables a better mapping and manageability of their badges for VET, HE and CPD institutions. Based on the grid, an open source displayer will be developed, accompanied by a 30 hours course on open badges and DSCs targeted to the issuers and validators to support the implementation of the dislpayer platform in their institutions.
| Project title: | Digitaly Signed Credentials and Open Badges in VET and HE |
| Project No: | 2020-1-HU01-KA202-078793 |
| Project coordinator: | Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem (Hungary) |
| Contact person at VMU: | A. Volungeviciene airina.volungeviciene@vdu.lt |
| Project run: | 24 moths (November 2020 – October 2022) |
| Project budget: |
263 265EUR |
Partners:
Intellectual Outputs:
- Report on the skills for open badges and digitally signed credentials in the new era;
- Development of open badge displayer;
- Development of the course on open badges;
- Lessons Learned Kit and DISCO platform user guide.
TEDS
The project aims to contribute to teacher education for sustainability (EduS) in different European countries.
| Project title: | TEDS – Teacher education for sustainability. Schools educating for sustainability: proposals for and from in-service teacher education |
| Project No: |
2019-1-PT01-KA201-060830 |
| Project web page: |
http://teds.web.ua.pt/ |
| Project coordinator: | Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal) |
| Contact person at VMU: | A. Volungeviciene airina.volungeviciene@vdu.lt |
| Project run: | 36 months (September 2019 – August 2022) |
Partners:
Outputs:
- Framework for EduS
- Report about of social representations of teachers and teacher educators on EduS
- Multimodal in-service teacher education programs
- Multimodal case studies
- Framework of in-service teacher education for EduS
Designing digital environment for modern studies
The project aims to develop large scope university model, responding to optimization challenges that universities are faced with.
| Project title: | Large scope university development in the context of university restructurization |
| Project No: |
09.3.1-ESFA-V-738-02-0001 |
| Project coordinator: | Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) |
| Contact person at VMU: | Lina Kaminskiene, lina.kaminskiene@vdu.lt |
| Digitalization action: | Airina Volungeviciene airina.volungeviciene@vdu.lt |
| Project run: | 24 months (September 2019 – August 2021) |
| Project budget: |
3.800.000,00 EUR |
Activity No. 2. Designing digital environment for modern studies
- Modernization of virtual learning environment.
- Establishment of virtual didactical laboratory with the tools for digitally competent teacher.
- Development of the continuous professional development programs “Digitally competent teacher in higher education” and “Digitally competent school teacher”.
DIGI-HE
The project aims to develop a self-reflection tool that will help European higher education institutions develop and enhance their strategic approaches for digitalisation.
| Project title: | DIGI-HE a Strategic Reflection Tool on Digitalisation at European Higher Education Institutions |
| Project No: |
612897-EPP-1-2019-1-BE-EPPKA3-PI-FORWARD |
| Project web page: |
https://eua.eu/101-projects/772-digi-he.html |
| Project coordinator: | European University Association (EUA) |
| Contact person at VMU: | A. Volungeviciene airina.volungeviciene@vdu.lt |
| Project run: | 36 months (January 2020 – December 2023) |
| Project budget: |
471,204.00 EUR |
Partners:
Workpackage results:
- Survey on digitalisation at European HEIs.
- Report with results from desk research and survey.
- DIGI-HE technical tool – online platform (interactive tool).
- Guidelines for HEIs to use DIGI-HE.
- Online publication on the DIGI-HE experience.
- Awareness-raising webinars.
ECCOE
The project aims to support mobility in the European Higher Education Area by developing an “ECCOE-system” for the recognition of digital credentials. The main aim is to facilitate the endorsement and appropriation of open, online and flexible higher education. In support of this overarching objective, the project aims to increase trust in technology-enabled credentials among students, higher education institutions (HEIs) and employers.
| Project title: | ECCOE – European Credit Clearinghouse for Opening up Education |
| Project No: | 2019-1-FR01-KA203-062951 |
| Project web page: | https://eccoe.eu |
| Project coordinator: | Fondation UNIT (France) |
| Contact person at VMU: | A. Volungeviciene airina.volungeviciene@vdu.lt |
| Project run: | 36 moths (September 2019 – August 2022) |
| Project budget: |
449450 EUR |
Partners:
- Fondation UNIT – AUNEGe, France – coordination
- Knowledge Innovation Center LTD, Malta
- Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain
- Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Heilbronn, Germany
- Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
- Vereniging van European Distance Teaching Universities, Netherlands
Activities and outputs:
- Develop quality descriptors for courses, modules, MOOCs and groups of competences;
- Create and validate a Model Credit Recognition Agreement which will be available in 7 languages (DE, EN, ES, FR, IT, LT, NL);
- Set up an online catalogue of over 60 disciplinary and transversal modules which have passed the selection criteria for cross-institution recognition;
- Design a system for technology-enabled credentials;
- Lay the ground for wider take-up via the ECCOE-system network and piloting, by producing and disseminating the supporting documentation that institutional stakeholders need.
National events will take place in the different partner Member States to disseminate the results and involve external stakeholders in ECCOE activities, with the support of public consultations, research papers, online resources and social media.
Expected impact:
- Higher Education Institutions: efficiency, quality, transparency.
- Learners: transparency, mobility, employability.
- Teachers: objectivity of assessment, time-saving.
- Employers: trust in qualifications.
- Policy-makers: systemic vision of the conditions required for the take-up of digital credentials.
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EdDiCo
The project aims to empower individual educators to transform and improve their teaching strategies and find the learning opportunities and resources suitable to acquire needed competences.
| Project title: | EdDiCo – Supporting the Development and Certification of the Digital Competences of Educators |
| Project No: |
2019-1-DE01-KA203-005070 |
| Project web: | https://eddico.eu |
| Project coordinator: | Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Heilbronn (Germany) |
| Contact person at VMU: | A. Volungeviciene airina.volungeviciene@vdu.lt |
| Project run: | 36 moths (September 2019 – August 2022) |
| Project budget: |
439 883 EUR |
Partners:
Intellectual Outputs:
- Competence Meta-Model for Digital Educators;
- Learning Maturity Model for Digital Education Competence;
- Directory of Learning Opportunities and Educational Resources for Digital Education;
- Self-Assessment and Recommendation Tools for Digital Education.
MicroHE
The project aims to provide the most comprehensive policy analysis yet conducted of the impact of modularisation, unbundling and micro-credentialing in European Higher Education.
| Project title: | MicroHE – Support Future Learning Excellence through Micro-Credentialing in Higher Education |
| Project No.: | 590161-EPP-1-2017-DE-EPPKA3-PI-Forward |
| Project web page: | https://microcredentials.eu/ |
| Project coordinator: | Cooperative State University Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany |
| Contact person at VMU: | A.Volungeviciene airina.volungeviciene@vdu.lt |
| Project run: | 36 moths (December 2017 – November 2020) |
Partners:
- Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
- European Distance and E-Learning Network, United Kingdom
- Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
- Tampere University of Technology, Finland
- Knowledge Innovation Centre, Malta
- Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Knowledge 4 All Foundation, United Kingdom
Project activities:
- Gathering the state of the art in micro-credentialing in European Higher Education today, by organizing the first European survey on micro-credentials in HE, surveying at least 70 institutions across the continent, with the aim of understanding the current level of provision, the types of micro-credentials offered and future trends in provision of micro-credentials.
- Forecasting the impacts of continued modularisation of Higher Education on HE Institutions by using forward-scanning techniques, specifically through the use of DELPHI methodology.
- Examining the adequacy of European recognition instruments for micro-credentials, in particular ECTS, the diploma supplement and qualification frameworks.
- Proposing a ‘credit supplement’ to give detailed information about micro-credentials in a way compatible with ECTS, the diploma supplement and qualification frameworks.
- Proposing a meta-data standard and developing an online clearinghouse to facilitate recognition, transfer and portability of micro-credentials in Europe.
Open Online Learning for Digital and Networked Society
The project objective is to enable university teachers to design open and online learning through open and online learning curriculum and environment applying learning analytics as a metacognitive tool and creating open and online learning assessment and recognition practices, responding to the needs of digital and networked society.
| Project name: | Open Online Learning for Digital and Networked Society |
| Project Nr.: | 3.3-LMT-K-712-01-0189 |
| Project coordinator: | Vytautas Magnus University |
| Contact person VMU: | A.Volungevičienė airina.volungeviciene@vdu.lt |
| Project duration | 48 moths (December 2017 – December, 2021) |
The project will be implemented through main activities:
- To identify the needs of digital and networked society for open and online learning through transformation of open and online learning curriculum and environmen.
- To explain through scientific research the method of learning analytics as a metacognitive tool.
- To identify through scientific research the requirements for the process of open and online learning assessment and recognition, relating them to the national and European qualification framework (EQF).
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VOCAL
The project aims to foster the open collaboration of HE teachers and VET trainers to design online, open and collaborative learning activities for diverse target groups embedding digital, social, and intercultural competences.
| Project title: | Vocational Online Collaboration for Active Learning (VOCAL) |
| Project No.: | 2016-1-HU01-KA202-022916 |
| Project web page: | http://www.vocalerasmus.eu |
| Project coordinator: | Budapest University of Technology and Economics – BME |
| Contact person at VMU: | A.Volungeviciene airina.volungeviciene@vdu.lt |
| Project run: | 24 moths (November 1, 2016 – October 31, 2018) |
Project partners:
- Vytautas Magnus University – VMU, Lithuania
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics – BME, Hungary
- Baden-Würtemberg Cooperative State University Heilbronn – DHBW, Germany
- Universidad de la Iglesia de Deusto – UDEUSTO, Spain
- Ogres Tehnikums – OT, Latvia
- Lithuanian Association of Distance and e-Learning – LieDM, Lithuania
In order to meet this aim, the partnership will develop training materials and organise face-to-face, week long training events where teachers and trainers will be able to
- develop skills to digitalise quality learning resources, to design online collaborative learning activities embedding digital, social, and intercultural competence development, and to tutor international, intercultural diverse learner groups,
- collaborate designing mutually online and open curriculum for diverse international learner groups, and
- establish open educational practices for future references.
The project will enhance access to training for all through C-VET developing online and open curriculum and empowering teacher and trainer collaboration.
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OPENPROF
Project aim – to foster open and international professional collaboration for innovation by training them to openly collaborate in the development of online innovative curriculum designing using open educational resources.
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