DigiSkills hosts "Skilled Teachers through Open Classrooms to Innovative Learning" Synergy Workshop

DigiSkills was invited to host a Synergy Session at the 2015 EDEN Annual Conference in Barcelona on June 12th. The Session was a great opportunity to organise a face-to-face workshop for the implementation of DigiSkills. The Workshop was implemented as a Synergy Session: Skilled Teachers through Open Classrooms to Innovative Learning and was targeted on higher education, and adult learning experts and had cca 30 participants.

The workshop started with the presentation of the DigiSkills project focusing on the current outcomes and the Final Conference in Athens. All participants were invited to the Digiskills Community and Repository and the Final Conference was introduced. This was followed by the short presentations of the practices and projects invited. 11 Practices/projects active in the field of digital skill for teachers were invited to present their practices and to discuss collaboration and synergies for further work. During the presentations, participants considered how the outcomes of the presented practices can be useful, adoptable for own use and what the current challenges may be. Participants took notes on post-its during the presentations and attached them on the wall for further brainstorming. After the presentations, all representatives and participants continued to discuss the ideas and notes they took on post-its and talked about further collaboration until the end of the session.

Following the session, to share more ideas, participants were invited to add their  practice/initiative to the DigiSkills repository and to join the network. We are pleased with the results of the discussion and would like to continue to do so and to facilitate the potential collaborations between the practices and the experts. Therefore an online collaborative space was created, and filled with the requests, ideas and questions that came up during the session and participants are now invited to continue to explore further collaboration online. To continue networking, all presentations of the invited practices are available to download (see list below) and selected practices are directly contacted to register to both the Digiskills Community and the Good Practice repository.

Resources (downloadable presentations and descriptions of the practices in the Book of Abstracts):

Downloadable Presentation: DigiSkills - Network for the Enhancement of Digital Competence Skills
http://digiskills-project.ea.gr/
Detailed description in the Book of Abstracts and Projects: page 197

Downloadable Presentation: SCORE2020 - Support Centres for Open Education and MOOCS in Different Regions of Europe 2020 - score2020.eadtu.eu
Detailed description in the Book of Abstracts and Projects: page 199

Downloadable Presentation: SAILS - Strategies for Assessment of Inquiry Learning in Science - http://www.sails-project.eu/portal
Detailed description in the Book of Abstracts and Projects: page 200

Downloadable Presentation: ODS - Open Discovery Space - http://www.opendiscoveryspace.eu/
Detailed description in the Book of Abstracts and Projects: page 201

Downloadable Presentation: Hands-On ICT - Learn, Practice, Teach Creativity and ICT - http://handsonict.eu/
Detailed description in the Book of Abstracts and Projects: page 203

Downloadable Presentation: INUITEL - Intelligent Tutoring Interface for Technology Enhanced Learning - http://intuitel.wp.vbox-ice.de/
Detailed description in the Book of Abstracts and Projects: page 204

Downloadable Presentation: CAMELOT - CreAting Machinima to Empower Live Online Language Teaching and Learning - http://camelotproject.eu/
Detailed description in the Book of Abstracts and Projects: page 205

Downloadable Presentation: JamToday - The European Game Jam Learning Hub - http://www.jamtoday.eu/
Detailed description in the Book of Abstracts and Projects: page 207

Downloadable Presentation: SharedOER - A Scoping Study on the Potential of Shared, Cross-Border OER and Syllabi in Europe - http://poerup.referata.com/wiki/SharedOER
Detailed description in the Book of Abstracts and Projects: page 208

Downloadable Presentation: OEI2 - Open Educational Ideas and Innovations - http://idea-space.eu
Detailed description in the Book of Abstracts and Projects: page 209

Downloadable Presentation: OpenProf - Open Professional Collaboration for Innovation - http://www.openprof.eu
Detailed description in the Book of Abstracts and Projects: page 210

Downloadable Presentation: ECO - Elearning Communication Open-Data - http://www.ecolearning.eu
Detailed description in the Book of Abstracts and Projects: page 211