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The Italian EduHackathon online: what a success!

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Great success for the first Italian EduHackathon organized and promoted by the Nexa Center for Internet and Society of the Politecnico di Torino. The event, because of the Covid-19 emergency, was held entirely online on 27-28 April 2020, experiencing a form of participatory distance event in which 20 teachers from different disciplines and from different universities (Politecnico di Torino, University of Genoa and eCampus University) took actively part. The teachers involved, divided into 5 working groups and lead by 5 experts and facilitators, collaborated intensively in the elaboration of 5 ideas (Collaborative learning, Il gioco dei Lego, Drag&Fly, Decameroom and Path to the Future), valorizing what they learned by following the EduHack online course and working together, with very good results, to the concrete development of projects and tools to improve teaching and learning in digital environments.

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EduHackathon online at Politecnico di Torino!

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The Italian EduHackathon, second multiplier event of the Edu-Hack project initially scheduled in Turin on 24 March and postponed due to the Covid-19 emergency, will be held on 27-28 April 2020, experimenting with an online formula. After following the activities proposed by the EduHack Online Course, 20 professors and researchers from the Politecnico di Torino (which organizes and manages the event), the eCampus University and the University of Genoa, assisted by 5 facilitators, will meet to work remotely in groups on the development of 5 project ideas for the building of tools or practices useful for online teaching and learning.

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The EduHack Network lives!

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Today was held the first webinar for the universities and institutions that decided to join the EduHack Network in recent months. Great participation and enthusiasm for the EduHack project and its purposes, which the Consortium partners have illustrated in detail focusing in particular on the training pilot paths experimented within it and on the several tools and services that the project makes available to its network, to then collect questions, suggestions, and ideas for future use by all the new members.

The EduHack Network is alive and ready to collect the participation of other universities and institutions interested in its approach and, more generally, in the development of innovative practices in the field of education.

EduHack Project Kick-Off meeting in Torino

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A number of recent policy initiatives, in particular the European Commission’s Opening Up Education Communication and its related actions (such as the Open Education Europa portal), have put a renewed emphasis on the creation and pedagogically-sound use of digital resources for education. Within Higher Education, the emergence of Open Educational Resources (OER), Massively Online Open Courses (MOOCs) and other blended methodologies (such as for example Flipped Classroom methods) is vastly increasing the demand for digital learning opportunities. Higher Education field is suffering from an acute lack of teachers with the appropriate expertise to design and develop digital educational resources and run ICT-enabled educational courses. These skills include not only a level of technical competence and knowledge of educational technologies, but also the capacity to use ICT in a pedagogically sound way, the fluency with open education approaches (open licenses, OER, etc.) and the ability to coordinate multi-disciplinary teams in the realisation of course-development activities.

Consortium set up of five European partners met in December 2017 in Torino, to set the foundations of a three years long project – EduHack – that will address this challenge in an innovative way. During the meeting, partners reviewed existing strategies aiming to build up digital competences of educators in Europe, revised proposed methodology and agreed on the next steps. In the months to come, partners will be working on developing curricula for the EduHack Online Course, based on DIGCOMPEDU competence Framework by European Commission.

 

By the end of the project, EduHack will have equipped at least 90 teachers from 30 different institutions to design and deliver their own e-learning courses.

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