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The Italian EduHackathon online: what a success!

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!

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.

For more information, you can take a look at the program of the event.

The EduHack training course at the Politecnico di Torino is starting

On January 20, the second pilot training course of the Edu-Hack project is officially started at the Politecnico di Torino, which will involve about 50 university professors and researchers coming from the Politecnico di Torino, the University of Genoa and the eCampus University, members of the project Network.

The training course will be structured in two phases: until February 28, participants will be able to follow the activities provided by the EduHack online course with the aim of familiarizing themselves with teaching resources and practices offered by the digital world. Then, on the next March 24, participants will be involved in the first Italian EduHackathon to personally experience these tools in the context of a creative and collaborative event, aimed at comparing and developing projects and ideas that could improve the teaching activity and the learning experience in digital environments.

For information and details write to polito@eduhack.eu

At the beginning of the last year …

On Tuesday 24 September, the EduHack Consortium met in Leuven, Belgium, to resume work after the summer break. The last year of the project has officially started and it is time to talk about guidelines for the use of content and tools produced within the EduHack project and about the build of the Network and strategies to disseminate the results obtained and ensure a future to what has been painstakingly built in two years of work. Not before launching the countdown for the other two pilot courses that will test the EduHack approach and content in Italy (Politecnico di Torino) and UK (Coventry University). Stay tuned and keep following us!

EduHack Day on Authentic Assessment at Coventry University

On the 6th of June 2019, the Disruptive Media Learning Lab and Coventry University’s Faculty of Business & Law hosted the first EduHack event at Coventry University, with a focus on creating more authentic ways of assessing students’ learning.

Throughout the day, participants had the opportunity to work in interdisciplinary groups and prototyped solutions to that overall challenge by following a structured approach based on the principles of design thinking while drawing on information, resources and opportunities identified over the previous weeks.

The day started with an overview of authentic assessment, an introdution to design thinking and a few videos on online resources and facilities that can enable this type of assessment activities: Business Simulations, Trading Floor, DigiCom Lab, Moot Room, Wikipedia and web publishing. After that, participants splitted into groups to focus on their preferred approach and went to relevant venues to generate project ideas and design prototypes.

At the end of the day, all participants reconvened at DMLL again to present shorlisted project ideas and associated prototypes. These outcomes will be presented again at the CU Teaching and Learning Conference on the 25th of June 2019 at 3.50 pm.

Further details on the day are available at www.cov2019.eduhack.eu, including some pictures of the day.

In 2019/20 a series of EduHack.eu CPD activities and a university-wide hackathon will take place at Coventry University.