Distance learning positification: technostress relief and wellbeing

The Covid-19 pandemic had a major impact on education. Lockdowns disrupted schools globally, affecting 1.5 billion students in 188 countries. Schools rapidly shifted to online learning, forcing teachers and students to adapt to digital platforms. This shift highlighted both the strengths and weaknesses of digital education. A key lesson was the psychological strain—stress, anxiety, and isolation—caused by unpreparedness for tech-based learning. As schools reopen, digital tools remain essential, requiring new levels of readiness, resilience, and capacity. Supporting well-being in the digital learning context is crucial, especially as teachers play a vital role. They must be empowered as change agents, with updated digital competencies to navigate online scenarios and address psychological effects like technostress or depression. The POSITIVE LEARN project responds to these needs, supporting teacher and student readiness, addressing mental health, and filling gaps in digital and emotional skills. It promotes positive psychology and computing in teaching, aiming for healthier, more adaptive digital education systems.

The project aims to help schools navigate digital transformation in a healthy, supportive, and emotionally balanced way. It will equip teachers with tools to promote positive emotions, motivation, and well-being in digitally transformed classrooms, especially in response to Covid-19 challenges. Using a positive psychology and computing approach, it addresses emotional impacts of increased tech use, like technostress, isolation, and anxiety. As digital education becomes permanent, the project emphasizes integrating well-being and mental health into teaching. It tackles challenges such as unequal access to technology, stress management, student motivation, and emotional strain. The project’s goals include: 1. Developing a framework for integrating well-being across subjects. 2. Providing ready-to-use learning materials and scenarios. 3. Building competencies around tech-related health and emotional resilience. 4. Enabling cross-European collaboration for positive learning. 5. Offering evidence-based implementation guidelines. 6. Proposing future institutional and policy recommendations.

•Management: Set up structures for smooth cooperation •Implementation: Developed competency/pedagogical frameworks, created/validated learning scenarios, captured lessons for guidelines •Valorisation: Disseminated outcomes via papers, media, and events

R1: Overview of European Distance Learning Positification Requirements and Stakeholder Analysis R2: Competency Framework for Positive Digital Solutions R3: Open Learning Scenarios and Exchange Platform (User Support Bundle) R4: Distance Learning Positific