Improving VET Distance Learning through a Gamified Asynchronous eLearning Methodology (d-ICT)

The current partnership tried shed light on the COVID’s lockdown implications on the VET education and found some significant gaps that led them to apply for the project. The fast-moving transitio...

Through the current project, the consortium partnership aimed to achieve the following objectives: - To meliorate the digital skills and competences of VET educators in the field of distance learning - To create an innovative gamified asynchronous eLearning experience - To combine the assets of gamification and distance-learning - To boost the interest and curiosity of VET learners and keep them captured in the process of teaching, thus, reducing the phenomena of drop- outs due to the boredom non-interactive distance-learning creates - to empower interaction and teamwork with classmates under distance learning circumstances - To raise awareness about the significance of facilitating the distance learning methodology through interactive approaches like digital gamification

The activities planned can be categorized under 4 classifications: MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES, MONITORING ACTIVITIES, (FINAL) PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES, DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES.

With regard the Project Results: PR1: Lessons Learned: Exploring the taken resolutions aimed at facilitating distance learning in the COVID-19 era PR2: “d-ICT e-Toolkit”: Introducing distance learning practices and digital tools to facilitate the e-Learning experience and prevent drop outs PR3: A Gamified asynchronous eLearning experience With regard the project outcomes: - The video-recording of Digital Storytelling interviews by 5 VET educators, as a significant experiential and educational material through the distance learning engagement with their learners - One “d-ICT e-Toolkit” translated in consortium country languages (Excluding the technical partner language Portuguese [ISQe] as an introduction to the world of distance learning innovation including: 1. An e-Curriculum with e-Units, 2. an e-Book with practical interactive distance learning techniques, introduction to Digital Gamification and its applications in distance learning and digital gamification techniques 3. an e-Tool with interactive educational tools, digital gamification tools, tools to facilitate distance learning experience 4. The “d-ICT Website” that will act as an Open Educational Resource (OER) 5. Piloting sessions in 6 countries, by 7 organizations to 20 target users per partner that will test and validate the produced material with a 5 beneficiaries each (per VET educator) in real e-classroom 6. 7 national Multiplier Events.