
DigiMedia
Promoting digital literacy of teachers in adult education
In various projects, the Institute for Education and Media has carried out research on the quality of digital educational media with its partners and developed differentiated quality criteria for the evaluation of educational media in connection with the implementation of the European media competition, Comenius-EduMedia-Award. It was found that the exploration, evaluation and dissemination of high-quality educational media is not enough to improve the learning outcomes. Obviously, high-quality educational media will only be fully effective if they are integrated into a didactically designed teaching and learning concept and teachers have acquired the necessary media skills. From a media didactic point of view, educational media have the enormous potential to make teaching and learning processes different, as media-supported teaching and learning arrangements, self-learning in learning, cooperative scenarios and flexible offers to individualize learning offers. This accommodates the diversity of teachers and learners (Kerres 2017). A key role in this process is the DIGITAL COMPETENCE of teachers, lecturers and trainers in the didactically relevant handling of digital media or with the digitization of teaching and learning environments and learning processes. The partnership therefore aims to promote the teaching, development and consolidation of adult educators’ digital literacy through integration (methodological inclusion and practical use) and procedurally selected, exemplary digital educational media into media-based teaching and learning arrangements.
DIGITAL COMPETENCE is the scientific basis (Baacke1980, Bauer 2017, Swertz 2018): the interplay of abilities, skills and certainties with regard to differentiation and decision-making requirements, as well as didactic responsibility on the basis of structural, technical and factual media knowledge, aesthetic and Ethical media awareness, critical media analysis and didactically differentiated built, context-appropriate media design.
The DigiMedia project sees itself in this sense as an enlargement of the knowledge and action contexts, but also as an enrichment of the perspectives and options of the didactic arrangements in the adult education context and thus as a promotion of the methodological and didactic quality of teaching competence in the context of currently increasing digitization of teaching and learning Learning cooperation in adult education (see Baacke 1980, Bauer 2017). The project is currently in implementation and was awarded funding under Erasmus+ KA204 – Strategic Partinerships for adult education
consortium: Institut für Bildung und Medien der Gesellschaft für Pädagogik (Germany), Institut für Aus- und Weiterbildung (Germany), European Society for Education and Communication (Austria), BITVISER (Netherlands), ERCI (Cyprus), Projactive Consulting (Hungary), University research institute of applied communication (Greece)
implementation period: 01.10.2019 – 31.07.2022
▸ O1 Evaluation Tool “QualiMedia”
▸ O2 Education Media Database “MediaData”
▸ O3 COURSE MODEL “DigiKomp”
▸ O4 MEETING POINT “DigiMedia Community”
▸ O5 eBook “DigiKomp” DIGITAL COMPETENCE
▸ Project Website
▸ Erasmus+ Project Result Database
▸ Join DigiMedia Community on EPALE