BRIGHTS project at the 8th edition of the conference “The Future of Education” in Florence

Ioannis Messalas — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 05:48:44 +0000

BRIGHTS Project participated in the 8th edition of the international conference “The Future of Education” organized by PIXEL in Florence on June, 28-29 2018. The purpose of the event was to foster international cooperation and share good practices in the field of innovative education. The conference gathered around 200 participants, including teachers, researchers, practitioners and project managers from around the world to share their expertise and knowledge about innovative teaching and learning. The conference represented an excellent opportunity to illustrate previous and current projects’ results on education and training with a focus on social inclusion, multiculturalism, e-learning, Science education and strategies for effective learning.

BRIGHTS visibility and valorization were ensured thanks to a combined effort by Federica Funghi and Sara Cella from Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi and Vicky Maratou from Hellenic Open University who presented the project by showing a specific project poster and giving a speech on the BRIGHTS MOOC. In particular, the BRIGHTS poster offered an overview of the entire project process, by presenting its objectives, the target groups, the main components and the topical steps. Conference participants expressed their interest and curiosity for digital storytelling and took informative materials to follow project’s developments. Mrs Maratou’s presentation was held during a session specifically focused on “e-Learning” where she had the opportunity to introduce the project and explain the MOOC structure and main features. She presented the online platform by showing the course syllabus, the learning outcomes divided per module and the main pages of the MOOC, especially the homepage, the forum, the unit pages with the educational material. Finally she presented evaluation results from the pre-testing and post-testing online survey highlighting learners’ expectation on the MOOC, mainly in Greece, as well as the positive impact reached after the pilot experimentation. The audience expressed their interest in registering and attending the BRIGHTS MOOC in case new opening of the course is going to be scheduled in the near future.

BRIGHTS presented at the International Online Conference “Tackling Multiple Dissemination”

Ioannis Messalas — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:44:30 +0000

On January 31^st, ALL DIGITAL participated in the International Online Conference of the project “Tackling multiple discrimination in Greece: Delivering equality by active exploration and enabling policy interventions” (link) which is being co-funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) Programme of the European Union. The Conference was organised by the Hellenic National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) in collaboration with the Hellenic Open University (BRIGHTS project partner from Greece).

During the 1^st day of the conference, Barbara Quarta, BRIGHTS project Coordinator from ALL DIGITAL (Belgium) presented the BRIGHTS project objectives, activities and results with a focus on the BRIGHTS MOOC “Addressing Global Citizenship Education through Digital Storytelling” which will be delivered in project countries (Belgium, Croatia, Greece and Italy) at the beginning of March 2018. More information about the MOOC can be found here!

During the Conference, around 90 participants, among them experts in the field of discrimination and stakeholders from the Education and Training sector, shared best practices and activities in the fight against (multiple) discrimination from different European countries and explored their potential transferability in the Greek contexts.

Check the agenda of the conference here!

Conference – Brights Project

BRIGHTS project at the 8th edition of the conference “The Future of Education” in Florence

BRIGHTS presented at the International Online Conference “Tackling Multiple Dissemination”