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Broadening the Landscape of Adult Informal Learning with Digital Film Making
Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Learning today takes place in a context of new interactions between formal and informal learning, the changing role of trainers, the impact of social media, and the need to actively involve the learners in the design of learning activities.The aim project is to enhance the international dimension of education by helping adult education providers to overcome the gap between traditional eLearning provision with digitalised training materials and the design, content and structure of Open Educational Resources (OERs) and MOOCs. So far we have been offering eLearning with Learning Management Systems (uch as Moodle with digital training materials and trainer webinars. As more and more learners use OERs with their mobile devices such as smart phones or tablets, the learning resources must be adapted to the style and structure of OERs with the typical short films and personal video introductions.The two project objectives are1) To train staff of Skills International GmbH, Austria to enhance their digital skills for using film cameras and editing tools;2) To increase the capacity to operate at EU and international level by producing MOOCs and OERs with digital films and story telling for disadvantaged learners, especially asylum seekers for language learning and citizenship and to integrate them actively into the co-creation of digital content.Broadening the Landscape of Adult Informal Learning with Digital Film Making is an Erasmus+ KA1 mobility project which aims at enhancing learning mobility of individuals by means of mobility of staff engaged in adult education. Two staff members of Skills International GmbH, Austria (trainer and management staff) will take part in the staff training in London in order to enhance their competences in digital film making for educational collaborative learning approaches.The 6-days staff training will be provided by the partner Joanna Pinewood Education Ltd. from London, UK. JPE is an expert in informal training delivery and has a long experience in film making, editing and targeted upload in the social media. The method of the structured staff training is based on a joyful hands-on collaborative learning approach. The project results will be disseminated widely on national, European and international scale to adult education institutions, trainers, organisations who take care for asylum seekers and more generally to stakeholders interested in ICT-based adult literacy teaching and learning. Dissemination will be based on demonstrating best practice on how to use digital film making for widening the international training offer. The newly gained know-how will first of all be integrated into the provision of digital learning resources for German language and citizenship courses for asylum seekers and migrants in Austria. After an introduction phase by the staff and trainers, the focus is to demonstrate with digital films how smart phones can be used by the learners themselves for language learning. This will open up education especially to asylum seekers in the early phases (new arrivals), but also to migrants who require access to free digital online resources. ‘Learning to help yourself’ will be the motto to demonstrate how disadvantaged learners can use the smart phone to learn but also to communicate with their environment in a variety of languages.

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