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STAFF MOBILITY FOR TRAINING
Digital skills have become an irreplaceable asset of working in higher education for both teachers and students. The Covid-19 pandemic only emphasised the relevance and necessity of these skills. In the field of international cooperation in higher education, these skills opened up a new world of opportunities for connecting teachers and students and for connecting institutions, cities, countries, and regions across borders.
This training course & seminar is intended for professionals in teaching on all levels of higher education, who have an interest in digital teaching practices in an international environment. It aims first at sharing examples of and experiences with innovative practices as well as knowledge and ideas about digital teaching in an international environment. Secondly it aims at providing a testing ground for participants: an opportunity to actively experiment with and experience the functioning of digital platforms, multi-functional spaces, and tools for digital teaching and online international cooperation.
This two-and-a-half-day program provides a mix of on location and -hybrid- and online activities. Participants are invited to bring their own practices and tools to the training course & seminar. The program has a flexible setup that allows for adding ‘pop-up’ workshop sessions on the spot: on location, online or hybrid. This includes space for initiatives of and options for colleagues who do not physically travel to Dubrovnik.
Enhancing digital teaching practices is, among others, presenting results from the WITEA-ID project; a transnational project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ program, that draws on existing and emerging digital and international mobility competencies and skills needs in higher education. WITEA-ID intends to contribute to the development of the infrastructure necessary for learning events with transnational and international participants on the side of students as well as teachers. Opening such events to the broader public due to digital transfer of the teaching sessions should enable more inclusivity of education overcoming geographical, health, and other obstacles and age barriers. See for more information https://witea-id.eu/.
Since the workshop is interactive it is advisable that participants have their own laptops or tablets.
Program
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
17.00 – 17.45 Welcoming reception of the training course and seminar
Nada Bruer Ljubišić, MA IUC Executive Secretary
Prof. Wieger Bakker, IUC deputy Director General
17.45 – 19.30 Dubrovnik historical centre city tour
Thursday, March 30, 2023
9.00 – 9.30 Doors open
9.30 – 10.00 Opening of the training course and seminar
Introduction of the WITEA-ID project and the training course & seminar program
Ing. MSc. Michaela Menšíková, PhD, project coordinator
Nada Bruer Ljubišić MA, IUC Executive Secretary
10.00 – 10.30 Virtual campus – University of Rijeka
Prof. Senka Maćešić, Vice-rector for digitalisation, University of Rijeka
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 11.45 Workshop 1 Utilizing tools, aps and gamification platform in K12 SCIENCE Education
Mr. Zourmpakis, University of Crete
12.00 – 12.30 A mobile European University: Charm EU
Drs. Jan Haarhuis, Utrecht University
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 Digitalizing skills and competences for successful international mobility – the case of the WITEA-ID e-Toolkit
Dr. Francois Lategan, Mendel University in Brno
14.30 – 15.00 Training session open access web-based toolkit:
Improving international mobility competencies in HE, assessing competence growth
Mendel-team
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 – 16.00 Workshop 2: Empathy map for VET school education
Boudewijn Grievink, MA, We are Katapult
16.00 – 16.30 Global Conversation programme
Presentation of a series of interdisciplinary virtual dialogues between students all
over the world, co-facilitated by international faculty teams
Dr. Emily Kraus, Assistant Director of special Programs, DePaul University
Friday, March 31, 2023
9.00 – 9.30 Doors open
9.30 – 10.00 Innovation at Educate-it: tools, added value, didactic and technical support for the teachers
Daan Fraanje, MA and Geertje Agricola, MSc, University of Utrecht
10.00 – 10.45 Workshop 3: Programming Environment that promote Critical Thinking for students – (MIT App Inventor)
Dr. Papadakis, Dr. Kalogiannakis & Dr Ampartzaki, University of Crete, Greece
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 11.45 Teacher development and Future Learning Spaces
Dr. Nanette Verhulst and Minke Brinkman; MSc, Educate-IT, University of Utrecht
11.45 – 12.30 Workshop 4: Digital teaching methodology from pre to post-Covid era; Building skills for the 21st century job market.
An overview of the changes that have occurred in digital teaching and learning based on recent studies, and presentation innovative tools and approaches in digital teaching.
Dr. Marios Paraskevupoulos, Novel Group, Luxembourg
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.00 Training session open access web-based toolkit:
Improving digital skills in HE
Mendel-team/ University of Crete
14.00 - 15.00 Round table: preparing students and teachers for working in an online environment
Moderators from Mendel University
15.00 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 16.00 Workshop 5: IUC mission with new tools for today and tomorrow
Nada Bruer Ljubišić, MA IUC Executive Secretary
Prof. Wieger Bakker, IUC deputy Director General
16.00 – 16.30 Wrapping up: The future of digital internationalization in HE
The outcomes and the impact of the training course and seminar
Accommodation options can be found in the Attached Documents!
Erasmus+ mobility agreement for STAFF TRAINING can be found HERE!
For all questions please contact the IUC Secretariat at iuc@iuc.hr.
Google application form!