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Echoes Toolkit
Tools and methods for to the specific needs of trainers
The ECHOES Toolkit is intended to be a useful resource of practical information for the direct implementation of innovative methods in VET projects delivered through virtual classrooms and extended to unemployed people.
It will contain a set of practical tools and methods adapted to the specific needs of trainers, tutors and staff involved in online virtual training/mentoring processes. It will be structured to reflect the DigComp, the European Digital Competence Framework, and its competence levels, adapted to the specificities of individual countries.
The Toolkit aims to generate a positive impact at systemic level by introducing a comprehensive set of tools for the proper management of virtual training / VET tutoring courses for unemployed people specific to the type of competences in question – e.g. communication, organisation, evaluation of results, etc.
Echoes Toolkit Competence Areas
AREA 01
Professional Engagement
«AREA 01. Professional Engagement» Description
The Professional Engagement area is focus on the educators’ ability to use digital technologies not only to enhance teaching, but also for their professional interactions with colleagues, learners, members of the Educational Community and other interested parties, building the digital competence for their individual professional development and for the collective good and continuous innovation in the organisation and the teaching profession.
This area is composed by different subareas, focus on specific skills and competences education professionals should work on to build their ability using digital technologies for communication, collaboration and professional development.
Based on the real needs experienced by VET professionals in the framework of the ECHOES project, the following sub-areas for improvement have been identified. For this purpose, in the ECHOES Toolkit for Extended Classrooms for Higher Opportunities Enhancing Skills you will find a series of tools and tricks for their application in this journey of professional, digital and educational development.
A01.1 How to get yourself and your organization engaged into Digital Online Learning, stay connected and access shared content any time to learn, plan, and innovate?
Tool 01.1.1 Microsoft Teams
Tool 01 01.1.2 ClickUp
Tool 01.1.3 Zoom
Tool 01.1.4 Google Meet
Tool 01.1.5 Rocket.Chat
Tool 01.1.6 CISCO Webex Team
Tool 0.1.1.7 Brosix
Tool 0.1.1.8 Pumble
Tool 01.1.9 Chanty
A01.2 How to secure access to your content Store, share and collaborate on files and folders?
Tool 01.2.1 Google Drive
Tool 01.2.2 Microsoft OneDrive
Tool 01.2.3 Dropbox
Tool 01.2.4 Sync
Tool 01.2.5 Amazon Drive
A01.3 How to drive your colleagues to be engaged with Digital Online Learning?
Tool 01.3.1 Digital Online Learning
Tool 01.3.2 e-Learning
Tool 01.3.3 Mobile Learning
Tool 01.3.4 Microlearning
AREA 02
Digital Resources
«AREA 02. Digital Resources» Description
The Digital Resources area is focus on the educators’ ability to come to terms with this variety, to effectively identify resources that best fit their learning objectives, learner group and teaching style, to structure the wealth of materials, establish connections and to modify, add on to and develop themselves digital resources to support their teaching.
This area is composed by different subareas, focus on specific skills and competences education professionals should work on to build their ability to be aware of how to responsibly use and manage digital content, respect copyright rules when using, modifying and sharing resources, and protect sensitive content and data, such as digital exams or students’ grades.
Based on the real needs experienced by VET professionals in the framework of the ECHOES project, the following sub-areas for improvement have been identified. For this purpose, in the ECHOES Toolkit for Extended Classrooms for Higher Opportunities Enhancing Skills you will find a series of tools and tricks for their application in this journey of designing, creating and sharing digital educational contents.
A02.1 How to design your Digital Online Courses or Lessons?
Tool 02.1.1 ADDIE MODEL
Tool 02.1.2 SAM MODEL
A02.2 How to choose the right framework and create your own designs for Digital Online Courses or Lessons?
Tool 02.2.1 Canva
Tool 02.2.2 Genially
Tool 02.2.3 edpuzzle
Tool 02.2.4 Infogram
AREA 03
Teaching and Learning
«AREA 03. Teaching and Learning» Description
The Teaching and Learning area is focus on the educators’ ability to create the specific digital competence lies in effectively orchestrating the use of digital technologies in the different phases and settings of the learning process, whatever the pedagogic strategy or approach is chosen.
This area is composed by different subareas, focus on specific skills and competences education professionals should work on to build their ability to use digital technologies and services to enhance the interaction with learners, individually and collectively, within and outside the learning session.
Based on the real needs experienced by VET professionals in the framework of the ECHOES project, the following sub-area for improvement has been identified. For this purpose, in the ECHOES Toolkit for Extended Classrooms for Higher Opportunities Enhancing Skills you will find a series of tools and tricks for their application in this journey of designing, planning and implementing the use of digital technologies in the different stages of the learning process.
A03.1 How to ensure guidance, interact with students, collaborate and get feedbacks from them while delivering Digital Online Courses or Lessons?
T 03.1.1: Miro
T 03.1.2: Flip
T 03.1.3: Kialo
AREA 04
Assessment
«AREA 04. Assessment» Description
The Assessment area is focus on the educators’ ability to analyse and interpret the wide range of data available on each individual learner’s learning behaviour and use it to help make decisions, consider how digital technologies can enhance existing assessment strategies and create or facilitate innovative assessment approaches.
This area is composed by different subareas, focus on specific skills and competences education professionals should work on to build their ability adapting teaching strategies and to provide targeted support, based on the evidence generated by the digital technologies used and enabling learners and parents to understand the evidence provided by digital technologies and use it for decision-making.
Based on the real needs experienced by VET professionals in the framework of the ECHOES project, the following sub-area for improvement has been identified. For this purpose, in the ECHOES Toolkit for Extended Classrooms for Higher Opportunities Enhancing Skills you will find a series of tools and tricks for their application in this journey using digital technologies to provide targeted and timely feedback to learners.
A04.1 How to get feedback, planning assessment and analysing evidence of students’ learning?
Tool 04.1.1 Google Classroom
Tool 04.1.2 TopWorkSheets
Tool 04.1.3 Educational Open Badges
Tool 04.1.4 Fireflies
Tool 04.1.5 tl;dv
Tool 04.1.6 Trelson Assessment
AREA 05
Empowering Learners
«AREA 05. Empowering Learners» Description
The Empowering Learners area is focus on the educators’ ability to use digital technologies for supporting learner-centred pedagogic strategies and boosting the active involvement of learners in the learning process and their ownership of it, facilitating learners’ active engagement, experimenting with different options or solutions, understanding connections, coming up with creative solutions or creating an artefact and reflecting on it.
This area is composed by different subareas, focus on specific skills and competences education professionals should work on to build their ability to use digital technologies within pedagogic strategies that foster learners’ transversal skills, deep thinking and creative expression, opening up learning to new, real-world contexts, which involve learners themselves in hands-on activities, scientific investigation or complex problem solving, or in other ways increase learners’ active involvement in complex subject matters.
Based on the real needs experienced by VET professionals in the framework of the ECHOES project, the following sub-area for improvement has been identified. For this purpose, in the ECHOES Toolkit for Extended Classrooms for Higher Opportunities Enhancing Skills you will find a series of tools and tricks for their application in this journey of using digital technologies to foster learners’ active and creative engagement with a subject matter.
A05.1 How to actively engage learners while delivering Digital Online Courses or Lessons?
Tool 05.1.1 Kahoot
Tool 05.1.2 Openboard
Tool 05.1.3 Plickers
AREA 06
Facilitating Learners’ Digital Competence
«AREA 06. Facilitating Learners’ Digital Competence» Description
The Empowering Learners area is focused on the educators’ ability to facilitate learners’ digital competence as an integral part of their own digital competence.
This area is composed by different subareas, focus on specific skills and competences education professionals should work on to build their ability to motivate learners in articulating information needs, finding information and resources in digital environments, effectively and responsibly using digital technologies for communication, collaboration and civic participation, expressing themselves through digital means and solving technical problems, or to transfer technological knowledge creatively to new situations.
Based on the real needs experienced by VET professionals in the framework of the ECHOES project, the following sub-area for improvement has been identified. For this purpose, in the ECHOES Toolkit for Extended Classrooms for Higher Opportunities Enhancing Skills you will find a series of tools and tricks for their application in this journey of incorporate learning activities, assignments and assessments which require learners to express themselves through digital means, and to modify and create digital content in different formats.
A06.1 How to involve learners into digital content creation to facilitate acquisition of new digital competences?
Tool 06.1.1 Flipped Classroom Google
Tool 06.1.2 Trello
Tool 06.1.3 Wrike
Tool 06.1.4 Invideo
Tool 06.1.5 Lumen5
