Presentation of the ERASMUS+ DISK Project - Digital Immigrants Survival Toolkit at OEW22 8 March 2022

1. Digital Immigrants
Survival Toolkit
(DISK) Webinar
Ebba Ossiannilsson. Professor, Dr. Sweden
Ossiannilsson Quality in Open Online
Learning (QOOL) Consulrancy

2. ERASMUS+ project
Digital Immigrants
Survival Toolkit
(DISK) (2019-2022)
Aim:
To develop adults' lack of digital
competencies with a special focus on
so-called "digital immigrants," i.e.,
people who are disadvantaged in
society due to a lack of digital skills DC
and are therefore among the less
educated DC) and enable them to
take an active role in the digital
society.

3. Aim for this session 8 March 2022 OEW22
To discuss how to bridge the
digital divide for this target
group and what it takes to
become an active citizen in
an increasingly digital society.
This target group, in
particular, is often left behind
because they often lack the
digital skills to be included,
participate and be part of a
democratic society.

4. • The consortium consists of 5 partners(3 adult
education organisations, one university, and a
specialist in course quality & Open Educational
resources OER) with complementary skills,
experiences and approach to adult education.
• The applicant is the University of Porto that will
focus on adults with lower levels of education and
create opportunities for their further education,
inclusion and full participation as European Citizens
and for their survival in a digitalized world. 3 Adult
Training organisations are well distributed in Europe
and have complementary approaches to Adult
Education: Edrase, GR is well-experienced in trainings
on remote places, EFQBL, AT has a specific focus on
older people while Training 2000, IT is a professional
AE training organization providing training to all ages
of adults. Ossiannilsson Quality in Open Online
Learning (QOOL) Consultancy is a Swedish
organization specialized on quality in trainings and the
publishing as OER.

6. Objectives To create, implement and evaluate 15 modules covering
different specific topics from the everyday life of digital
immigrants as a "Digital Immigrants Survival Kit" (DISK)
To use Flipped Learning 3.0 as a training approach,
To create an innovative self-assessment tool based on
competency-based self-assessment mandalas
To create a transferability and implementation guide
To flexibly transfer the results and outcomes to other
European countries and finally
To publish the modules of the DISK toolkit as Open
Educational Resources (OER).

7. • The development of the content uses
• The e-Xcellence framework (available
from the EADTU, European Association of
Distance Teaching Universities
https://eadtu.eu and will be adapted to
Adult Education).
The development of content, the various
modules, and finally of the available
courses will follow the recommendations
given by the European Association of
Distance Teaching Universities.
• The handbook for “Flipped Adult
Education” (see below) including a
heutagogical approach to training.
• Challenged-based learning approach
and authentic learning strategies
• Multimedia and intensive training
means
• Individualized training paths with
tailored content
•

8. The developed modules are (title and connected competence)
1.Video production & use of video
2.Images
3.Techniques for image creating
These modules focus on Create content, store, share data, use of content
4.Images for documentation of specific situations (Create content, store, share data, use)
5.Dealing with authorities and government (Know about governmental services, social insurance, taxes, digital
signature, other online services)
6.Social contact (Content creation: To create and edit digital content, To improve and integrate information and content
into an existing body of knowledge while understanding how copyright and licences are to be applied. Social inclusion)
7.Digital Communication (Safety: To protect devices, content, personal data and privacy in digital environments)
8.Use booking, selling, and other platforms (Information and data literacy, Safety, Social inclusion)
9.Searching Information (Information and data literacy)
10.Digital help for daily problems (o articulate information needs, to locate and retrieve digital data, information and
content. To judge the relevance of the source and its content)
11.Privacy and device safety (Safety, digital identity)
12.Use of web tools (To use digital tools to innovate processes and products)
13.Payment using the internet (Safety: To protect devices, content, personal data and privacy in digital environments.)
14.Finding free books; Google Maps (To articulate information needs, to locate and retrieve digital data,)
15.Learning activities and options like OER & MOOCs (To articulate information needs, to locate and retrieve digital
data, information, and content)

11. IO 4 OER Development
The OERs are developed out of the
implemented and evaluated modules.
OERs are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
license.
Each developed module of the “Survival
Kit” is documented in a short guide
including
•The training material itself
•All support materials (like trainees’ and
trainers’ instructions)
•Hints for trainers (summary of the
lessons learned sessions)
•The ready-to-use Moodle course
•The templates for the self-evaluation
mandalas

13. My Footprints
www.i4quality.se
Ebba.Ossiannilsson@gmail.com
info@i4quality.se
THANK YOU!
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