DISK-Project published in OER-Commons

The DISK-Project Partners created their own group in the OER-Commons Platform. Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse at no cost, and without needing to ask permission. Unlike copyrighted resources, OER have been authored or created by an individual or organization that chooses to retain few, Read More …

Role of Multimedia in the Learning Process

Richard E. Mayer (2002): Cognitive Theory and the Design of Multimedia Instruction: An Example of the Two-Way Street Between Cognition and Instruction The multimedia-based approach uses visual learning (pictures, written text, animations, and videos) and verbal learning (spoken narration) as discrete channels for delivering content. This way to teach differs completely from the traditional frontal Read More …

La seconda newsletter del progetto DISK è disponibile!

DISK- Strumenti di sopravvivenza per immigrati digitali  Seconda newsletter Giugno 2022 Per i partner del progetto DISK – Digital Immigrant Survival Kit,  questi ultimi due anni sono serviti per finalizzare i 15 moduli di formazione pensati per sviluppare le competenze digitali di chi ha scarsa familiarità con le tecnologie e Internet. I moduli seguono lo Read More …

Different Ages & Digital Competencies

The generation 65+ and digital competencies This generation has undoubtedly not grown up with digitization. Nevertheless, the generation 65+ has to face the modern world with digital technology. Filling up with a debit card at a fuel terminal is now taken for granted, as is communication with smartphones. All these technological achievements of recent years Read More …

H5P interactive video and educational animation

In the DISK training course, we partners tried to offer different interactive elements to stimulate and optimize the learning process of course participants. Among the H5p applications, interactive presentations allow educators to add many useful involving learning elements and insights. The same is valid for H5P interactive video.  In several DISK modules, interactive presentations were Read More …

Backward Design for the Development of DISK Course Modules

If you create a new course, it is crucial how to design. All preparation work should have been done: You know the expected learning outcomes; you know the target group and all other necessary parameters. Some months ago, I had an interesting conversation with a schoolteacher about the planning and implementation of lessons. Case study Read More …

DISK project presentation day

On Thursday, April 14th, 2022, the presentation day of the Erasmus+ project „Digital Immigrants Survival Kit“ performed by the Greek project partner EDRASE  took place. The meeting took place in the amphitheatre of EKFE Egaleo. 35 students of the public Institute of Vocational Training (IEK) Egaleo (of the department „IT Application Technicians„) attended the event. Read More …

DISK & Flipped Learning 3.0

The DISK training course is one major outcomes of this ERASMUS+ Project. The training course consists of modules focusing on specific subjects. The project team identified these subjects with a survey (which was conducted in 8 different European countries in the target group of adults and especially older adults). Among the innovations of this project, Read More …

The DISK project at school in Urbino (Italy)

Digital Immigrants meet Digital Natives The Erasmus+ project DISK- Digital Immigrants Survival Kit was presented on Friday, May 13, 2022 at the Istituto Tecnico Industriale-ITIS “Enrico Mattei” in Urbino (Italy). Being in a school context, allowed Training 2000 to explore the transferability potential of the project and test the validate some topics of major interest Read More …