The SEIT Lab participated in the European Researcher Night, where ELSE project was disseminated. You can see some screenshots from the virtual environment below:
The SEIT Lab participated in the European Researcher Night, where ELSE project was disseminated. You can see some screenshots from the virtual environment below:
The SEIT Lab participated in the European Researcher Night, where Digi-Sporting was disseminated. You can check the presentation created by the coordinator (UCLM) here: Digisport_Presentation
The SEIT Lab participated in the European Researcher Night, where Digi-Sporting was disseminated. You can check the presentation created by the coordinator (UCLM) here: Digisport_Presentation
The project “Participation and Recreation through Inclusive Martial Arts Education and E-Learning” (acronym “PRIMAE”), approved by the Erasmus Plus National Agency in the UK as part of the program Erasmus Plus …
The project “Participation and Recreation through Inclusive Martial Arts Education and E-Learning” (acronym “PRIMAE”), approved by the Erasmus Plus National Agency in the UK as part of the program Erasmus Plus KA2 Strategic Partnerships for Adult Education as action n.2019-1-UK01-KA204-061975, has reached the middle of its development path and it is time to produce the appropriate interim report of activities. The European initiative, well coordinated by Ray Sweeney, head of Ikkaido Ltd (a registered charity based in Oxford), aims to develop the first platform to provide online education and training in the martial arts sector, providing an e-learning tool accessible to all, to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities through the aforementioned sport. A respectable partnership is working on the project which, in addition to the English Ikkaido Ltd, includes the following partners: Areadne Oe (Greece), EURO-NET and Futuro Digitale (Italy), Ikkaido Inclusive Martial Arts (Ireland), Stockholm Vastra Idrottsforening For Funktionsnedsatta (Sweden), University Of Cyprus (Cyprus) and Aux Couleurs Du Deba (France).
The project fits perfectly into the European Commission’s <<Europe 2020>> strategy for inclusive, smart, sustainable and active growth which sets the goal of relieving at least 20 million European citizens from poverty and social exclusion and, at the same time, increasing the employment of the population aged between 20 and 64 to 75%. The aim of the project is, in fact, to develop an innovative and useful training curriculum that will include modules that will range from martial arts coaching for adults and children to the use of medicines in sport, from the approach to disabilities to the protection and inclusion of vulnerable children and adults.
In the first year of activity, the partners worked hardly to develop the basis of the various intellectual products, collecting many good sectoral inclusion practices, placing the emphasis on the development of a necessary pedagogical plan, developing an e-learning platform where it will be possible to participate to online courses and a respectable training curriculum.
The objectives that the project wants to achieve – underlined Ray Sweneey, coordinator of the entire project – are very ambitious and that is why we are working hardly, despite all the problems that the covid-19 pandemic has created in the various partner countries, in order to develop a project to be proud of and which can be classified at the end of the activities as a good practice in the Erasmus Plus program because it will have allowed many people with disabilities to engage in physical activity and sport, opening up, at the same time, new job opportunities in the martial arts world. The ultimate goal of the partnership is that the project could be officially recognized by the various countries and by the CEN (European Committee for Normalisation): it would be an exceptional result to which all the Partners are dedicating themselves with great passion and that we are sure to to be able to obtain.
The European initiative, which can also be followed on social media thanks to a specific Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/IkkaidoPrimae, started in September 2019 and will end if there will be no extensions due to the pandemic, by February 2022.
We were very happy to present our accepted short paper and poster regarding the ELSE Erasmus+ Project, at the Fourteenth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020). The …
The second newsletter of our Digi-Sporting Erasmus+ project is now published. You can check it out here: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/seit/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/DIGI-SPORTING-2nd-NL.html
The second newsletter of our Digi-Sporting Erasmus+ project is now published.
You can check it out here:
http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/seit/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/DIGI-SPORTING-2nd-NL.html
European Union Digital Education Framework and Companion Evaluation Toolkit Created to act as a quality standard, the interactive European Union Digital Education Framework and Companion Evaluation Toolkit (EU-DEF) was adopted to …
European Union Digital Education Framework and Companion Evaluation Toolkit
Created to act as a quality standard, the interactive European Union Digital Education Framework and Companion Evaluation Toolkit (EU-DEF) was adopted to guide the design, delivery and evaluation of education programmes, study units, sessions courses, and modules (http://project-digit.eu/index.php/digital-education-quality-standards/). The EU-DEF proposes five critical dimensions of an effective online product or event—structure, community, content, delivery and support – required to elicit five levels of outcomes, the pinnacle of which is organizational change.
The variables and sub-variables in the framework were identified from an extensive review of literature from existing digital education frameworks and models (link to table) and highlight what an educator should consider when designing, delivering and evaluation effective digital education.
Open the link and click on the words in the framework to access the variables and sub-variables definitions:Â http://project-digit.eu/index.php/digital-education-quality-standards/
ELSE Erasmus+Â Project aims to design and disseminate a strategy and appropriate ICT tools to achieve the fundamental European goal of redesigning Higher Education, facilitating the application of Bologna principles across Europe. …
ELSE Erasmus+Â Project aims to design and disseminate a strategy and appropriate ICT tools to achieve the fundamental European goal of redesigning Higher Education, facilitating the application of Bologna principles across Europe.
Two fundamental principles of Bologna remain unrealised: 1. Students continue to be peripheral to the process of knowledge co-construction, and 2. the potential for true pedagogical innovation through new technologies that can enhance the learning experience is underexplored.
ELSE aims to design an innovative learning environment based on learner-centred pedagogies, which can activate students’ learning process through problem-solving, learning-by-doing, gamification, and digital information research. The Flipped Classroom paradigm is used where homework activities are moved from after the class to before the class, students have a first touch with the subject at home, and practice, extra material and questions are conducted later during the class.
Three tools were developed in the context of the project:
– E-Voli is a video-tagging tool that enables teachers to upload their videos and provide links to their students to access and view them before going to the class. Each student can add tags to specific time points of the video, demonstrating their comprehension or not of the content, questions or remarks. The teachers can then view a summarised preview of their students’ tags, being able to understand which parts of the course material need further elaboration within the classroom and which parts can be skipped, being in this way in line with the flipped classroom methodology.
– E-Core is a Serious-Game building platform, allowing teachers to create and develop their scenarios based on the course they are teaching. The students are then requested to play the game and to answer multiple-choice questions. When they reach the end of the game, the students can review their success percentage for the game, being able to try it again and again to improve their scores, and henceforth their comprehension of the specific subject.
– E-Dash: Flipping Moodle
The University of Cyprus team was in charge of developing a tool aiming at harmonizing Moodle Learning Environment with the concept of the flipped classroom.
     
The E-Dash tool offers combined and mixed learning data, including grades, comments, questions and more for each student. These data assist teachers to gain an overall picture of their students’ performance, grades, and whether the students have tried the various activities or not.
For a teacher, a board combining the data of all students of a specific course, and a separate personalized board for each student of the course are offered. For students, their learning data for each enrolled course are presented separately.
All learning activities are categorized based on: (i) whether the activity is “mandatory”, “optional” or “recommended”, and (ii) whether the activity is used as “flipping”, “during” (the class), or “after” (the class). By selecting an activity, teachers and students have access to a visual aggregated overview of the accomplishments, in different formats depending on the data produced by each activity/tool.
Please contact us if you are interested in using any of the above tools.
NEWS
The ELSE e-learning environment was recently presented to teachers across Europe
through a workshop. The SEIT Lab participated in the Intensive Study Program, held in Politecnico di Milano between 3-7 February 2020. Read more here!
A Research Project paper authored by the SEIT Lab team was accepted at RCIS’20 conference. Check it here!Â
The first newsletter of our Digi-Sporting Erasmus+ project is now published. You can read it here:Â http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/seit/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DIGI-SPORTING-Newsletter.html
The first newsletter of our Digi-Sporting Erasmus+ project is now published. You can read it here:Â http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/seit/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DIGI-SPORTING-Newsletter.html
The European project Digi-Sporting: A new step towards digital transformation through sports science (2019-1-ES01-KA203-065505) held its second Translational Project Meeting, between all the partners. Due to the Corona-Virus world crisis, the …
ICD-4TVET Interactive Curriculum Development for Technical Vocational Education and Training Start: 01-09-2019 – End: 30-06-2022 Project Reference:Â 2019-1-EL01-KA202-063019 SEIT Research Laboratory (Software Engineering and Internet Technologies Laboratory) of the Computer Science department …
Start: 01-09-2019 – End: 30-06-2022
Project Reference:Â 2019-1-EL01-KA202-063019
SEIT Research Laboratory (Software Engineering and Internet Technologies Laboratory) of the Computer Science department of the University of Cyprus participates in the ICD-4TVET project, started in September 2019, with a duration of 34 months.
ICD-4TVET is funded through the Erasmus + KA202 – Strategic Partnerships for Vocational Education and Training Call 2019.
The ICD-4TVET project’s main objective is to develop an open innovation concept and an approach to optimize and accelerate the process of creating curricula in the technical VET sector. This practical contribution is expected to be achieved by suggesting an Interactive Methodology for VET Curricula development able to incorporate market trends/needs, and respond to them in a fairly limited amount of time. This will be implemented through a digital platform with the appropriate tools to modify the curricula automatically. The digital platform developed in the context of the project will enable the labour market actors to define their needs as they occur on the basis of ESCO, so the other stakeholders–ranging from national authorities to individual VET schools–can adapt swiftly to these needs with the creation of adequate, flexible curricula and training programs.
The consortium for this project is made up of six organizations that will ensure the quality of the project in all its phases.
The partnership includes the following organizations:
– INSTITOUTO EKPEDEFTIKIS POLITIKIS (Coordinator), Greece
– Fundacja Rozwoju Aktywnosci Miedzynarodowej i Edukacyjnej – FRAME, Poland
– PANEPISTIMIO AIGAIOU, Greece
– UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS, Cyprus
– PEMU MUANYAGIPARI ZARTKORUEN MUKODORESZVENYTARSA SAG, Hungary
– bit Schulungscenter GmbH, Austria
You can find more information in the Erasmus+ Website of the project:
https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/projects/eplus-project-details/#project/2019-1-EL01-KA202-063019
PRIMAE Participation and Recreation through Inclusive Martial Arts Education and E-Learning Start: 01-09-2019 – End: 28-02-2022 Project Reference: 2019-1-UK01-KA204-061975 SEIT Research Laboratory (Software Engineering and Internet Technologies Laboratory) of the Computer …
Start: 01-09-2019 – End: 28-02-2022
Project Reference: 2019-1-UK01-KA204-061975
SEIT Research Laboratory (Software Engineering and Internet Technologies Laboratory) of the Computer Science department of the University of Cyprus participates in the PRIMAE project, started in September 2019, with a duration of 30 months.
PRIMAE is funded through the Erasmus + KA204 – Strategic Partnerships for Adult Education Call 2019.
The overarching ambition for the impact of the project is to increase levels of engagement in inclusive coach education, especially for persons with a disability in Europe. A secondary effect will be to increase physical activity among persons with a disability in Europe through improving the knowledge, skills, and understanding of martial arts.
An Inclusive eLearning Best Practice report, Inclusive Curriculum, Inclusive Pedagogical Plan, and Inclusive eLearning course in physical activity (martial arts) and education on an eLearning platform will be created using the ADDIE methodology to provide learners with and without a disability with the specific opportunity to gain the following accredited and regulated Awards and Certificates on the European Qualification Framework
The consortium for this project is made up of eight organizations that will ensure the quality of the project in all its phases.
The partnership includes the following organizations:
– IKKAIDO LTDÂ (Coordinator), UK
– Areadne OE, Greece
– FUTURO DIGITALE, Italy
– EURO-NET, Italy
–Â Ikkaido Inclusive Martial Arts, Ireland
– Stockholm Vastra, Sweden
– UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS, Cyprus
– AUX COULEURS DU DEBA, France
You can find more information in the Erasmus+ Website of the project:
https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/projects/eplus-project-details/#project/2019-1-UK01-KA204-061975
SEIT Research Laboratory (Software Engineering and Internet Technologies Laboratory) of the Computer Science department of the University of Cyprus participates in “TOOLS: Technologically enhanced online opportunities for language learning in inclusive education” …
SEIT Lab participated in the Intensive Study Program, held for ELSE Project, in Politecnico di Milano between 3-7 February 2020. Our team presented a methodology for “Flipping Moodle”, in the context …
SEIT Research Laboratory (Software Engineering and Internet Technologies Laboratory) of the Computer Science department of the University of Cyprus participates in the Digi-Sporting project, started in September 2019, with a duration …
SEIT Research Laboratory (Software Engineering and Internet Technologies Laboratory) of the Computer Science department of the University of Cyprus participates in the Digi-Sporting project, started in September 2019, with a duration of 30 months.
Digi-Sporting funded through the Erasmus + KA203 – Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education Call 2019, aims to develop a guide of good practices for the effective incorporation of technology in sports clubs and academies, as well as the creation of a competitive profile of Sports Technologist and a postgraduate training package.
The consortium for this project is made up of nine organizations that will ensure the quality of the project in all its phases, assuming roles in the analysis of the environment, fieldwork, training, technological development or dissemination of the activities.
The partnership includes the following organizations:
– ENAS, Ireland
– GaragErasmus Foundation, Italy
– ICSS Insight, Italy
– Italian National Olympic Committee, Italy
– ONECO, Spain
– The University of Castilla-La Mancha, IGOID Group (Coordinator), Spain
– University of Cyprus, Cyprus
– The University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal
– Wiener Sport-Club, Austria
You can find more information in the Erasmus+ Website of the project:
https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/projects/eplus-project-details/#project/2019-1-ES01-KA203-065505
