Training courses for teachers in Universities for Nurturing innovative Educative practices in Distance and blended learning based on self regulation

TUNED

The COVID-19 tsunami had affected the traditional practices of learning and teaching, changing in a radical way the relation between teacher and student mediated by online environment. Starting from this background, TUNED project provides a training for HEI educators to improve teaching skills focusing on a collaborative learning approach and self-regulation of learning in online/blended contexts.

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Project duration

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Other International

Project funder

Erasmus+

Funding amount

400 000 EUR

Project coordinator

University of Foggia

Unit and faculty

Learning and Learning Processes Research Unit
Faculty of Education and Psychology

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Project description

TUNED main aim is to provide innovative teaching skills for professors and lecturers about the application of self-regulated learning (SRL) and motivation in distance and blended learning/teaching. Learning and Educational Technology Research Lab is a part of the consortium, contributing to applying the theoretical framework of SRL in the project context.

The general project objectives are: 1. Promoting an innovative short training course for professors and lecturers in HEIs, 2. Creating a structured cooperation between HEIs to develop a collaborative course, 3. Implementing a micro-credential system to validate the learning outcomes, and 4. Developing a MOOC for HEI teachers including practical, user-centred activities in the form of serious games.

Project partners:

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FOGGIA (Italy): Coodinator

OULUN YLIOPISTO (Finland) 

TECHNOLOGIKO PANEPISTIMIO KYPROU (Cyprus)

VERENIGING VAN EUROPEAN DISTANCE TEACHING UNIVERSITIES (the Netherlands) 

SMARTED SRL (Italy)

C2 srl (Italy)

Project results

The TUNED project will deliver four project results: 1. A pedagogical framework on collaborative and self-regulation learning (SRL) in a blended and online learning (PR1) 2. An innovative short-training course for professors and lectures in HEIs (PR2) 3. A serious game (PR3) 4. Guidelines for the replicability of the TUNED approach in other HEIs (PR4).

The project brings a twofold cascade effect: - From one side to the organizations that could involve
new participants, enlarging the impact of the outcomes - From the other side, providing new tools to the professors in HEIs and teachers’ trainers that will bring a multiplicative impact on the teachers providing a benefit to the students both in academies and schools.