Leading Elderly and Adult Development -LAB

Grundtvig Project502057-LLP-1-2009-1-IT-GRUNDTVIG-GMP

Associated partners:

Who we are: Project partnershipWho we are: Project partnership

Hellenic Regional

Development Centre

Priority 2: Improving the quality, attractiveness of and access to adult education

motivating individual learners to commit to learning, including through guidance services and partnerships with enterprises; reinforcing digital competences and using ICT to widen access to adult learning; improving the identification of learning needs of teachers, trainers and other staff; developing joint approaches to improve quality in qualifications of teachers, tutors and other staff in adult education, and to adapt their training in consequence.

Operational objectives:(b) to improve the quality and to increase the volume of cooperation betweenorganisations involved in adult education throughout Europe;(d) to facilitate the development of innovative practices in adult education and theirtransfer, including from a participating country to others;(e) to support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services, pedagogies andpractice for lifelong learning;(f) to improve pedagogical approaches and the management of adult educationorganisations.

(a) to respond to the educational challenge of an ageing population in Europe;(b) to help provide adults with pathways to improving their knowledge and competences.

Specific objectives:

Intermediate: Institutes and organisms which offer Lifelong Learning pathways Teachers/trainers working in these organisations.Adults in guidance pathways

Final: Adult learners(adult and elderly people)

Target groupsTarget groups

Project considers as target 4 groups of a dozen teachers and trainers from different Adult Education Centres (IT, F, D, ES). LEADLAB results address properly to their needs, suggesting the introduction of new models of pedagogic approach.

LEADLAB intends to create an integration between the different models of personalization of learning in Adult Education and promoting a model of self-directed learning in training and guidance pathways, empowering adult trainers’ competences.

Principal activities:•the investigation of status artis of personalization and self-learning techniques in reference contexts •the editing of best practices•the mapping of necessaries competences for the self-learning trainer.

LEADLAB will provide to elaborate the modeling and the experimentation of the guidelines emerged from the action-research activities.

Project ideaProject idea

Duration: 24 monthsDuration: 24 months

AimsAims

An andragogic paradigm based on personalization and self-learning approaches allows to develop NVEA paths that improve adult partecipation in Lifelong Learning and to promote successful learning outcomes.

LEADLAB aims to support european NVEA system by developing a new andragogic approach integrating personalization and self-learning methodologies on the basis of the model and practices developed and applied in the partner countries;

it also aims to introduce a new professional, a teacher/trainer in possession of the strategic competences to guide and scaffold adult learners, the "Learning Personalization Trainer" (LPT).

An andragogic paradigm based on personalization and self-learning approaches allows to develop NVEA paths that improve adult partecipation in Lifelong Learning and to promote successful learning outcomes.

LEADLAB aims to support european NVEA system by developing a new andragogic approach integrating personalization and self-learning methodologies on the basis of the model and practices developed and applied in the partner countries;

it also aims to introduce a new professional, a teacher/trainer in possession of the strategic competences to guide and scaffold adult learners, the "Learning Personalization Trainer" (LPT).

Expected resultsExpected results

to identify a shared definition of "personalization" in education;

to gather the european best practices about personalization, self-learning and other successful strategies in adult education;

to develop an andragogic integrated NVAE model, the LEADLAB model;

to produce the Guidelines for the application of the model;

to define the competences of the LPT;

to develop and test an experimental course to train the LPT;

to validate the effectiveness and the efficiency of the model and the course;

to create local nets and disseminate the results of the project.

The adoption of the outputs of the project by:

Partners

Key actors of the local nets

Experts

Adult education institutions

Policy makers of the involved countries

Expected impactExpected impact

With the perspective of the improvement of the quality of european NVEA system.

Innovative featuresInnovative features

New opportunities in innovation of approaches, methodologies and tools. The experience of the involved countries will add value to the project activities through the gathering and valorization of the best practices.

to develop a new breed of professional the LPT - Learning Personalization Trainer, a profile that is complementary to the LEADLAB integrated model, a teacher/trainer with strategic competences to lead a scaffold adult learners in LEAD-LAB approach

to develop a new breed of professional the LPT - Learning Personalization Trainer, a profile that is complementary to the LEADLAB integrated model, a teacher/trainer with strategic competences to lead a scaffold adult learners in LEAD-LAB approach

to adapt and transfer the personalization approaches and strategies already existing, like the french "Ateliers de Pédagogie Personnalisée", the german "Selbsgesteuert lerner" activities, the italian "@robase of self-learning", integrating them all in the "LEADLAB Model”

to adapt and transfer the personalization approaches and strategies already existing, like the french "Ateliers de Pédagogie Personnalisée", the german "Selbsgesteuert lerner" activities, the italian "@robase of self-learning", integrating them all in the "LEADLAB Model”

ImpactImpact

The impact of the outcomes will be produced in terms of facilitating development and transferring of innovative praxis in the field of adult education.

NVEA teachers and trainers will be involved in all diffusion activities:focus groups, workshops or seminars organized in trans-national meetings, the virtual community in the webspace or other events of association involved (APP, A-GRAF, educommunity, CECE) will enable to fully reach the target of reference and guarantee the necessary impact.

Involvement of some key-institutions in the events (municipalities or other public bodies referred to adult and elderly training): experts, key actors, learners, stakeholders, policy makers will be able to replace some good practices.

•adult learners, who can access to personalized learning pathes;•teachers/trainers, who can acquire strategic competences, skill and professional tools;•NVAE systems, institutions, decisione makers of involved countries.

Foreseeable impact: transformation and shifting of teaching’s methods and in terms of wider involvement of adult learners of contexts of reference.

long-term indicators

acquisition of knowledge and the development of new skills by adult trainers;really application in every-day professional context;bigger involvement of adult in training courses.

short term indicators

correct spotting of concept, concrete integration of personalization models;sharing of experience and knowledge;correct application and experimentation of the model conceived.

The project impacts to:

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