Promoting Digital Learning in STEM Subjects - DigiSTEM

The main activities/results of the project are: - developing DigiSTEM methodology that encapsulates innovative pedagogies, best practices and concrete examples for implementing digital learning/teaching of STEM and other similar subjects (PR1) - building, maintaining and developing a digital platform for STEM subjects’ digital teaching and learning to support educators’ continuous professional development with high-quality resources (PR2) - developing guidelines for European STEM educators to increase digital and pedagogical competence and implementing good practices and new methods smoothly into daily teaching activities and curricula (PR3) -enhancing HEI educators' competence of such instructional design that improves students’ active learning, self-regulated learning and learning engagement with the help of educational technology and learning analytics to provide more effective and personalized support of learners (PR1-PR3) -to organize/participate 3 LTT (C1-C3) events and participate dissmination events (E1-E6) aimed at providing technological and pedagogical training/knowledge to STEM educators in the context of the project. Developing MOOC as a form of OER that will combine all the tangible results of the project to be able to promote and integrate developed good practices and innovative methods into daily activities of European HEIs. The MOOC is based on piloted PRs, which have been developed on the basis of feedback received during piloting.

The primary context of the DigiSTEM project is STEM education. The objective is to promote innovative utilization of educational technology, learning analytics and use of open educational resources (OERs) in online, classroom and blended learning, especially in HEIs STEM subjects. The project aims to support professional development of HEI educators by increasing their technological and pedagogical skills and competence. The objective is to build HEI educators' competence of such instructional design that improves students’ active learning, self-regulated learning and learning engagement with the help of educational technology and learning analytics to provide more effective and personalized support of learners. In Europe, there doesn't exist a framework or model for learning digital skills and pedagogy in HEI STEM education. When teaching/learning STEM subjects, there are also special needs of digital tools/environments for example in presenting mathematical language, equations etc.