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Digital learning

Digital and media literacy is about making sure learners have the necessary skills to benefit from technology. The Platform fosters the need to address the digital gap as not everyone benefits from these new possibilities. In 2010, only 39% of Europeans used the Internet for training and education related activities, with huge disparities across countries. Learners need to be digitally skilled before they can actually benefit from the potential offered by new technologies and to engage into further education.

Main barriers are technological, but also linked to attitudes, interests and abilities. Therefore, the Platform supports the plea made by the European Commission for an integrated and collective approach to the digital agenda in its “Opening Up Education” Communication. New technologies represent both a challenge and a great opportunity, especially to support a cultural shift in the way we teach and learn in Europe.

Digital learning also implies the idea of learner-centred, self-directed learning and other innovative learning practices such as blended and hybrid learning, and the creation of new learning environments such as P2P (Peer to Peer learning) and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). This enables learners to determine their own learning speed and path. A key issue is then to recognise and validate the learning taking place online as well as digitial skills themselves.

Resources

  • ALL DIGITAL launches the ALL DIGITAL Weeks 2023 campaign: Enhance your digital skills!

    Brussels, 21 February 2023 – For the 14th year in a row, in 2023, ALL DIGITAL, the European association representing networks of digital competence centres and stakeholders, will run the ALL DIGITAL Weeks, the annual digital inclusion and empowerment campaign involving centres, libraries, community centres, schools and other venues across Europe – which over time helped almost 1.5 million people to get online for the first time or enhance their digital skills.
    In 2023 the campaign will be […]

  • EAEA’s theme of the year 2021: digitalisation

    In 2021, EAEA will focus on digitalisation and promote digital competences in adult education. By selecting this theme EAEA wants to raise awareness of the opportunities, challenges and impact digitalisation has on adult learning and education. Soon we will also publish the Grundtvig Award 2021 call with focus on digitalisation and democracy.
    Read more on EAEA’s annual theme

  • Next-level participation – Citizens-driven e-democracy tools

    Information and communication technology (ICT) constitutes an essential element of people’s daily lives in 2020 and the world could not be imagined without the use of digital technologies. People do their shopping online, consume media on their electronic devices, rent cars with apps, and meet friends virtually – and this is just a snapshot of the current use of technology. Today, a great part of people’s day-to-day activities rely on digital applications and services. Imagining a world without the internet […]

  • LLLP Reaction – For a truly inclusive digital education action plan

    BRUSSELS, January 2021 – Lifelong Learning Platform – European Civil Society for Education reaction to the European Commission Communication on Resetting education and training for the digital age
    On 30 September 2020, the European Commission launched the Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 as part of the Education Package. The updated Digital Education Action Plan includes lessons learnt from the Covid-19 crisis as well as from the Open Public Consultation, to which Lifelong Learning Platform participated. It sets […]

  • Education, Research and Innovation for a new Digital Europe

    On September 30th, the European Commission unveiled its plans for three long-awaited strategic proposals: on the Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027), the European Research Area, and the European Education Area (to be achieved by 2025). The press conference was led by the interventions of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, Vice-President Margaritis Schinas and Commissioner Mariya Gabriel. 
    Executive Vice-President Vestager announced that the new Digital Education Action Plan (DEAP) will be implemented bearing in mind the multiple hard lessons drawn […]

  • LLLP’s contribution for the Digital Education Action Plan

    The Lifelong Learning Platform contributed top the public consultation on the Digital Education Action Plan. The consultation gathered the views of citizens, institutions and organisations on their experiences and expectations during the COVID-19 crisis (both to date and during the recovery period), as well as their visions for the future of digital education.
    In LLLP’s vision of education and training, digital education and media literacy play a crucial role, all the more in times of pandemic isolation. To this […]

  • Meeting of Ministers of Education: Citizenship education in the digital era

    The Lifelong Learning Platform attended the high-level Meeting of Ministers of Education of the States Parties to the European Cultural Convention, organised under the French Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. The meeting took place to address the theme “Citizenship education in the digital era”, at the Maison de la Chimie in Paris.

    LLLP was represented by its President Luis Costa, who addressed the Ministers and highlighted the importance of a lifelong learning approach to […]

  • DIMELI4AC project concludes its research on digital media literacy in schools and plans the next steps

    DIMELI4AC partners met in Hannover on July 11-12 to wrap up the results of their first nine months of collaboration. After conducting extensive research on the state of digital media literacy in four countries, it was time to evaluate the work done so far and plan the next few steps ahead.

    DIMELI4AC is an Erasmus+ KA2 project which aims to promote the development of digital media literacy and critical thinking skills among students aged 10 to 15 with the […]

  • CODESKILLS4ROBOTICS partners look forward to the publication of Comparative Report on coding and STEM skills for primary schools

    CODESKILLS4ROBOTICS partners met in sunny Heraklion (Crete) on June 24-25 to discuss the results of their first six months of work and plan ahead for the development of teaching materials combining coding skills and robotics.

    CODESKILLS4ROBOTICS is an Erasmus+ KA2 project which aims to promote robotics in primary schools as an interactive and engaging channel to introduce kids to coding and STEM skills.

    Over the past few months, CODESKILLS4ROBOTICS partners have been busy researching the status quo of […]

  • DIGIT Focus groups report – Infographics

    During the first phase of project DIGIT, the partners organised three online or face-to-face focus groups in their countries (Poland, United Kingdom, Belgium, Greece, Slovenia and Spain), gathering various stakeholders to assess their awareness and competences on digital identity related issues. At the meetings, the participants – educators, policy-makers, parents and digital experts – explored the four main issues previously unveiled by the project team together:

    Management of personal account and image
    Online safety and security
    Digital citizenship
    Internet and its side effects

    […]

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