Introduction to the Module

The COVID-19 pandemic created an urgent need for the use of digital tools to continue the teaching process. This led to a never before seen acceleration of online learning. Many commercial providers of educational platforms (ed-tech) have offered their support and “solutions”,  sometimes free of charge.  This multitude of options proved at times overwhelming for the teaching staff, who in their majority were not used to integrating digital tools in their teaching. Rather than randomly using whatever is most common or most favoured by other teachers, each educator should plan and manage his digital tools according to the needs of his students and their technical possibilities and abilities. This module sets out to develop the following competencies in teachers:

C1. Planning appropriately how to develop personalised digital tools according to the needs of the students

This competence is relevant because not all learning solutions are the same and it is important to first think about what you need to do and then how you need to do it.

C2. Managing an array of digital tools to achieve the best possible educational results

Once a teacher or an entire organization knows what the needs of their students are, and what technological investments need to be made, they have to integrate the chosen solutions in practice and to make them work together.

The learning objectives of this Module are:

1. being able to assess the educational needs of the students
2. being able to choose different digital learning solutions to keep the students engaged
3. being able to integrate the chosen digital solutions in digital learning plan