Sustained Learning – The CorkScrew Experiment

Today’s learning often is mixed up with information procurement, especially when it is done with smartphones: Someone is searching for some information, takes the smartphone, checks „oncle Google“ and finds the requested information. Now he thinks he has learned something. Short time later (that can be even minutes) he has forgotten, what he had found. Read More …

Digital Competences

Digital competences are necessary to survive in our modern society. This has been made clear in the moment, when thousands of people started to work from their home office. Also, pupils and students stayed and studied at home because their school or university was closed. Suddenly, there was a situation in which teachers taught their Read More …

Intermediate Project Meeting in Drammen/NOR

The project group held the intermediate meeting in Drammen/Norway end of June. The discussions focused on the development of the flipped training guide. The agreement of the structure and the content represented the starting point of the development of the material. The guide will be available as an ePub (but as a PDF as well) Read More …

Staff Training in Málaga

The training in Málaga was organized by Peter Mazohl (from the EBI) and was attended by eleven people from the partner organization. The training took place one day in the rooms of the EBI and EDRASE partner organization Arrabal Aid, the other two days at the University of Málaga. The training focused on flipped training Read More …

Kickoff Meeting

At the Kickoff Meeting in Wiener Neustadt (November 16 and 17, 2019), organized and moderated by Peter Mazohl, representatives from all partners have taken part. The consortium of the FAdE-in project consists of four regular partners (European Initiative for Education EBI/EIE AT, EDRASE GR, Asociación Juvance ES, and Intermezzo Ungdom NOR) and the Flipped Learning Global Read More …

Kickoff Meeting

The kickoff meeting of the project will take place in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, in November 2018. The meeting will last for two days and be a starting point to form the team to create excellent project results. Focus of the meeting All partners will send participants to this meeting. The content of the meeting will Read More …

Importance of Adult Education

Adult education has been a fundamental part of further education and Lifelong Learning for decades. It can be seen as a tool to remove illiteracy from society. It gives people a chance to increase their education after school has finished or besides their vocational education or professional development. In many European countries, Adult Education has Read More …

Why do we use frameworks in education?

A framework is a particular set of rules, ideas, or beliefs which you use in order to deal with problems or to decide what to do[1].   Typical problems in education are quality enhancement, needs and preconditions of learners, pedagogical concepts, structure of lessons (or courses) and others. Teaching and learning frameworks are research-informed models Read More …

What does „flipped“ mean?

The flipped approach means active and self-directed learning, to “flip” the roles (Trainer ⇒ Facilitator, Learner ⇒ Self-determining adult) with self-responsibility for their learning (heutagogical approach). Heutagogy means self-determined learning. It is important that learners acquire both competencies and capabilities. Competency can be understood as proven ability in acquiring knowledge and skills (and attitudes), while Read More …