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Web Design / DIGITAL COMPETENCE 5: WEB DESIGN
« Last post by upskillead on January 13, 2019, 06:27:44 pm »
Digital competence Web Design is very complex and requires many different skills. Competence is intertwined with the other knowledge and skills of ICT.  Bellow you can find a user experience of Design core competences just to show the complexity of web designer issues.
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Graphic Design / DIGITAL COMPETENCE 4: GRAPHIC DESIGN
« Last post by upskillead on January 13, 2019, 06:26:17 pm »
Graphic design is one of the specific digital competence, which is the base for more efficient work of Adult educators. Adult educators need basic knowledge for ensuring more efficient promotion of the organization and animation of participants for lifelong learning.  Adult educator prepares and produces messages in a variety of techniques. The mission is the transfer of information with the relevant words and image and use of diverse expression tools, which are adjusted to the specific target group (Adult education users / Adult learners).
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Learning Management System / DIGITAL COMPETENCE 3: LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (MOODLE)
« Last post by upskillead on January 13, 2019, 06:25:26 pm »
This course sets benchmarks for the basic Learning Management System Moodle skills required to use Moodle for the purpose of teaching and training. It aims to provide the Adult Educators with the necessary technical skills to use Moodle as an educational aid in a teaching and training environment.  Adult Educators will learn to set up an account and how multimedia resources such as text files, graphics, photos and videos can be loaded and manipulated.
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Social Media / DIGITAL COMPETENCE 2: SOCIAL MEDIA FOR EDUCATION
« Last post by upskillead on January 13, 2019, 06:24:36 pm »
The use of social media as an educational tool has been the object of numerous studies in the latest years, all of which agree that if used strategically and carefully, they can enhance both learners’ experience and teaching/ training outcomes.  Social media potential for supporting the transition from “standardized “to “personalised” education (EC 2001:9;UNESCO,1996) is defined by its ability to promote cognitive and meta cognitive learners development while using a constructivist teaching and learning approach(EC SM2016).   
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Online safety / DIGITAL COMPETENCE 1: ONLINE SAFETY
« Last post by upskillead on January 13, 2019, 06:20:54 pm »
In this technological advanced era we are living, everything is done online; computers and smartphones are the extensions of us. On the other hand, with the Internet came a selection of fraudulent activities which put at risk our personal online security.
Based on the results of the survey produced during the implementation of IO1, it was well accepted that most Adults Educators are aware of their need to be informed and well trained about ‘Online safety’.
According to the Digital Agenda presented by the European Commission one the seven most important pillars that Europe 2020 aims to grow is to reinforce the feeling of online safety by being well educated about the Internet and its dangers.
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UPSKILLEAD PLANFORM / Re: UPSKILLEAD OPEN BADGES ECO-SYSTEM
« Last post by Lorena on January 13, 2019, 06:12:10 pm »
Very interesting methodology!
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UPSKILLEAD PLANFORM / Welcome to UPSKILLEAD forum
« Last post by upskillead on January 13, 2019, 04:59:24 pm »
UPSKILLEAD consortium creates badges for six different digital competences:
o   Online safety
o   Graphic Design
o   Web Design
o   Interactive White board
o   Learning Management System
o   Social Media

-Adult Educators are invited to register in the e-learning platform and take the course(s) of the UPSKILLEAD programme
-The e-learning platform listing indicates the criteria for earning the badge
-Adult Educators should provide evidences against the badge criteria
-Adult Educators should claim a badge, including evidence, against badge criteria
-The evaluator (assigned by UPSKILLEAD consortium) decides whether or not to award the badge to the earner ad contacts them
-The evaluator can submit feedback to forward to the earner regarding their application
-If the badge is awarder, the issuer creates a badge assertion
-Issuer optionally offers to let the earner push their badge to the Mozilla backpack
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UPSKILLEAD PLANFORM / UPSKILLEAD OPEN BADGES ECO-SYSTEM
« Last post by Create A Forum on January 13, 2019, 04:39:53 pm »
Open Badges provide portable and verifiable information about digital skills and achievements. Adult Educators can unlock opportunities by sharing collections of badges representing desired skill sets in a dynamic, evidence-based way.  Open Badges represent legitimate, authenticated achievements, described within badge and linked to the UPSKILLEAD project
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