Project Description
Socio-economic integration is essential for long-term employment stability, community participation and ultimately happiness in their new societies for refugees and humanitarian migrants. Nonetheless, there are extensive and deep-rooted barriers to overcome before integration is a reality, which are long-standing issues that persist to the current day. Adult education has a critical role to play in successful integration processes, by equipping individual refugees with the means to address many of the barriers that they face.
In this context, with its focus on equipping refugees with skills and knowledge for digital self-learning and resilience, IEEDO develops innovative customised e-learning resources that promote resilience and efficacy in digital self-learning for refugees and humanitarian migrants – and the tutors and coaches that support them to reduce the disparity they face in European adult education.
Its objectives surround the creation at the European level of novel tools and gamification-based learning methodologies for refugee that combine holistic digital skills informed by the EU Digcomp framework with the EU Key Competence of ‘learning how to learn’ that are that designed, developed and mobilised at a common transnational level.
Over 36 months, the IEEDO project will engage with 60 coaches and 300 refugees, as well as a range of stakeholder organisations in its validation activities to design five specific Intellectual Outputs. The project begins with a study to provide a robust methodological underpinning for its approach in IO1 Digital self-learning: Pedagogical Framework. This, in turn leads to the design and production of IO2, the Coaching Curriculum Programme: Supporting Digital Self-Learning with specified and detailed learning objectives, and content development for the tutors and coaches that support the target community of learners – many of whom are earlier generation refugees themselves.
At the heart of the project is IO3 – The IEEDO Digital Kit for building resilience in self-learning. This is an interactive eLearning resource for refugees using interactive and videogame-based approaches for refugees to develop their digital self-learning skills for resilience and progression, whether learning in autonomous or blended learning concepts. This is accompanied by IO4, the Pedagogical Guide and Digital Resource Pack for Coaches to ensure that coaches and tutors in adult and community learning contexts are equipped with the skills and knowledge to accompany IO3 and support refugees as they develop their digital self-learning skills. Finally, IO5 Guidelines for IDDEO learning suite service integration draws together the experiences of the project to produce a step guide for learning providers and service design managers on the key principles, techniques and resources generated by IEEDO and how to get the best from them so that refugees are supported with customised and flexible approaches specifically designed for them.
The IEEDO project implements a transnational joint staff training event, in which the coordinators of the digital learning coaches in each country work together at a high pedagogical level so that the developed resources can be robustly validated with the refugee learner communities. There is also a programme of 6 Multiplier events in partner countries, including a mid-term transnational conference in Berlin and the final IEEDO conference in the UK.
Ultimately, IEEDO offers a flexible, sustainable solution that is scalable, transferable and replicable, contributing to the innovation that will be required to address this challenge. The ultimate, long term vision is that partners and their networks will open up new avenues for effective adult and community-based learning with refugees and humanitarian migrants through the IEEDO model of digital self-learning to foster educational, social and economic integration as an exemplar approach for refugee communities.
Visit the project’s website to discover more about our Intellectual Outputs and project partners: https://euieedo.wordpress.com/
