Under the title "Adult education on European social dialogue in the digital era", 29 education officers (12 present/17 online) from trade unions and other employee organisations from nine countries met from December 8th to 9th, 2020 for a seminar organised by the European Centre for Workers’ Questions and the Nell- Breuning House. The seminar was supported by the European Union.
During the course, the theoretical basics of the changed learning setting (changed learning habits and expectations of the learners, the “NEW NORMAL” with new requirements and opportunities, influencing factors on educational processes) and the basics of digital teaching and learning (educational process, educational organization, digital fluency and digital readiness) were presented.
In a second step, the stages of digital learning (distribution, interaction, collaboration) were addressed using various concepts (enrichment, integration and virtualization concept).
The next step was digital teaching variants (from the flipped classroom to gamification and teaching videos to virtual reality) to additional tools and energizers (from Zoom to Jitsi and Kialo to Miral, Padlet and Thinglink)
With the adult educator and head of the Academy for Scientific Further Education at the Technical University of Cologne, Ilona Arcaro, an overview of all topics was created and work was also applied in a practical manner.
At the end of the first day, Dr. Victoria Znined and Matthias Homey from the EZA Secretariat again explained the special requirements for EZA seminars and explained the importance of multilingual units for seminar planning in the context of digital offers. On the second day, the practice-oriented part of the seminar was about supplementing your own plans with the help of the theories and tools presented and/or developing new seminar concepts.
The special aspect “European seminars with different languages, origin of the participants and learning needs” was given a lot of attention.
The plans presented were then discussed with the expert and further suggestions were given.