Under the title “Adult education on European social dialogue in the digital era”, 23 education officers from trade unions and other employee organizations from seven countries met on March 9 and 10, 2021 for a seminar organized by the European Center for Workers’ Questions, the Nell Breuning House and the Centro de Formação e Tempos Livres. The seminar was supported by the European Union.
In 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 fundamentals of digital teaching and learning (educational process, educational organization, digital fluency and digital readiness) were discussed in the course ) 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 was created on all topics and also worked on application-oriented.
At the end of the first day, Ms. Arcaro and Norbert Klein from the EZA Secretariat once again discussed the special requirements in the context of multilingual units for seminar planning.
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.
In the last part of the seminar, Dora Fonseca (PhD in Sociology and researcher in the field of "Industrial Relations, Social Inequalities and Trade Union Studies" at the Center for Social Studies / Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra) then explained the importance of digitized educational work for employee organizations and asked relevant surveys and Studies before
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