Innovative Tools for Enhancing E-Learning Solutions in Universities. Blended Curriculum

Abstract

The crisis generated by the COVID 19 pandemic has forced European universities to move their teaching activities to the online environment. Although most Higher Education Institutions have implemented E Learning platforms years ago, the teaching staff are now experiencing difficulties in using these platforms and in creating and adapting the course content, needed to quickly adapt to a fast evolving and complex situation. DIGITOOLS project aimed at introducing enhanced digital tools and methods to help universities staff deliver quality education through online means. The project brought together s ix Higher Education Institutions and one consulting SME, specialized in digitization, from s ix countries focusing on the implementation of online and blended teaching, encouraging, at every step, unitary practice. As a result of the DIGITOOLS project, the universities will be able to provide, through teaching staff and libraries, high quality online training courses, with a focus on subject specific teaching. The Blended Curriculum presented in this e book , one of the five Outputs of the project, will support the teaching staff from Higher Education Institutions to acquire the skills and competencies needed to create and deliver high quality online courses, including blended teaching. The role of university libraries is crucial in this project, as they have to adapt their services and provide digital learning materials as well as information and digital skills training, both to teaching staff and to students.