Cristina Mercader (co-cordinator of the project), Andy Morodo and Laia Alguacil (members of the project from the Autonomous University of Barcelona) attended the 30th edition of the International Conference of Universities in Educational Technology. The main purpose of the conference was to revise the key points of the last 30 years of work related to research and teaching in educational technology, oriented towards a prospective look into the future of this field.

In addition, Cristina Mercader, Andy Morodo and Laia Alguacil participated in the programme of the conference by presenting a communication within the topic of “Digital technologies applied to education”. The main purpose of this paper was to share the outputs of the D-Eva project with the community of higher education teachers and researchers.

The UAB members presented and disseminated the results of IO1 (D-EvaBank), IO2 (D-EvaHub) and IO3 (D-EvaTraining). It was also a good opportunity to learn from other community members who have developed similar projects, as well as to disseminate the application of our outputs in other contexts that are different from our own. 

Find the communication here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n1iWybLcdMPrWqPr2Vqgv88tssw351IU/view

More information about the conference: https://wp.ull.es/jute2023/  

University teachers from all over Catalonia, administration leaders, stakeholders and experts from the field attended the last event of the project.

The event started with the director of the CRiEDO, the research center in which the project is coordinated, Joaquín Gairín, together with the two co-coordinators of the project: Cristina Mercader and Georgeta Ion (UAB).

Afterwards, it was the time to explain the project and present the products elaborated in IO1 (D-EvaBank), IO2 (D-EvaHub) and IO3 (D-EvaTraining).

On the second half of the event, the project members Laia Alguacil and Andy Morodo (UAB) develop a workshop in which the attendands where able to try on some of the digital solutions created by the Project with Virtual Reality Glasses.

Before the closing act, two experts in the field, Ludmila Martins (UB) and Miquel Àngel Prats (URL-Blanquerna) together with the co-coordinator of the project Cristina Mercader (UAB) discussed in the round table moderated by Ingrid Noguera (member of the project, UAB) about the future of assessment in higher education with the irruption of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.

The event was developed in face to face format but it will be available in Youtube soon.

The members of the team from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the coordinating organization, participated in the last meeting of the D-Eva project. In addition, representative members of the participant institutions also attended the meeting:  Digital Society School (the Netherlands), Intercultural Iceland (Iceland) y University of West Timisoara (Romania). 

The meeting was a space of coordination. All the intellectual outputs that have been created throughout the project were revised and the last details were addressed: 

• D-EvaBank: a repository of activities and resources for students’ assessment of practical skills with digital tools. 
• D-EvaHub: a platform that brings together tools, experiences and resources for the assessment of practical skills with digital tools. This hub also contains 6 digital solutions to assess practical skills, which have been developed by the D-Eva team through virtual reality, simulations and gamification. 
• D-EvaTraining: a training on the assessment of practical skills through digital tools, in the form of microlearning capsules. 

This meeting was essential to have one last face-to-face coordination to discuss the last activities of dissemination and the sustainability of the project. The participating institutions are committed to the use and continuity of the products developed within the framework of the project. 

This event will be held in the Faculty of Educational Sciences and will be hosted by its co-coordinators: Georgeta Ion and Cristina Mercader.

The event will serve as a final conference of the project and it will allow to disseminate and promote the 3 intellectual outputs developed during the timeline of the project.

Agenda:

9:30 Welcome and summary of the project

9:40 Transformation and teacher training of assessment activities with digital technologies: presentation of the 3 IOs

10:15 Parallel workshops to try on the digital solutions created

11:45 Round table: Assessment and artificial intelligence: implications for Higher Education

12:45 Closure

For further information, please visit the interactive leaflet https://view.genial.ly/6419602b2a8ad20018b40063

To register, click on the following link: https://eformularis.uab.cat/web/criedo/devaconference 

On May 17th, 18th and 19th  the seventh edition of the International Conference EDO was held in Barcelona. The conference was organized by the Equipo de Desarrollo Organizacional (from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), the Centro de Estudios Jurídicos y Formación Especializada and the Escuela de Administración Pública de Catalunya. The main theme of this edition has been collective intelligence and learning in organizations after the pandemic. The purpose of this conference was to analyze the new proposals of knowledge management in institutions. 

Cristina Mercader, Georgeta Ion, Laia Alguacil and Alexandra Vicente, members of the CRiEDO (UAB) and the D-Eva project (Practical skills evaluation with digital tools) have developed a practical workshop to share a part of the results of IO2 the project. The team has presented the project, shared the creation process of the digital solutions to assess practical skills in teacher training, and shown some of these solutions. Furthermore, the participants have been able to try the solutions with virtual reality, to explore the program and to co-design a new solution that is similar and that can be implemented in their context for training. Therefore, the workshop has been aimed at the transferability to other institutions. 

At the closure session of the conference, the activity has been awarded the best workshop of the programme. 

Follow the workshop step by step with images here: https://twitter.com/project_deva/status/1658860586204119041

More information about the project here: https://d-eva.eu/   

As a part of Intellectual Output 3, the team has designed and implemented the training on the key questions related to the assessment of practical skills with digital tools.

The training has been elaborated in the format of brief modules and training capsules, derived from the most frequently asked questions by higher education teachers. The training capsules have already been implemented with the teachers in the partner institutions, and will shortly be published in this website in all project languages.

These digital solutions are a part of Intellectual Output 2. As a part of IO2, contextualised, personalised, social, formative and integrated digital assessment activities are created. The first two digital assessment activities have been created by the team at Digital Society School, who are also the coordinators of IO2.

• Class’em, a game to improve teacher education students’ time management skills in class.
• Temach!, a digital tool to improve teacher education students’ body language in their communication in diverse contexts: while teaching a class, while giving a presentation, etc.

Both these digital solutions, as well as the other solutions that the team is currently working on, can be found in the D-EvaHub.

On behalf of the D-Eva team, we would like to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of the team of trainees at the Digital Society School. For the past months, they have worked on researching, designing, creating and testing these two digital solutions. Congratulations and thank you!

During the past year, the D-Eva team has continued working hard on gathering and designing materials to support teachers and academic leaders in the field of Teacher Education, especially those involved in delivering teaching in work-related subjects such as practical workshops, school placements, internships, seminars on practical skills evaluation through digital technologies.

Looking to next year, we look forward to sharing our knowledge and expertise through the enrichment and dissemination of our digital assessment activities, which will take advantage of VR, AR, gamification and simulation to create innovative digital activities with high educational potential. In addition, during this year we will start implementing the training program, which consists of brief modules and training capsules, online and digitally available and organized by levels of practical skills development.

We are grateful for the opportunities we are given to contribute to the European educational community. We are looking forward to the impact that the outcomes of the D-Eva project will have on the community.

We take this opportunity, on behalf of the D-EVA consortium, to thank you for your following our activity and wish you a happy New Year!

In the hub, you will find all things related to assessment with digital tools in higher education:

• Digital tools that you can use to support your assessment activities, including a brief description of each tool.
• Experiences of assessment with digital tools. For some of them, you will also find a ready-to-use digitalized version of the assessment activity.
• Resources to learn more about assessment with digital tools, ranging from articles, best practices and other useful information.

On top of that, you can also filter all of these to find exactly what works for you! At the moment, the hub is available in English, and is in process of being translated into Catalan, Romanian and Spanish.

Do you also have any tool, experience or resource that you would like to share with the community? We would love to have you share your digital assessment experience here.

It was a great opportunity to revise all that we have done so far and what is yet to come. With IO1 already finished, the team took this opportunity to work on IOs 2 and 3. Fruitful discussions and brainstorming sessions took place among the partners of the project from HvA/DSS (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), UAB (Barcelona, Spain) and UVT (Timisoara, Romania).

The team also had the opportunity to attend the multiplier event organized by HVA, which took place at the Digital Society School, along with other stakeholders. With the collaboration of the trainees, the team shared the progress they have done so far with the development of digital solutions, as part of IO2.

It was a great opportunity to have this meeting. Thank you, HVA and Digital Society School for hosting this meeting!