Danubius International University will train 5000 teaching staff in digital pedagogy, through the PRODIGY Project

Danubius International University, as a leader, organized, on November 26, in the Senate Hall, the launch of the Pro Digitalization in Education Project - PRODIGY, in the presence of the implementation teams and partners - Egomundi Association, EOS Foundation - Educating for an Open Society, The House of Teachers BRĂILA and The House of Teachers ARGEȘ.

The project aims to increase the number of pre-university teachers who will acquire digital skills and digital pedagogy, to effectively integrate technologies in teaching - learning - assessment practices, to prepare students for the digital age and to increase the quality of the educational act at the national level .

The development of digital pedagogy skills for teachers, including those related to the collection and effective use of available tools and resources in teaching activities, evaluation, communication with parents, creation and exchange of content and digital resources are activities that will take place within this project.

Objectives:

1. CheckmarkConducting professional training programs for the development of digital skills and digital pedagogy for 5000 teachers
2. The publication of at least 2500 open educational materials on the educred.ro platform for the exchange of practices
3. Mentoring activities for participants (target group), for the application in the didactic activity of the skills obtained following participation in the training program, for a period of 3 months
4. Equipping schools from which GT members come with educational hardware and software equipment.

The predicted indicators for this project:

1. Number of teaching staff from state pre-university education (GT) trained in the field of digital pedagogy - 5000 teaching staff, of which at least 1700 from secondary and high school and 2010 from rural areas
2. Open access to educational materials published on a platform of the Ministry of Education that will include a collection of multimedia lessons that will serve as best practice models for each curriculum area/discipline of study, for different levels of education produced by state pre-university teachers (target group) who participated in the training within the Project.

The total value of the requested financing - 19,823,200.00 lei, financed by PNRR.