SEEDS

The SEEDS objective is establishing a community of best practice for distributed courses between partner universities among European tertiary level teachers. The experience shall help to improve cohesion among European universities, going beyond narrow activities like, for example, the French-German University (Université Franco-Allemande/Deutsch-Französische Hochschule - UFA/DFH). The SEEDS proposal is triggered by the previous activities of the partners that helped to identify current conditions that limit internationalization in general whatever the reason can be. We believe that limitations can be overcome by modernizing and transforming current methods and procedures for international educational collaboration by adopting an integrated digital approach. During the project we will identify suitable digital tools, develop necessary enhancements and interfaces to form a consistent tool chain for distributed online and blended teaching and learning. We will also establish pedagogical methods and administrative procedures to form an innovative ecosystem for a low-threshold fine-grained educational collaboration across Europe. By involving students, educators and administrative staff, digital competencies of all aspects of university education will be developed. The consortium is carefully chosen with university partners with educational obligations, who at the same time have a scientific background in digital technologies, e.g. in the field of human- computer interaction and pedagogy. To complement existing tools and methods, the project will pay special attention to the following issues: 1) pedagogical approaches for distributed shared lectures, 2) methods and tools for laboratory exercises that require remote interaction with machines and other physical devices (‘e-lab’), 3) tools and methods for distributed, remote assessment (‘e-exam’) 4) administrative procedures and tools to account for a large number of (small) lectures and labs and many participants from several universities and interfacing with established tools.