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Do you think that technology should better contribute to learning and well-being? Join the Free-ED Webinar Series! Embrace the challenges of a more flexible, technology-supported learning environment! Re-think learning spaces and safeguard the well-being of the children and the teachers!

1st Webinar: Estonian experience of Hybrid Learning

This event is the first webinar in a series of 5 events on hybrid education - making success and challenges visible. First seminar takes place on on June 9th 2021 at 15.00–16.30 EET. On-site attendance for teachers in Miercurea Ciuc and Tallinn!

Topics

• 15.00-15.10 Introduction of the Free-Ed project by Csilla Lazar, Spektrum Educational Center
• 15.10-15.20 Teachers' experiences of last year international STEAM course conducted in hybrid by Janika Leoste
• 15.20-15.40 Estonian teachers coping with distance and hybrid learning this year by Mihkel Kangur and Signe Hohensee
• 15.40-15.55 Teaching and learning together with students. Introducing the results of one year Higher Education project by Larissa Jõgi
• 15.55-16.10 Discussion and group work in Break-out rooms
• 16.10-16.25 Reflection on break-out rooms' discussions
• 16.25-16.30 Closing notes by Csilla Lazar

Benefits of participating: Gathering the experience of Estonian practitioners. Estonia is known as a digitally advanced country.

Speakers

This webinar series on hybrid education will make best practices and current challenges in web-based distance and hybrid education visible to teachers, researchers, educational technology developers and other educational stakeholders, and that will offer opportunity for mutual support and mutual learning.

There will be 5 events:

June 2021 - 1st Webinar

Hosted by the School of Educational Sciences, Tallinn University.

Topics: Using hybrid learning to face uncertainty of teaching conditions under Covid-19 crises. (types of hybrid classroom, technologies used, arrangement of learning activities, methods and procedures).

Keynote speaker: Dr. Janika Leoste, robotics teacher, education innovator with relevant experience in hybrid learning, Tallinn University.

October 2021 - 2nd Webinar

Hosted by the Spektrum Educational Center, Romania.

Topics: Learning teams and co-creative teamwork in online and hybrid education, hosted by P1.

Keynote speaker: Kristóf Fenyvesi, University of Jyvaskyla, Researcher of STEAM, Trans-, Multi- and Interdisciplinary Learning

January 2022 - 3rd webinar

Hosted by the STEM Education Department at the Johannes kepler University, Linz

Topics: STEAM education with innovative methods and digital tools supporting hybrid education.

Keynote speaker: Dr. Zsolt Lavicza, professor at Johannes Kepler University

April 2022 - 4th webinar

Hosted by the “Apáczai Csere János” Pedagogical Center, Romania

Topics: Innovative learning environments, student participation in learning environment improvement:

Keynote speaker: Tiina Mäkelä, researcher at the University of Jyvaskyla

June 2022 - 5th Webinar

Hosted by the Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä

Topics: Wellbeing of teachers, cooperation among teachers, taking risks innovating practices

Keynote speaker: Marja Kankaanranta, senior researcher at the University of Jyvaskyla, expert in digital teacher portfolios

Share your blended and/or hybrid learning experience with teachers across Europe and contribute to our Webinars!

A Framework for Efficient and Engaging Hybrid Education in Lower-secondary Schools (Free-ED) is an Erasmus+ School Education project that aims:

• to define a framework for hybrid education (combining classroom learning with web-based distance learning) in lower secondary schools,
• to collect and share best technology supported education practices in the project countries: Austria, Estonia, Finland and Romania, to help lower secondary teachers reflect on their practice and develop their digital and pedagogical competences, to provide recommendations to education technology developers,
• to help lower secondary teachers reflect on their practice and develop their digital and pedagogical competences,
• to provide recommendations to education technology developers.