Presentation by Diana Andone, Director of the eLearning Center at the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania for the European Distance Learning Week's final day webinar on "Digital skills in teaching and learning – are we on the right track?" - 11 November 2016 Recording of the discussion is available here: https://eden-online.adobeconnect.com/p80lg2b5akr/ The recording of Deirdre Hodson's presentation is available here: https://eden-online.adobeconnect.com/p9bqnf9swq2/

2. Developing digital skills
a bottom-up strategy in
Romania
Dr. Diana Andone
Director of the
eLearning Center
Politehnica University
of Timisoara, Romania @diando70
#EDLW2016

3. DigComp 2.0: The
Digital Competence
Framework for
Citizens.
EuroPass
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/digcomp-20-digital-
competence-framework-citizens-update-phase-1-conceptual-reference-model
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/sites/jrcsh/files/DIGCOMP-FINAL-%20UPDATED%2002-06-2016.pdf

4. https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-students-digital-literacy

5. Digital literacies
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-students-digital-literacy

6. Digital Literacy
(Steve Wheeler http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/ )
Social
Networking
Transliteracy
Maintaining
Privacy
Managing
Digital Identity
Creating
Content
Organizing
and Sharing
Reusing /
Repurposing
Filtering and
Selecting
Self-
Broadcasting

7. The Digital Economy & Society Index
(DESI)
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/desi 29/06/2016

8. Romania
& ICT

9. Romania Education

10. Romania - Needs analysis for digital
competences
 Not a clear National strategy / approach
 The existing Digital divide: regions, age, level of
education
 Need for structure, training, encouragement for
Entrepreneurship
 A need of High ICT skills
 A need of Communication, multicultural skills
 A need of Teachers/ trainers / HR qualification
 A need of Validation / Accreditation

11. Computational thinking

12. Creative creators

13. Masters
Post-universities
degrees
ERASMUS

14. www.unicampus.ro

15. www.unicampus.ro

16. M-Commerce course
www.unicampus.ro

17. TalkTech 2008 -2016 Students
707 students involved, no dropout
Boston, BentleyUniv
Intro to Information Technology
45 students per year
Spoke English
Frequently use the web,
computers, and mobile devices
Age 19-22
Timisoara, UPT
Multimedia Technologies
50 students per year
Spoke English
Frequently use the web,
computers, and mobile
devices
Age 21-22
Virtual mobilities

18. TalkTech2008-2016idea
Work with students from another country to research a
technology topic and present those results using collaborative
multimedia tools
Identify and use both synchronous and asynchronous tools
to communicate with international partners
Produce a tangible work product within a designated period of
time (8 weeks)

19. Multicultural
Online – different time zones
Simulate real world work in an IT company
Students freely choose the tools, communication, working time
and hours, result
TalkTech 2008- 2016

20. TalkTech2008-2016
Students projects 2014
ThingLink

21. TalkTech2008-2016
Students projects 2015
ThingLink

22. TalkTech 2008 – 2016 - Tools

23. TalkTech2008-2016 Tools used by students
Task Tools
align time zones timeanddate.com
chat
Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Google
Hangouts
create and host audio SoundCloud
create and host video Vine, Periscope, YouTube, PowToon
create interactive
images
ThingLink
edit audio Sound Forge
edit images PhotoShop, Paint.net
edit video Windows Live Movie Maker
email Gmail, Outlook
hold video conferences Google Hangouts, Skype
record video mobile phone camera apps
schedule meetings Doodle
search the web Google, Bing
share photos Flickr, Tumblr
share screens join.me, Google Hangouts

24. TalkTech 2016
Vine
exemplu
Messaging App

26. Workshop
Digital Skills &
Competences
in Culture
Universitatea Politehnica Timișoara,
Romania
9 November 2016
In Timisoara and Live-streaming
#digital2016
Multimedia
Research
Center

27. Timisoara – Romania - ICT Community

28. Timisoara area
14 Dojo (4 in villages)
800+ children & 300+ volunteers on record
350+ children & 50+ ,mentors weekly

30. Interactive Digital Media Student
Contest IDMSC
2014, 2015, 2016
Multimedia
Research
Center

31. HackTM 2016
Educatie Smart City
3 days, 1 day training, 400+ participants
2014, 2015, 2016

32. Romanian Open Culture
Hackathon 2015
3 days, training and development, 50+ participants, 7 applications, 2 live and working
#Timisoara2021

33. Romania - Needs analysis RESPONSES
• National strategy / approach
– Bottom-up approach, institutional strategy
• Digital divide: regions, age, level of education
– Online training, Open Education, UniCampus.ro
• Entrepreneurship
– TalkTech, StartUp, HackTM, CoderDojo, IDSMC
• High ICT skills
• TalkTech, StartUp, HackTM, CoderDojo, IDSMC
• Communication, multicultural skills
• TalkTech, HackTM, CoderDojo, IDSMC, UniCampus.ro,
ERASMUS
• Teachers/ trainers / HR qualification
– DidaTec, eActivitati, UniCampus.ro
• Validation / Accreditation
– Local validation

34. CONTACT
Dr. Diana Andone
Director
e-Learning Center
Politehnica UniversityTimisoara
Email: diana.andone@upt.ro
Web
Elearning.upt.ro/diana.andone
@diando70
http://www.slideshare.net/diando70/
EDEN Fellow
2011
EDEN Executive
Committee