About the project - STRIDE Project

The STRIDE Project

STRIDE (Strategies for the Digital Education) aims to help schools to meet their respective national plans, allowing them to begin a process of digitization under the guidance of experts in the field as well as to increase the skills and knowledge of ICT of teachers and staff.

STRIDE has been funded by the Erasmus+ Programme for Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices in the field of strategic partnerships for school education. STRIDE has a duration of two years, starting on 1st of September 2016 and ending on 31st of August 2018.

During the development of the project, two intellectual outputs will be produced: a Training Path and a Web Community Platform.

The Training Path

The first of the productions, the training path, aims to increase the digitalization in the education field by upgrading teachers’ competences and awareness of the school digital environment through a strategic and holistic approach, which will involve the introduction of single tools or educational methodologies.

The training path will define a set of operative strategies of digitalization of the school environment that will include methodologies, tools and competences, as well as informative and formative resources to raise awareness on teachers and staff on the need of defining and implementing digitalization strategies.

The training path will be defined and tailored by each participating school, and at the same time will follow the national and European policies on the matter. The contents of this training path will be free and available online through the community platform.

Web Community Platform

To keep steady pace with the technological progress and the school environments’ needs, the web community platform aims to become a landmark for the community of teachers, headmasters and training and ICT experts for the ongoing updating of strategies, innovative tools and methodologies.

The platform will offer an online repository of formative and informative resources developed along the training path. Under an OER philosophy, the resources will be available freely, according to the Erasmus+ Programme rules.

It will also provide teachers, headmasters and other staff from education institutions with a useful tool to interconnect, exchange
information and experiences and express their views and ideas about school digitalization practices, creating a collective intelligence.

The objective is to create a virtual environment which allows teachers and schools to be interconnected, even at the end of the project, in order to ensure a continuous peer–learning process, based on the exchange of information and best practices.

The web community platform will be publicly available for any European school.