Lead Organisation: ACS

The purpose of this WP is to develop new learning materials by EU partners on the use of multidisciplinary approaches and advanced technologies in the management of land resources. All material, reviewed by external expert and agreed with Egyptian partners, will be implemented in an e-Learning System and used to update specific technical skills of Egyptian professors. The same material will be then used in the new accredited Master.

Task 3.1 Development of new learning material
The EU academic partners will develop 10 digital technical modules based on the results of the need assessment, agreed with the local partners (5 by NRD-UNISS, 2 by UNIVLEEDS, 2 by AUTH, 1 by UNIMED) and shared through the e-Learning system. Each course will include several video lectures, slides, pdf files, homework assignments and various quiz. The video lessons will be developed using the ”scribing” technique that converts concepts in a graphic format translating the main ideas of a speech into keywords and graphics. This technique can help to capture concepts that are sometimes lost and it can reinforce the memorisation of thoughts and ideas. The modules will be also tested and evaluated by Egyptian teachers during their training. They will be able to suggest improvements that will be implemented by the EU partners before the starting of the Master. The new learning material will be made freely accessible through the use of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-4.0 International License.

See online courses

Task 3.2 Creation and development of the e-learning platform
The aim of this task is to design, develop and implement the Moodle platform, developed by NRD-UNISS. Several tools will be installed such as discussion forums, instant messages, online news and announcements, online quiz and Wiki to allow teachers to manage and promote learning and increase the level of interactions with students. Internal (teachers and students) and external blogs will be embedded in Moodle in order to promote and realize a valuable place for exchanging ideas, news and information relevant for the project participants and for all those engaged in educational matters and land management issues.
The e-learning platform will be equipped with the modules prepared on task 3.1 and new ones.
The same platform will be also used as project web-site.

Task 3.3 Educational game
ACS, with the support of all partners, will develop an educational game that will oblige players to operate and take decisions to solve complex and inter-disciplinarily questions by relying on previously acquired knowledge. Through selected actions players will progress and pass step by step to several levels achieving the outcome of a sustainable land management. In this way a player is challenged to put into practice his knowledge and develop different types of skills and cognitive capacities.

Task 3.4 Design and installation of workstations and equipment
Each local partner university will be equipped as follows:workstations; a library composed by modern international literature; a portable Raman spectrometer for speditive water and soil analysis; a GPS. These new equipment will be intensively used both for teaching and studying by students and researchers.