Coordinated by the Interactive and Distributed Technologies for Education (TIDE) research group of the DTIC.

RemixED is a 30-month project, within the framework of the European 2021 Erasmus+ call for the promotion of projects concerning education, training, youth and sport, coordinated by the Interactive and Distributed Technologies for Education (TIDE) research group of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) at UPF. 

In the project, researchers, social enterprises, and school teachers from three countries (Spain, Denmark, and Cyprus) collaborate on innovating teacher professional development with team-based learning design. The team-based professional development approach involves teams of teachers working together to redesign and use with their students open educational resources (OER) following guidance from experts in social inclusion and learning design. 

The OER relate to student stress management and build off of a recent Erasmus+ project, Spotlighters, which ran more than 30 sets of pilot lessons for over 1000 students in 5 countries on the science of stress and self-regulation. The lesson material from Spotlighters is adapted and improved by educators participating in RemixED with a focus on making the lessons more socially inclusive and student-centred (i.e., using Universal Design for Learning guidelines). An additional aim of RemixED is to contribute toward mental health literacy in school education. This will be achieved by familiarizing participating teachers with the Spotlighers lessons and self-regulation techniques such as mindfulness and cognitive reframing, and having them teach the lessons to their students. One partner school in Denmark, 10.klasseskolen, has already committed to integrating the science of stress lessons as part of their school-wide curriculum within the RemixED project. 

Marc Beardsley, the project manager for RemixED and Spotlighters, explains the motivation behind the project.

“We’re aiming to co-design with teachers a professional development process that is centred on learning design and works to sustainably bridge research and practice.”

In addition to developing the professional development approach, RemixED will build on previous technology developed by the TIDE research group (ILDE, Integrated Learning Design Environment) to provide  a supporting platform to facilitate the redesign process and host the revised OER. Laia Albó who brought the consortium together and co-wrote the proposal, describes what inspired the project concept,

“The pandemic not only highlighted the need to strengthen teacher pedagogical uses of technology but also revealed what teachers found of value when required to learn how to use digital technologies – peer support and shared resources. The team-based learning design approach builds off of what we've learned during the pandemic.”

The RemixED consortium includes higher education partners: Universidad de Vigo and European University of Cyprus; school partners: Centro de Estudios Dolmen S.L., SEK-Atlántico S.L., Lykeio Archangelou Apostolos Markos, and 10.klasseskolen; and a social enterprise: MLCommunicate. The project held its kickoff meeting at the end of March at the 10.klasseskolen school in Denmark.

In addition to coordinating the project, TIDE leads the development of the team-based learning design technology and will be working closely with Centro de Estudios Dolmen S.L to co-design and test the project outputs locally.

Davinia Hernández-Leo, director of the TIDE research group, explains, “Supporting teachers in designing for fruitful learning is one of our main research lines, present in several of our research and transfer initiatives. In TIDE, we advance educational technologies highlighting the role of teachers and the potential of teacher collaboration and mutual inspiration” 

Further information on RemixED and its progress will be available on the RemixED project website and TIDE group website. For researchers, educators and educational institutes interested in knowing more about the project, please contact [email protected].

RemixED website:  https://www.upf.edu/web/remixed