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illuminatED, a European project supporting learning based on knowledge of cognitive neurosciences
Coordinated by Davinia Hernández-Leo, director of the Interactive and Distributed Technologies for Education (TIDE) research group of the DTIC, and with the participation of members of the CEXS. The project’s kick-off meeting was held on 14 and 15 December on the Poblenou campus. It has a duration of 30 months and comes within the 2017 Erasmus+ call.
On 14 and 15 December, the kick-off meeting of a new European project was held: illuminatED (Illuminating Effective Teaching Strategies with the Science of Learning), on UPF’s Poblenou campus. A 30-month project, within the framework of the European 2017 Erasmus+ call for the promotion of projects concerning education, training, youth and sport, coordinated by Davinia Hernández-Leo, director of the Interactive and Distributed Technologies for Education (TIDE) research group of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) at UPF. It also involves the collaboration of Marc Beardsley as project manager and Patricia Santos – both are members of the TIDE research group- as well as Mar Carrió, a member of the Health Sciences Educational Research Group (GRECS), of the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences (CEXS) at UPF. The consortium of the illuminatED project is made up of the universities of Helsinki (Finland), Western Macedonia (Greece), and of the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences of Helsinki (Finland), as well as Portuguese companies Advancis and Boon.
The main goal of illuminatED is to reduce the existing gap between teaching practice and cognitive neuroscience. It will thus seek to find out what training activities and what software design tools, in the area of learning, can give power to educators through knowledge from cognitive neuroscience. That is to say, the project seeks to contribute how lasting knowledge is constructed so that professionals of education can improve the design of learning, evaluate different approaches of their teaching and guide the students towards selecting their most effective study strategies.
Hence, the project intends to model the knowledge-based practices contributed by cognitive neurosciences; produce a set of tools for trainers; organize workshops and a massive open online course (MOOC) to support learning and long-term retention. In addition, the project will provide a collaborative platform (ILDE, ilde.upf.edu/about) to contribute to the social capital of the teaching profession through the exchange of good practices and learning designs.