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Ongoing projects
UMI-Sci-Ed
period: June 2016- May 2019 source of funding: Horizon 2020 coordinator: Computer Technology Institute and Press“ Diophantus” website: www. umi-sci-ed. eu
UMI-Sci-Ed aims at enhancing the attractiveness of science education and careers for 14— 16 year olds via the use of latest technologies. We put Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing and the Internet of Things( UMI) into practice towards enhancing the level of STEM education and attractiveness of career in domains pervaded by UMI.
UMI are the technologies of the future. The application of UMI technologies in education and training can be fun and engaging, it suits multi-disciplinary projects, triggers different competences and skills and motivates differently oriented people, even those that would otherwise not be interested in technology.
The exploitable results of the project so far are the following:
UDOO-EDU: a low cost modular hardware kit: an Arduino-powered Android / Linux single board computer enriched with sensors, Bluetooth 4.0 and a Wi-Fi module.
Programming framework: a series of software tools that allow the user to program a behaviour into the UDOO-EDU kit.
Instructional methodology and tools: the definition, implementation, and evaluation of the pedagogical methodology and tools for promoting STEM via UMI.
Educational scenarios: the definition of the educational activities, oriented at UMI and STEM learning, which will be executed by the students during the piloting phase.
Communities of Practice( COPs): that use UMI technologies to support and enhance STEM learning, where teachers are able to access educational scenarios, learning materials and resources that they can us in the classroom and where students can share their projects.
UMI-Sci-Ed platform: that provides all the basic functionalities and services allowing the use of it for educational purposes and supporting the CoPs approach.
Career consultancy service: a series of activities and scenarios using CoPs and UMI, plus various materials, aimed at motivating students in pursuing a career in UMI fields.
Qualifications: an official record showing that students / teachers have finished a training course on STEM / UMI or have the necessary skills.
ALL DIGITAL is the dissemination partner in the project. We design and carry out a range of dissemination and promotion tools and activities, maintain the project website, create blogposts, and exploit social media. We coordinate the publication of articles and the presentation of UMI-Sci- ED project at various conferences, exhibitions, events. We also take advantage of our events and campaigns such as Get Online Week to promote the project to our members and other relevant stakeholders.
At the ALL DIGITAL Summit in Barcelona, we organised a howto workshop on using UMI technologies to promote STEM education. A number of interested participants discussed UMI technologies and their potential use in education and training, and attended a hands on session on the design of a training scenario using UMI technologies and the UDOO Neo kit.