The ETHLAE project builds strongly upon existing work while it aims at filling the gap about innovative pedagogies with emerging technologies, specifically for holistic literacy programs for adults in vulnerable situations. This is because despite extensive exploration of these technologies, a gap in pedagogical approaches remains. For this reason, the project wants to ensure their meaningful incorporation, particularly in inclusive literacy and life skills programs for adults.

Building on the findings from extensive research at a European level, ETHLAE aligns with EU policies like the Digital Education Action Plan to foster digital proficiency and understanding among learners.

Key objectives:

1. Analyzing, Adapting, and Testing Methods to embed emerging technologies in the Adult Learning and Education (ALE) sector and in holistic literacy programs.
2. Supporting ALE Educators in designing and delivering holistic literacy education programs for adults in vulnerable situations, embedding emerging technologies when beneficial, and considering social, contextual, economical, and personal needs of educators and learners.
3. Addressing Inclusion and Diversity in ALE by improving the delivery of holistic literacy programs for adults in diverse states of exclusion.
4. Building Capacity of ALE educators in integrating emerging technologies into adult education, addressing digital transformation by providing resources, training, and support.
5. Enhancing Educator Competences, particularly in teaching methods, digital skills development, and teaching for sustainability, by employing peer learning methods and fruitful exchange between adult educators and ALE staff.
6. Promoting Local Learning Centers and Innovative Learning Spaces by piloting holistic literacy programs embedding emerging technologies in local ALE organizations.

Target groups:

The activities of the ETHLAE project aim to involve several main target groups, directly or indirectly. The primary target groups are the following:

1. Adult Learning and Education (ALE) educators
2. Adult learners
3. Local authorities
4. Civil society organizations
5. Stakeholders in technology-driven education initiatives

Project partners:

EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF ADULTS, Belgium

Algebra University, Croatia

KANSANVALISTUSSEURA, Finland

CENTRUL PENTRU PROMOVAREA INVATARII PERMANENTE TIMISOARA ASOCIATIA, Romania

Verband Österreichischer Volkshochschulen, Austria

National Learning and Work Institute, UK

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The project aims to prepare:

• academics to use AI for innovative teaching and assessment, promoting students’ understanding of the interdisciplinary nature and implications this emerging technology has in various fields.
• students to leverage AI for their learning, through a complementary blended course designed for them.

In an interconnected way, this results in reducing the skills mismatch, improving learners’ forwarding skills which are put at the forefront by today and the future workforce and society.

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The AI4AL project aims to facilitate the mindful adoption of AI technologies in ALE. AI4AL will develop a methodology and a tool for direct involvement of adult educators in the process of adopting AI-based technologies. The project will also offer training to adult educators on the use of the AI4AL tool and the application of AI technologies in ALE.

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BENEFITS

AI-based solutions offer several benefits for the ALE sector:

• AI puts the educators and learners in the centre of the adult learning and education process by offering better assessment of skills and making it possible to provide resources tailored to their needs.
• AI can help adult educators save time by automation of repetitive work and standardisation of results
• Educators can keep their teaching skills up to date hanks to new resources and training opportunities offered by AI

Furthermore, involvement of educators in the development and use of AI-based solutions for adult learning is key for the wide and effective use of AI in adult education.

OBJECTIVES

The project is based on three specific objectives:

• To develop an Engagement Kit for the direct involvement of educators in the process of adopting AI-based technologies in the ALE sector, both formal and non-formal. The kit contains a Methodological Guide and an Online Scenarios Repository.
• To develop “AI4AL”, a matching tool that uses AI technologies to link the assessment of the need for basic digital skills to the offer of micro-credentials to facilitate the construction of highly personalised training offers by adult educators.
• To train educators on the use of AI4AL and the application of AI technologies in the ALE sector through a self-paced learning path.

The project will  highlight the key role of teachers and educators in the development and use of assistive technology, demystifying the supposed threat posed by AI.  And finally, the project will also contribute to the digital transformation by testing and upscaling the use of AI in  skills assessment.

PARTNERS

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