PBL framework for Digital Collaborative Teacher Training

The overall objective of this proposal is to develop a flexible PBL approach for collaborative teacher training focused on digital enhancement for active learning in Higher Education (HE).
The specific objectives of this proposal are:
O1 - Identify and select best practices of teacher training in HE.
O2 - Develop a descriptive framework for PBL approaches for collaborative teacher training focused on the digital enhancement for active learning, allowing personalised and flexible learning pathways.
O3 - Develop Open Education materials for teacher training.
Objective 1 (O1) relates to international evidence and practices in teacher training and innovation in HE, including the study of academic development centres in countries participating in the proposal. This objective will allow delivering recommendations for designing teacher training initiatives, including the relevant themes and approaches. This is the main outcome of WP1, which will deliver a set of recommendations for the next WP1. This objective will address priority (1d) as referred above in the priorities and topics section.
The previous objective is a starting point, which will support the design of a PBL framework of reference for teacher training. Problem-Based Learning is an educational approach in which an open-ended problem based on professional practice is tackled by the learners working collaboratively to address the challenges posed by that problem. If learners are mainly analysing the problem such an approach is viewed as being problem-based. If the learners are developing a project while tackling the problem, having interrelated activities and milestones, then usually this approach is named project-based learning. So, we will use the PBL acronym for “problem and project-based learning”.
Objective 2 (O2) is related to the development of a framework, describing how to set up training approaches based on PBL for teaching staff in HE. This PBL training approach will focus on the digital enhancement (priority 2b) for active learning innovative educational approaches. Thus, the trainees (teaching staff) will develop projects, with solutions for their own contextual problems in their own curricular units. So, the result will be real solutions for real problems. The framework will describe the timing, the activities, the milestones and the type of result (project) expected from training. Additionally, it will address both face to face and online training environments. This will address priorities and topics 1b, 2a and 2d.
Finally, aiming to deliver a useful practical result, objective 3 (O3) proposes to provide open education training materials that will be developed, tested and disseminated by the project team. All HEIs interested in training may use these materials and the framework. This objective, inter-related with O2, will contribute to priorities 1b, 2a, 2b and 2d, as referred above in the priorities section.