The aim of this European consortium project was to provide high-quality digital resources for history teachers across Europe as an impetus for a multi-perspective teaching approach. The project group consists of the lead applicant EUROCLIO(Netherlands), in collaboration with the web developers Webtic (Netherlands), the Mount School, York (UK), the Instytut Badan Edukacyjnych (IBE, Poland) and the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media. The team developed online tools, source material and modules for historical learning that have been made available on Historiana, an online portal run by the community of European history teachers.
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Approach
The first stage of Historiana’s expansion involved a requirements assessment conducted by The Educational Research Institute (IBE). The Mount School then devised and tested sample learning activities to demonstrate how the digital tools can be implemented in the classroom. Cross-border source collections then have been assembled on a variety of different topics and made available online.
The Leibniz Institute for Educational Media compiled a report examining the curricula specifications and educational policy requirements related to digital learning in Europe. The report investigates 1) the strategies for digitisation in schools that exist at national level, 2) the aims associated with such strategies and the potential ascribed to digtal learning, 3) the guidelines for digital learning included in curricula. This involves the research, analysis and evaluation of political policy documents, history and core curricula from selected European countries as well as the political guidelines issued by the European Union relevant to digital learning. The report includes recommendations for the advancement of digital learning in history lessons to which all project partners contributed.
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Results
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Publications
- Tribukait, Maren. 'Digital learning in European history education: Political visions, the logics of schools and teaching practices'. History Education Research Journal 2020 (17) 1, 5–22. DOI https://doi.org/10.18546/HERJ.17.1.02.
- Tribukait, Maren et al. Digital Learning in European Education Policies and History Curricula. Eckert. Dossiers 13 (2017) [open access]. https://repository.gei.de/handle/11428/232
