Digilego is an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership on Digital Readiness co-funded by the European Union and four other academic and research institutions
Digilego is providing high quality easily transferable open educational resources for digital methods training in geography and environmental sciences at higher education institutions
Digilego is creating Open Educational Resources (OER) for digital and blended method training, available via an open and participatory platform
Digilego is allowing participatory contributions from higher education teachers and other institutions through a peer review platform for resources

Developing methodology resources

The digilego project focuses on the development and provisionment of methodology resources (using an online portal currently under development) in geography and environmental science within the following domains.

Field

We will train a new cohort of university teaching staff how to create and deliver virtual and blended field trips, produce high-quality virtual field trips, and produce a series of building blocks, manuals and how-to guides that will facilitate the creation of targeted resources by university teaching staff.

Quantitative

Spatial and temporal analysis, principles of sampling, properties of data and measurement, presentation of data via graphs, plots and maps, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and a wide range of terminology and concepts related to surveying, mapping, data handling, descriptive and inferential statistics and critical appraisal of quantitative results.

Qualitative

Methods resources will cover standard social science methods such as interviews, focus groups, archive methods, textual analysis, visual representations, and central themes related to research contexts such as decolonizing the curriculum, positionality, and research ethics.

Lab

Lab methodology resources will facilitate analysis training of diverse topics, such as: water and sediment, stereoscopic aerial photography, and field surveying and data gathering. We will be generating a mixture of OERs including videos, images, unpublished datasets, editable and fixed documentation covering lab methods from aspects of lab safety and set up to analytical aspects.

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LTT Workshop 2023

Digilego Learning, Teaching and Training Workshop, 22-24 May 2023 Trier University & Luxembourg Institute of Socioeconomic Research Register here - See programme PDF You can register for individual days. Workshop description The workshop offers the opportunity to develop and strengthens digital skills for geography and environmental sciences methods teaching including field, qualitative and quantitative methods. The workshop includes field elements and hands on training with selected tools and applications as well as presentations on best practices, experiences and interactive round tables for knowledge exchange and trouble shooting.
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Criteria and Guiding Principles for OER

Digilego Open Educational Resources (OERs) Open Educational Resources (OERs) are, typically, digital materials freely available to assist in teaching or self-study. OERs can vary greatly in size and applicability. They can be part of a lesson, used as priming for a teaching session, used during a session, or shared with students following sessions to reinforce or supplement learning (e.g. provide alternative perspectives), potentially using different mediums. As part of the digilego project, we defined five types of OERs:
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Workshop: Creating urban virtual fieldtrip resources in Berlin, Germany

Digilego is hosting its second virtual field course development workshop in Berlin, Germany from August 29th to Sept. 2nd 2022. The aim is to develop a series of open educational resources with a focus on urban geographic and environmental themes that each have use and value in their own right but also as a larger-scale resources that can be used as a field session in an entirely online capacity. Participants will learn how to create virtual field trips and resources.

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Lab and Quantitative OER delegation

As part of the digilego project’s creation of open educational resources (OER) for LAB and QUANTITATIVE domains an OER bundle formalization meeting is taking place on May 23rd (12h00-14h00 BST & 13h00-15h00 CET). The meeting will mainly be a summary of who is participating in generating OER, what OER packages/groups/bundles they will be developing, an opportunity to express interest to collaborate with designated OER leads, and potentially a last chance to suggest an additional funded OER contribution.
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