Completed project · 2016–2018
STRategIes for the Digital Education
Problem statement: Digitalisation affects every economic and social sector and increasingly schools. Yet uncertainty remains about how schools can reshape their provision and profile in response to technological change, including teaching, external communications, work-related communication and organisational processes. STRIDE's objectives were: (1) To develop and validate open-access learning provision enabling school stakeholders to devise systematic, institution-specific digitalisation strategies; (2) To create an online environment for sharing school digitalisation strategies and experiences.
Research question: The guiding questions concerned participating schools' requirements and needs and how the two forms of provision could address them while preserving the individuality of each school's strategy.
Research approach: The research approach combined a theory-based, cross-country quantitative needs assessment with subsequent validation through national focus groups. Participating schools contributed to developing the learning prototype. A pilot was evaluated and the concept revised.
Results: The project's outputs were:
A self-directed online course of ten modules: five covering ICT foundations and five guiding schools step by step through digitalisation strategy development, provided as OER;
An online community for schools to share strategies and experiences. Both outputs are available in six languages on the project website.