Connecting people all over the planet
DigiEduHack going global
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Russia, Canada, India, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Turkey, most European countries and many more - in all of these places, simultaneous DigiEduHack events will be arranged around the 3 October 2019.
The aim is to bring together a total number of 50 organizations hosting their own DigiEduHack, with more than 2,500 participants all over the planet creating innovative solutions to the biggest challenges that we are facing today, in the field of digital education.
The initiative for the DigiEduHack in Europe and beyond, first came from the European Commission:
"We want to improve the use of technologies for teaching and learning, ensuring that everyone has the necessary digital skills and competences, exploiting data to the benefit of education. The Digital Education Hackathon is an innovative and great opportunity to reflect on where we stand and collect actionable ideas ensuring that digital technologies are used at their best", says Begona Arano, Head of Unit, Innovation and EIT, The Commission's Directorate General for Education and Culture (DG EAC).
DG EAC Project Managers Veronica Mobilio and Simona Petkova, are both very excited about the possible outcomes of the events, since the key learning points will be used as a basis for the new Digital Education Action Plan for Europe:
"This will be the first hackathon organised by the Commission on the future of education in a digital age, a topic that is highly relevant to all of us, young and older people, wherever we are located and whatever we are doing for a living."
Read more here
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Curious about the DigiEduHack hosts?
Of all our hosts, more than 50 % are universities. The other half are
- NGO's
- Research and innovation laboratories
- Companies
- Schools
- Consultancy agencies
- Associations and foundations
- Learning centers
If you want to have a closer look at the list of the DigiEduHack 2019 hosts, that have registered so far, click on the button below. Maybe you could collaborate if you are in the same city or country, or maybe digitally crossing country boarders?.
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Solving the biggest challenges in digital learning
How can we use new innovative tools for making online learning exciting? How predict student performance to give customised feedback? And how help students succeed in a digital world? Or how could digital education contribute to the acceptability of renewable energy technologies?
That is just a small sample of all the exciting challenges that will be solved in different locations during DigiEduHack 2019. Several DigiEduHack hosts have already defined their challenges and set up their own event websites, to be ready to promote their events to participants.
On the Challenges page on the DigiEduHack website, you can access all the challenges that have been uploaded so far: https://digieduhack.com/en/challenges
Haven't you yet set up the event website for your challenge? Now is the time! If you need help, don't hesitate to reach out: charlotta.jarf@aalto.fi
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Need help planning your event?
Check out our DigiEduHack Event Planning Guide, which offers you all the help you need. It gives you guidance in how to target participants, how to set the agenda for your DigiEduHack, while planning for the ideation and team formation. It also help you plan the logistics, such as finding a venue or ordering food for your participants. In the guide, you can additionally find all the practical information you need on how to build your crew of moderators, mentors, judges, volunteers and so on.
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Marketing toolkit available for all the hosts
As a DigiEduHack host, you can start promoting your event instantly when you have set up your event website. Then it is time to start using the marketing toolkit, that you can find our Trello online platform. There you can find logos, photos, fonts, poster and rollup templates, and soon also a social media calendar and toolkit. If you need help modifying the templates for posters and rollups, please contact us!
Next week we will also publish a DigiEduHack video, that can be shared in all your channels for recruiting participants for your events. This video will also be shown at the open ceremony of each DigiEduHack event all over the globe - we will keep you posted on that later on! We will also soon share blog article templates and press release templates.
Do you need ads for TV screens or help with modifying the templates? Please let us know and we will help you: charlotta.jarf@aalto.fi
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Check out the eLearning courses to prepare for DigiEduhack!
To help you get ready for the Hack, we have prepared a range of online eLearning courses. You will find a hand-picked selection of learning nuggets both for hosts and participants. You can learn about the different challenge areas, but also learn how to generate ideas and pitch potential solutions.
After completing the courses, you'll be able to:
- Discuss how digital transformation is affecting education
- Know more about the key challenges associated with the future of education in a digital age
- Select and apply tools and techniques for idea generation and development
- Plan, prepare and pitch your ideas for tackling digital education challenges.
Check out the courses and remember to have your participants use them as well!
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The DigiEduHack team, Charlotta and Ida, is based at Aalto University in Finland.
Ida Andersson
DigiEduHack Project Manager
Ida Andersson has been working with education policy and education technology for the past 20 years in big corporations. She is considering education and the development of learning as vital to strive for a better future for all.
Ida is seeing a lot of potential in the upcoming DigiEduHack events:
"The DigiEduHack is an opportunity to bind together different stakeholders from different regions to work on common challenges. It will be magnificent to see how this first (hopefully just one of many) DigiEduHacks will bring us closer to solving issues in the complex world of education and technology."
Contact her at ida.m.andersson@aalto.fi
Charlotta Järf
DigiEduHack Communications Manager
Charlotta is a former TV & Radio Journalist, with 10 years of experience in the field of Communications and Marketing. Charlotta has studied in France, lived and worked in Switzerland, and is currently leading the Communications and Marketing activities for DigiEduHack. She speaks English, French, Swedish, Finnish and Italian fluently.
Charlotta is excited about the upcoming DigiEduHack:
"This is a fantastic opportunity connecting people all over the world with one mutual interest - to co-design the future of digital education. In this large world-wide community, there is an endless amount of powerful knowledge and a range of ideas that are just waiting to be developed and implemented into innovative solutions, and then shared with the world."
Contact her at charlotta.jarf@aalto.fi
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Also remember to use our hashtag as much as possible:
#DigiEduHack
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DigiEduHack is powered by EIT Climate KIC, Aalto University and the European Commission. It is an activity supported by EIT, a body of the European Union.
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