SINCOE project Information

The SINCOE’s pilot selection and its participants provide a good overview of ongoing HE studies. The target is to have a broad range of pilots from all the categories and different working environments to get good coverage of findings and conclusions. In total, there will be pilots with a minimum of 20 educators (from HEIs) and 600 learners from all partner countries. 

The pilots will cover the following categories:  

– Level of degree: Master, Bachelor, Other (continuous learning MOOC)

– Type of learners (focus group e.g., later year students, newcomers, experienced adults, and different learner individuals – personas) 

-Field of study 

– Course implementation: Hybrid, Online, only part of the course, Other 

Under these categories, there will be different types of learning environments and aims, such as internships, working life studies, thesis, and subject-specific courses, which will be taken into consideration when designing the implementation (story line) of the pilot courses.  

In the “Type of learners” category also the different individual persons need to be somehow considered to cover not just the general types of people, but also the different personal qualities of individuals. In that it is good to make use of the “user person” exercise, which helps to empathize students as persons and not just as groups of certain types of people e.g., later year students, newcomers etc.  

Additionally, based on the results of the need analysis, when operating in an online environment, in the pilots it is important to put special attention to the following areas:  

• Network technologies  
• Students’ motivation  
• Active learning methods  
• Atmosphere  
• Uniformity of etiquettes & online standards  
• Individual factors 

Moreover, detailed test focuses of the pilots (development areas) will be selected on the basis of the main results of the need analysis, listed below. There can be several test focuses (development areas) in one pilot. 

1. Accepting and adapting to the new methods and (learning) strategies of online education (teachers and students)  

2. Understanding the significance of innovation competences and motivate to use them in online teaching and learning (teachers and students)   

3. Updating the skill requirements and support to achieve new (digital) competences and skills (teachers and students)   

4. Activating learning and teaching methods to involve and motivate students  

5. Efficient assessment methods and tools to involve and motivate students  

6. Creating interactive and friendly atmosphere  

7. Comprehensive course designing to integrate innovation competences (or dimensions) efficiently into online implementation taking into account different target groups (fields, young/old students, different learners)  

8. Efficient technical solutions, e.g., equal technical conditions, improving technical usability and learning analytic possibilities of (the FINCODA Assessment) tools 

All the pilots can be found in here: Sincoe_Master_pilotplan011122.xlsx