Guía metodológica para el uso exitoso de las tecnologías digitales en la educaciónmejora del aprendizaje a través de proyectos educativos europeos

Abstract

Society is constantly evolving, and the irruption of new technologies in personal and work life is unstoppable. This requires dedicating efforts to train people to have the necessary skills to live healthily and autonomously, in addition to obtaining jobs that make them feel useful and have the means and resources to cover at least their basic needs. To achieve this objective, the promotion of learning throughout life is essential since social and technological changes require continuous training and adaptation to new jobs and contexts. In addition, it is critical to develop dynamic learning environments that can adapt to the diversity of training needs. In this sense, electronic learning environments provide flexibility and ease to adapt them to the needs of those who use them. Contributing to developing robust educational systems and projects using technologies is a current and future reality in teaching-learning processes. The new educational methodologies and laws seek a more competent approach so that students or trainees can learn how to solve everyday problems they may encounter in their personal and work lives. In all this system there is a crucial piece, it is useless to create very attractive environments if there are no experts in the subjects in which the training will be carried out. These expert people must undoubtedly be teachers or training staff. This staff needs to be prepared to create content and projects using technologies to helpfully reach their students and trainees, with an impact on learning and with the possibility of adapting them to the diversity of the environment. In order to have trained teachers or training personnel, it is extremely important to invest efforts in providing them with resources and continuous training. One of the beneficial mechanisms for this teacher training is providing them with recommendations, guidelines, guides, and examples of good practices that can serve as inspiration. In the field of inspiring experiences, exploring European educational projects, specifically those carried out within the framework of Erasmus+, is of great interest. This type of project allows the carrying out of initiatives that respond to the needs of various educational and related institutions that wish to collaborate to find solutions. They represent an enrichment since they seek to work towards common goals in institutions from different countries, facilitating the dissemination and transfer of knowledge not only in those participating in the project but also in others with whom they are related. The doctoral thesis presented in this document arises from the need that this objective entails. The research consists of analyzing Erasmus+ projects classified as good practice to find out what makes these projects successful and how they have improved the teaching and learning processes. The final goal is to identify relevant factors for developing educational projects with efficient use of technology so that a methodological proposal can be made to guide teachers in designing projects with impact. The main aspects identified as essential for the success of any project include cooperation and collaboration between institutions and related actors, meeting real needs, dealing with innovative and current issues and long-term projection, the implementation of the project in the institutions, and a good use of digital tools to guarantee both dissemination and attention to diversity and impact. The development of the document is divided into the introduction, two main blocks: one of theoretical argumentation focused on analyzing the starting situation, hypothesis, analysis of the state of the art and research planning and another of empirical argumentation with the applied methodology, the results, discussion and interpretation, and methodological proposal; conclusions and annexes. As a final result, a methodology for the design of educational projects is proposed.