WE-COLLAB
Erasmus+ project „Collaborative and transparent use of Learning Analytics in online university courses, valuing the learner role and exploiting advanced monitoring equipment" („WE-COLLAB") is funded under the Erasmus + program, key measure 2 - strategic partnerships.
The Project lasts for a total of 36 months, starting from February, 2022 and ending in January, 2025.
In addition to University of Rijeka, Faculty of Economics and Business, there are five more academic partners (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; National Technical University of Athens, Greece; Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania; Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy and; Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain) along with two Italian companies, Brain Signs and Link.
The total value of a project is 396.352 EUR.
Project’s purpose
WE-COLLAB addresses innovative practices in the digital age. Priority is given to activities promoting innovative methods and tools for learning and teaching as drivers of improving digital transformation. By introducing learning analytics as well as neuromarketing tools and methods, the project will contribute to innovativeness in higher education. All involved partners, as well as other stakeholders, will have the opportunity to learn about these tools through the intellectual results of the project that will be publicly available and thus create a system of support for upgrading social values and encourage inclusion and internationalization.
With the aim of bridging the gap of insufficient student engagement in online learning, project activities and defined results are derived from focusing on: selecting and exchanging different learning materials, use of sophisticated analysis as learning analytics, eye tracking and neurophysiological responses, and, based on previous analysis, best practices guidelines providing.
Expected outcomes:
Expected Project results are divided into 6 results, although separated, they are connected in a way of supporting each other, ensuring a strengthening consortium and delivering value. Results include the following. Firstly, an e-learning platform and learning analytics infrastructure will be provided. This represents the bases for continuing with the Project. The Project will continue with the second result which is focused on collaboration, networking and peer-learning activities. Different online learning materials and approaches will be collected and exchanged, and all included partners will be able to use them for further analysis and use, as well as target groups (students and teachers) and stakeholders.
As the Project is focused on innovative approaches, third result learning/teaching/training material refers to learning analytics and learning how to use it appropriately to provide benefits for students and teachers. The fourth one is focused on forming a training scheme with the purpose of sharing knowledge and ensuring sustainability. Through this result it will be analyzed how to use eye tracking for gathering insights about students' reactions to different learning materials and approaches.
To gather even more precise insights, the eye tracking approach will be upgraded with analysis providing insights about individuals’ neurophysiological data to find out what kind of learning materials and approaches are more engaging to the students. Finally, the sixth result will include best practices guidelines/report uniting findings from all previous results and providing concrete examples of materials and approaches for upgrading online learning.
The project managers are Matia Torbarina, MPsych. and Assistant Professor Maja Vujičić, PhD.
The project coordination also involves Ema Murić, LLM.
