IO1: A European Framework for Digital Cultural Heritage in Compulsory Education (Cherished Framework)
This intellectual output presents a European Framework for Integration of Digital cultural heritage in compulsory secondary education in Europe. It aims to help Member States in their efforts to promote the reuse of cultural heritage digital resources in mainstream education. This has been frequently reported as an identified need lacking, in terms of cultural heritage education. The aim of the intellectual output is to provide a guide in the form of a manual, with specifications of the Pedagogical Framework, including cultural competences required by educators to teach in an inclusive manner. The framework is intended to support national, regional and local efforts in fostering digital cultural heritage in compulsory education, focusing on inclusive digital learning, by offering a common frame of reference, with a common language and logic.
IO 2: E-Learning Platform
This intellectual output presents a European Framework for Integration of Digital cultural heritage in compulsory secondary education in Europe. It aims to help Member States in their efforts to promote the reuse of cultural heritage digital resources in mainstream education. This has been frequently reported as an identified need lacking, in terms of cultural heritage education. The aim of the intellectual output is to provide a guide in the form of a manual, with specifications of the Pedagogical Framework, including cultural competences required by educators to teach in an inclusive manner. The framework is intended to support national, regional and local efforts in fostering digital cultural heritage in compulsory education, focusing on inclusive digital learning, by offering a common frame of reference, with a common language and logic.
IO3: CHERISHED Teacher Training Programme
This Output addresses a stated challenge in teachers’ engagement with digital online resources for their lessons, including a lack of confidence and time to retrieve appropriate resources. The Teacher Training Programme, will follow the Cross-Country Analysis (04) to enhance teachers’ capability in mainstreaming digital cultural heritage for their lessons. To tackle this challenge, and given the busy schedule of these professionals, microlearning is the selected approach to develop the programme.
IO4: Cross-country curriculum analysis and recommendations report
The primary objective of O4 is to provide to cultural heritage institutions and with an overview of national and transnational secondary educational curriculum units for subjects taught, so as to digitise their colelctions with relevant resources for reuse in education. In order to help educators use digital collections it is important to know what they are required to teach to their students. Information about curricula and exams is always publicly available because educators need access to this information to prepare their lessons. From a content and pedagogical point of view, 04 will ensure that the activities and resources produced in CHERISHED, can be seamlessly integrated into the curricula of European countries.
IO5: Cherished self-assessment tool
A basic premise for the CHERISHED project to be effective in its goals, is to consider the challenges in the field, and the needs of the target groups. The project will develop a self- assessment tool, drawing on the principles in the FRAMEWORK (O1).
Increasing evidence points out that digital education policies are most successful when it is possible to ensure the teachers’ buy in, participation, engagement and, ownership of the process (Conrads, Rasmussen, Winters, Geniet, & Langer, 2017).
