Departments

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

The aim of VILLAGE is to re-examine the post-pandemic teaching processes and needs of engineering instructors and students for laboratory practice in a multidimensional, multicultural and multidisciplinary context, and to determine roadmaps for new instructional design models in line with the opinions of the stakeholders, to create effective and sustainable instructional models, while developing a pilot virtual lab and its learning materials to test the proposed model. VILLAGE is a joint research and innovation (R&I) project in the context of generating a sustainable learning model for laboratory engineering education considering the new normal and the needs of the instructors with the exchange of staff within partnerships of universities, research infrastructures and SMEs in Europe and beyond, which aims to strengthen inter-sectoral and international collaboration. In general, the existence of some virtual laboratories for engineering education is known, and some variables are effectively used. Beyond the state of the art, this project aims not only to design another virtual lab, but to design a sustainable model for engineering laboratories education based on a multidimensional, multicultural and multidisciplinary analysis.

CONSORTIUM:

Lead partner: EGE University (Turkey)

Project partners:

Emoda (Turkey), Digi Mind Sphere (Italy), SquareDev (Greece), National Intstitute of Chemistry (Slovenia), Eolas S.L (Spain), Azerbajdžanska državna univerza za kmetijstvo (Azerbaijan), Munster Technological (Ireland), Univerza RTU Liepajas (Latvia).

PRESS RELEASE:

The VILLAGE (Virtual Innovative Learning Laboratories for Global Engineering Education) project, implemented by Ege University, within the scope of the Horizon Europe program MSCA call, came into force in March 2023, receiving support for a period of 48 months. Partners of the project are Emoda (Turkey), Digi Mind Sphere (Italy), SquareDev (Greece), National Institute of Chemistry (Slovenia), Eolas S.L (Spain), Azerbaijan State Agriculture University (Azerbaijan), Munster Technological (Ireland), RTU Liepajas University (Latvia). Within the scope of the project, 23 exchanges have been completed so far, and 2 oral presentations at international conferences on the global examination of virtual laboratories in engineering education and 2 international workshops such as "Digital Learning for Engineering Laboratories" and "Instructional Design Models in Engineering Education" have been held.

With the aim of reaching the project research results to a wider audience, the instructional design models database and the score ranking of these models were shared in the Zenodo open access digital archive (https://zenodo.org/communities/villageproject).

The project website has been designed where introductory information about the project and project results are shared up to date (https://www.thevillageproject.eu/).

Within the scope of the VILLAGE project, we aim to re-examining the post-pandemic teaching processes and laboratory applications needs of engineering faculty members and students in a multi-disciplinary, multi-dimensional cultural context, determining road maps for new teaching design models in line with the opinions, developing pilot virtual laboratories and learning materials, and effective and sustainable teaching models.