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The European project entitled STEAM-Active was written and coordinated by the project applicant and scientific coordinator University of the Basque Country, based in Leoia (Spain) in cooperation with Pixel, also supporting the coordination of the planning process. The project was funded by the European Commission in the framework of the Erasmus+ Programme, KA2 - Cooperation Partnerships in Higher Education. The project aims to improve engineering teachers’ knowledge and experience using innovative educational methodologies such as STEAM and to better students’ performance in engineering-related social issues by promoting their ability to integrate different disciplines in solving a problem.
The purpose of the project is to provide engineering lecturers at HE level with the skills to implement active teaching methodologies and project based learning for STEAM via the creation of an online course; the collection of methodologies and the production of teaching sources.
Funding Programme
Erasmus+ Programme, KA2 - Cooperation Partnerships in Higher Education
Theme
STEM
Target group
Higher Education, School Education
Project Reference
2021-1-ES01-KA220-HED-000032107
Date
01-12-2021 | 01-06-2024
Role of Pixel
Partner
Project Details
Project Title
Supporting engineering lecturers to use innovative teaching methodologies and develop students competencies to meet the labor market needs
Context
Technological evolution generates the necessity for innovation in companies. Education needs to produce meaningful learning, developing competencies that prepare university students to meet market needs.
Another need in the engineering field is the fight against gender inequality both in higher education and in companies.
Objectives
The purposes of STEAM-Active project are:
- Improve the capacity of the higher education educational offer in engineering of new learning and teaching methods;
- Tackle engineering student underachievement and gender inequality;
- Provide university lecturers with STEAM based methodological approaches and teaching tools;
- Provide universities with consistent, re-usable and up-scalable teaching-Learning sequences based on the STEAM methods.
Target Group
The main target groups of the project are:
- University engineering teachers
- Engineering Students
Results
- A Protocol for Teachers that will illustrate the framework of the STEAM project design methodology with active teaching methodologies;
- An E-learning based training course for engineering teachers that will include a theoretical description of STEAM approaches and of the implementation active methodologies;
- A Collection of STEAM based Teaching-Learning Sequences that allow teachers to guide students in applying a project based learning methodology to solve socio-scientific-technological situations.