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- QuILL: Quality in Language LearningPublication . Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Chumbo, Isabel; Gonçalves, Vitor; Martins, Cláudia; Dotras Bravo, Alexia; Alves, Ana M.The European project QuILL – Quality in Language Learning – is coordinated by Pixel-Italy in cooperation with the project applicant and scientific coordinator, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB), Portugal, and funded by the Erasmus+ programme, KA2 – Strategic Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness. It intends to provide language teachers, language learners and education stakeholders with quality open educational teaching resources (OER), based on quality criteria validated in real teaching and learning contexts. It also aims to train language teachers with relevant digital tools, information and methodologies that will support them in their teaching. The QuILL project underlies three major intellectual outputs: 1. the creation of a database of on-line open educational resources (OER) for language teaching and learning of/in 18 European languages for specific purposes (LSP); 2. the creation of an on-line training package for the identification, use and creation of ICT-based language teaching sources for teaching languages at higher education level; and 3. the creation of a publication analysing the technological potential for language learning in European higher education systems. This paper aims to present the QuILL project, highlighting the three intellectual outputs that seven higher education institutions, members of the project’s consortium, will develop for two years. We shall also focus on the intended project’s results, beneficial not only to the higher education community, but also to everybody who wants to learn LSP in a more autonomous way.
- QuILL: innovation and quality in language learning in higher educationPublication . Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Chumbo, Isabel; Gonçalves, Vitor; Martins, Cláudia; Dotras Bravo, Alexia; Alves, Ana M.The European project QuILL – Quality in Language Learning –, written and coordinated by Pixel-Italy in cooperation with the project applicant and scientific coordinator, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB)-Portugal, is funded by the Erasmus+ programme, KA2 – Strategic Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness. Other partner institutions participating in the project are Vilnius University, Faculty of Philology, (Lithuania); Cuza University of Iaşi, Department of Language Learning, (Romania); University of Bologna (Italy); Károli Gáspár University (Hungary); and Universidad de Cordoba (Spain). QuILL aims to provide language lecturers with the skills to identify, assess, use, and create digital and ICT based language teaching resources, as well as provide decision makers and policy makers with the information and skills to enhance the implementation of digital and ICT based language teaching sources and methods in the higher education systems. Besides the creation of a database of on-line open educational resources (OER) for language teaching and learning of 18 European languages, QuILL will also create an on-line training package for the identification, use and creation of ICT based language teaching sources for teaching languages at higher education level. In addition, it will publish a document aimed at analysing the technological potential for language learning in European higher education systems. The aims of this paper are two-fold. On the one hand, we intend to introduce the project to the higher education community. On the other, underlying the first intellectual output (IO1) – creation of a database of on-line language learning resources –, we aim to present some of the resources collected, assessed and validated by means of case studies, analysing the type of resources, the methods suggested and applied in the learning-teaching context, highlighting their relevance within the project’s goals. Therefore, we shall attempt to reach some conclusions regarding this innovative and far-reaching process of identification and validation of teaching resources by pointing out their benefits, as well as shortcomings, and their importance in the higher education teaching-learning language context. Not only will it benefit the lecturers, because they will have a wide variety of OER teaching resources available to be used in class, but also the students who can use the resources to learn the selected language in a rather autonomous way.
- International Networking: the case of the European project QuILLPublication . Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Chumbo, Isabel; Gonçalves, Vitor; Martins, Cláudia; Dotras Bravo, Alexia; Alves, Ana M.In our day and age, collaborative work is of the utmost importance for the development of research projects as well as the establishment of solid networks in a myriad of knowledge areas. It was in this context that the European project QuILL – Quality in Language Learning – saw its first light. Written and coordinated by Pixel-Italy in cooperation with the project applicant and scientific coordinator, the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Portugal), it is funded by the Erasmus+ programme, KA2 – Strategic Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness. The partner institutions in the project are as follows: Vilnius University, Faculty of Philology, (Lithuania); Cuza University of Iaşi, Department of Language Learning, (Romania); University of Bologna (Italy); Károli Gáspár University (Hungary); and Universidad de Cordoba (Spain). The first intellectual output (IO) of our international project was achieved, that is the collection of online open educational resources, which enabled us already to put an open-access database together in 18 European languages. This IO followed a collaborative approach, through the interaction among the partners, but also through their multilingual and multicultural teams that oversaw the assessment and validation of these resources by means of case studies, the analysis of the type of resources, the methods suggested, and their application in real learning-teaching contexts. Guided by the same collaboration input, the second IO for QuILL consists in the creation an on-line training package for the identification, use and creation of digital-based language teaching and learning sources for teaching languages at higher education level. Regarding the third IO, we intend to publish a document that seeks to highlight and analyse the technological potential for language learning in European higher education systems. Our aim with this paper is not only to reflect on the outputs already achieved or under development and their added value for an increasingly technological education, but also on the strengths and shortcomings of international collaboration, of which QuILL will be a case in point.
- The QuILL project: digital technology and languages for specific purposes in HEPublication . Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Chumbo, Isabel; Gonçalves, Vitor; Martins, Cláudia; Dotras Bravo, Alexia; Alves, Ana M.The European project QuILL – Quality in Language Learning – coordinated by Pixel-Italy in cooperation with the project applicant and scientific coordinator, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB), Portugal, was approved within the Erasmus+ programme call KA2 – Strategic Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness and it includes 5 other European partners. Its overall aim is to foster digital education promptness in the context of higher education. On the one hand, it intends to provide higher education lecturers teaching languages for specific purposes with digital technologies-based teaching resources to make them aware of the potentialities available online and freely accessible, supporting them in their teaching. At the same time, language lecturers develop their and the students’ digital competence. On the other, education stakeholders will also be called for action due to their strategic and active role in implementing major changes in the education area. By showcasing the QuILL portal, where 360 resources assessed and validated are already available, we shall present the results achieved so far as well as explain the other two intellectual outputs of the project. Lecturers who tested the resources have already proven the relevance of the project in the field of not only LSP but also as a means to guide and teach autonomous learners wanting to improve their language skills in the 18 languages the project focuses on.