CRISS is an educational innovation project that provides a solution to the great challenges of education in Europe and addresses the strong demand for user-driven innovation in digital learning. One of these challenges is to give teachers and students the opportunity to have the digital skills and competences needed in the academic and professional fields of the 21st century, including the demand for the use of ICT to promote more innovative teaching and more creative learning. To this end, CRISS, that is completely aligned with the new DIGCOMP framework, is offering a novel approach that will cover the need of a complete model and ecosystem for the development, evaluation and accreditation of the digital competences (understood as a wider approach than just to evaluate digital skills as other existing models are providing) including through new forms of learning experiences making use of mixed reality and location-based approaches made accessible to non programmers.
The challenges CRISS aims to confront using the innovation action are to:
Provide an innovation infrastructure for personalized learning and teaching of digital competences to support and motivate teachers and students.
Work towards the implementation of digital competences acquisition, evaluation and certification in European primary and secondary schools.
Provide open, interoperable components for a flexible, scalable and cost-effective cloud-based digital learning infrastructure.
The overall objective of CRISS is to develop and pilot, with more than 490 schools including 25.400 students and 2.290 teachers around Europe, a flexible, scalable and cost-effective cloud-based digital learning ecosystem to deliver a user-driven and adaptive technological solutions that allows the guided acquisition, evaluation and certification of digital competence in primary and secondary education (students and teachers) also scalable to other educational levels.
More specifically, CRISS aims to:
- develop a standard methodological framework for Digital Competences acquisition, evaluation and certification of students of primary and secondary school.
- design and develop an innovative and open adaptive learning infrastructure for the acquisition, evaluation and certification of digital competences on the basis of the integration of several existing solutions and further development of new components.
- offer the adaptive learning ecosystem as a scalable, secure and cost-effective cloud based digital learning infrastructure.
- evaluate and validate the CRISS novel learning infrastructure (system evaluation and user evaluation) demonstrating the efficiency and success of the new adaptive learning environments and the use of edge learning technologies for tutors and students in Europe with more than 25.400 secondary students.
- identify strategies for scaling and achieve bigger impacts of the results obtained.
- promote and provide to different public targets a better understanding of digital competences and how CRISS project outcomes overcome current challenges.
