Abstract:

This paper presents the project for the implementation of the Virtual Learning Environment for non-university education in Andalusia, a Spanish region with more than 8 million inhabitants, which educational community consists of over 2 million people (teachers, students and families), in a very heterogeneous scenario, encompassing geography, socio-economy and technology.

The project is lead by the General Directorate for Teacher Training and Educational Innovation (DGFPIE) of the Ministry of Education and Sports (CED), and its main objective is the consolidation of the Digital Educational Transformation in Andalusia, focusing on the optimisation of services to grant the best use of the resources.

The project’ strategy is fully aligned with the EU’s Digital Education Action Plan, upon a global, collaborative and inclusive approach, making emphasis in granting universal access to resources and services to all the groups of the Educational Community.

Once high connectivity is provided to schools, the project is defined around three action lines that consolidate the TDE ecosystem of the DGFPIE:
• Improving the use of digital technology in teaching-learning processes
• Developing digital competencies and skills relevant to the educational community
• Promoting the improvement of school results and reduction of dropout through Big Data (BD), Learning Analytics (LA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The project methodologies cover technological, implementation and dissemination aspects, and consist of adaptations of gap analysis, design thinking, Lean IT, BPM and TOGAF for the definition phase, scrum for the development and ITIL, PMP, OPPM and for services provision and project management. Regarding implementation and dissemination, any new service provided is tested in a piloting phase prior to its go alive, with a defined piloting methodology.

The result, the “Andalusian Education Digital Ecosystem” is a personalized teaching-learning environment that provides access to a digital classroom, integrated with the backoffice management system, which allows class organization and planning, connected with the digital content of publishers and with an open educational resources banks (LOR).
This pedagogical support is complemented with services to promote the digital training of students, families and teachers through a MOOC, MoocEdu, fully aligned with the DigCompX frameworks. A Digital Proficiency Test is included to diagnose the user skills and stablish a starting point, recommending training actions to achieve the defined objectives.
Through this single access point, schools benefit from facilities to collaborate which include a vast community of school blogs and classroom spaces, BlogsAverroes, ever growing to support communication needs for different decision-making bodies within the CED.

AI allows the provision of a Pedagogical Assessment Service, a personalized and contextualized educational reinforcement of the students through recommendations of itineraries, contents, tasks and/or readings adapted to their academic situation, which take into account information related to the characteristics of their teachers, their socioeconomic context and their academic performance, among others.

The project results are measured by means of access and use indicators, which together with the user’s satisfaction, checked by the change management service, establish the conclusions and the basis for the continuous improvement of the TDE ecosystem.

Keywords:

New projects and innovations, APP for education, Identity Management, Learning Analytics, Open Educational Resources, LOR, Digital Education, Collaboration.