Abstract:

In this communication we want to present the methodology Learning by doing, learning helping, created within the framework of the Erasmus Plus project “LEARNING HELPING: INCLUSIVE EDUCATION OF ADULTS THROUGH VIRTUAL VOLUNTEERING”. This methodology combines the two previous pedagogical strategies (Learning by doing and Peer tutoring), but from an innovative perspective based on ICTs and digital media. It also places the work in digital social volunteering as the framework of the real experiences through which the learning process is structured.

The Learning Helping methodology generates structured learning itineraries through work/learning sessions where students must successfully and successively complete a series of activities based on digital volunteering. These training itineraries are carried out autonomously by training pairs of two students with complementary needs and knowledge (usually an adult born in Europe and a migrant or refugee), and give rise to a peer learning process reinforced by the tutoring of a teacher. This is why students must be matched according to their specific.

This methodology is implemented in the Virtual Volunteering Lab: Learning by doing, Learning helping (VVL). This virtual tool, created within the framework of this Erasmus Plus project, is a virtual environment to develop learning through an active volunteering process at the European level, providing these adult students a first experience in the third sector that immerses them in the path of volunteering or even employability in it.

Learning takes place through a volunteering program in collaboration between adult education centers and NGOs. In this digital space, adult students themselves have to carry out digital volunteering activities that develop their educational skills through peer learning, establishing a collaborative work that helps those entities work to build a better world.

The training process does not contain traditional training materials in itself, which are actually abundant online, but requires the students themselves to search for the necessary information to carry out the volunteering actions requested in the digital environment, while collaborating with other students in other countries with very different life situations, to achieve their own goals.

Acknowledgements:
This work has been funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme within the 2020-1-ES01-KA204-082397 project; Spanish Service for the Internationalization of Education (SEPIE).

Keywords:

Learning, volunteering, digital.