The online training course “Thinking Digital in Joint Programmes” was designed as a professional development course for those who are interested in exploring how to successfully integrate digital environments and innovative pedagogies within Joint Programmes at their institutions. The innovative feature of the training consists in its experiential, connectivist and project-based approach (learn-by-doing), whereby expert trainers from the GO-DIJIP partner institutions accompanied participants through tasks and activities. 

By completing the Training Course “Thinking Digital in Joint Programmes”, participants were expected to:

• Understand how to organise online teaching, learning and cooperation according to acknowledged and reputable models.
• Be able to adapt your practices to online contexts by applying core learning design principles
• Understand how virtual collaborative opportunities, including Virtual Exchange, can fit into JP activities/courses  
• Understand the value of Intercultural Competences for JP students 
• Understand how knowledge and skills can complement each other
• Understand the importance for JP students of being able to work in a virtual multidisciplinary and intercultural setting
• Understand how to strategically promote JPs using digital tools 

Below you can find some open-access materials used during the course edition of 2022 and the recordings of each module synchronous session.  

Module 1: BROADEN your digital skills - virtual as an opportunity to re-design JPs

Coordinator: University of Bergen

• Core principles in Learning Design: introduction to learner-centred teaching; handbook “Self-Directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning” by L. Dee Fink
• Online learning and teaching: the 5 stage model; list of available online courses about online teaching and learning (Blended and Online Learning Design – UCL; How to Learn Online: Getting Started – Open University; Learning Online: Communicating and Collaborating – University of Leeds)
• Worksheet for JP Administrators
• Worksheet for JP Teachers
• Multimedia learning: Multimedia Learning Theory; literature about designing multimedia for education (How to use Mayer’s 12 Principles of Multimedia; How to create Educational Videos: From watching passively to learning actively); Template for ideas and storyboard
• Digital Tools and Tips for Online Learning and Teaching: 10 Tips for Effective Online Teaching; 10 Tips for Effective Online Teaching; Design for Online Learning Toolkit; The Tech Tools Google Sheet (a resource listing all sorts of digital tools for pedagogical use)
• Synchronous session recording: presentations of sketches, feedback and discussion. Individual work - reflection and elaborated sketching

Module 2: EXPLORE innovative learning & teaching methodologies - an introduction to Virtual Exchange

Coordinator: UNICollaboration

• What is Virtual Exchange: definition of Virtual Exchange and its terminology; definition and examples of “ready-made” VE (Soliya and The Sharing Perspectives Foundation) and 'Co-designed' VE 
• Integration and accreditation of Virtual Exchange in Higher Education Institutions: introduction to the different options for integrating Virtual Exchange into a Higher Education curriculum
• Worksheet
• Synchronous session recording

Module 3: MARKET JPS using digital tools 

Coordinator: University of Padua

• Case studies: analysis of 4 case studies corresponding to 4 joint programmes models (TRIUM Global Executive MBA; Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree; Master 1-2 in French Law + Foreign Law; Master Programme ALGANT) with a specific focus on the structure, the proposition value and the potential audience of a marketing campaign for these programmes
• Recruitment Tools
• Digital Tools: a list of digital tools used by UniPd and EMA Association to promote university programmes (Video Testimonials; Instagram Takeover; Instagram Live; Open Weeks; Country Representatives wall, Programme Representatives wall, EMA Podcast …)
• Synchronous session recording: discussion about the 4 case studies (participants discussed Value proposition, type of product - business model, type of audience for every single case study); presentation of the Marketing Strategies for Universities and Joint Programmes

Module 4: INTEGRATE digital environments and pedagogical innovations in JPs 

Coordinator: AgroParisTech

• Example of how to transform face-to-face food engineering labs into an on-line activity: video testimonial and read the abstract of an article on how a team of teachers at AgroParisTech, supported by instructional designers, have succeeded in redesigning a course based on laboratory work
• Adapt an intercultural environment appropriately in a digital setting: video testimonial on how the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master FIPDes has adapted and adjusted the inductive module based on interaction by creating different online activities such as thesis highlights, Awards Ceremony, virtual visits, posters and oral sessions.
• Redesigning a "Technical heritage territory of industry" Erasmus Mundus course: video showing a sample of a virtual visit of an industrial heritage site simulating a physical visit, with metadata coming from archives (text, video etc.).
• Synchronous session recording: discussion on 2 main topics: Designing & delivering online intercultural training programmes for groups of international students; transforming face-to-face food process engineering labs into online activities