Nov
13
The BEACONING team will showcase our project (one of the 16 EU-Funded projects) at the European Parliament in Brussels on November 19-22nd 2018! This exhibition is hosted by MEP Eva Kaili, Digital Agenda,Transatlantic Relations and Foreign Affairs.
The exhibition will be visited by the Members of the European Parliament, their assistants and other staff working in the Parliament (about 8000 people work in the Parliament). It is a great honour for the project to be involved and to demonstrate the outcomes of the project that is being supported by the Commission, aligning with the exhibition’s aim to showcase how the EU is pushing for the benefit of society using tech, science and arts.
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Nov
13
Coventry University, together with a few more of the BEACONING project partners has been invited and will take part in the CNECT Digital Education Stakeholder meeting on the 10th and 11th of December, 2018 in Luxemburg.
The purpose of the event is to reflect on the current results of the ongoing H2020 projects in the field of Digital Education, on what has been achieved, what not, what were the lessons learned, where are the gaps and the promising elements. Further, in a brainstorming session, we would like to explore and collect ideas on possible research & innovation as well as large-scale deployment directions for digital education in the future. The ideas collected in a series of different stakeholder events such as this will feed our work on the upcoming Digital Europe Programme (focusing on take up/roll out) and the Horizon Europe Programme focusing on R&I .
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Nov
13
PlayVisit, an spinoff from the BEACONING Project allows users to get excited visiting cultural places by interacting with adventures in which the discovery of the real world through the challenge guides a memorable experience to learn about and learn about history, culture and heritage.
PlayVisit has been presented in Tarragona at the 1st Smart City Heritage EU Congress as a leading tool for the promotion and dissemination of culture, cultural tourism and heritage through gamification and geolocation and Big Data technologies. Our co-founder Pau Yanez participated on October 25th in this congress full of interesting content related to Smart Cities and on how information and communication technologies can help the promotion of historical heritage to bring it closer to all citizens.
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Nov
8
At this year’s edition of National and International Conference on Virtual Learning, held in the historical city of Alba Iulia, SIVECO Romania presented Beaconing, the eLearning platform that creates new models and practices of teaching and learning.
Beaconing is a teaching and digital learning platform that integrates technologies, pedagogical and social perspectives, using pervasive, context-aware and gamified approaches. The innovative project was presented in front of an audience made of the most important actors in education, in the historical halls of the “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia.
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Nov
2
These teachers are busy discussing at the BEACONING stand that we set up for this year’s School Managers’ Forum.
They are discussing about using game-based learning for adults; in particular, new teachers who are trying to adapt to a new school. BEACONING location-based gaming can engage these new recruits to get familiar with the school campus, and facilities that they may use in their respective courses. In fact, one of our pilot schools in Ankara/Turkey has already done just that. After using BEACONING with their students, the school management also decided to run a BEACONING location-based game for the starting week of the school year. This application not only helps the orientation of new teachers, but also makes them familiar with BEACONING so that they can use it in their classes with students. Making teachers effectively try their own medicine is a good idea.
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