FreeED: A Framework for Efficient and Engaging Hybrid Education in Lower-Secondary Schools

FreeEd is an Erasmus+ School Education project that aims:

To define a framework for hybrid education (combining classroom learning with web-based distance learning) in lower secondary schools,

To collect and share best technology-supported education practices in the project countries: Austria, Estonia, Finland and Romania,
to help lower secondary teachers develop their reflective practice and their digital and pedagogical competencies,

To provide recommendations to education technology developers.
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Table of contents

Project duration
Core fields of research
Learning, teaching and interaction
Research areas
Learning and interaction
Co-operation
The group will be constructed based on the local interests, the national training needs and the national dissemination possibilities.
Faculty
Faculty of Education and Psychology
Funding
European Union
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union

Project description

Our goal is to help lower secondary schools embrace the challenges emerging from the current shift from mostly classroom-based education to a more flexible, technology-supported learning environment, re-think learning spaces and to safeguard the well-being of children and their teachers.

Project team

External members

Anssi Lindell

Senior Lecturer
Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, Faculty of Education and Psychology

Janne Fagerlund

Postdoctoral researcher
Finnish Institute for Educational Research

Jukka Sinnemäki

Teacher
Jyväskylä Christian school

Kati Karvonen

Head of Institute (Institute of Educational Leadership)
Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, Faculty of Education and Psychology

Päivi Häkkinen

Vice-director, Professor
Finnish Institute for Educational Research