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.
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.


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
Project leaders
Project members
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