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A strong digital skillset is considered an essential part of a contemporary education. However, even in 2020, a digital gender gap exists and is strongly felt by women from migrant/refugee backgrounds. The digital gender gap is most acute among migrant/refugees who, as both migrants and women face a double disadvantage that is consistently confirmed by research.” Barriers include the disruption that migration poses to their learning process, cultural gender stereotypes as to the role of women, and discrimination (conscious and unconscious) that limits access to education.Yet, women that migrate are more likely than men to have tertiary degrees, and so while the obstacles are significant, improved digital skills could have a greater effect on their ability to integrate, especially in the labour market, but also as active citizens in society.“Include Her” will enable Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to improve the provision of digital skills’ education for women from migrant backgrounds through continuing or outreach education.The Include Her project is therefore focused on the development and mainstreaming of an innovative approach to empower female migrants in higher education to attain higher levels of digital competence. Based on the recognition of gender differences in motivation and engagement with digital technology, our resources will better equip HEIs in all participating countries to improve the digital skills of migrant women, helping redress the gender imbalance in the digital sphere.The first tangible results of the project will be the intellectual outputs which will be used by HEIs in their programmes with female migrants: a.IO1 DIGITAL ROUTE MAP. This interactive, online tool will present indicators of digital competences in easy-to-understand language with clear illustrations, thus helping Migrant women to identify their current level of digital competence in each of the five DigComp areas. Educators will be able to use the tool in online and blended formats, and results will be presented visually. As a result, participants can acknowledge their relative strengths and weaknesses and thus understand their “path” to improved digital competence, and teachers and educators can create a path through the subsequent resources that tailors their activities to suit groups’ specific needs. b.IO2 DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES. These will be a focused yet flexible set of OERs which adapt existing best practice in digital skills education for use with migrant women in continuing education settings. Resources will include pedagogic guides to help teachers and educators use innovative approaches (Experiential Learning, Collaborative learning, PBL, visual approaches) and ready-to-use activities which reflect women’s’ areas of interest, and are thus more likely to ensure higher engagement and completion rates.c.IO3 MOOC. This output will enable the OERS to be transferred into a state-of-the-art open access online course to allow women migrants to develop their digital skills in a friendly but effective digital environment. It enables the project to achieve even greater scalability and wider impact because of the unlimited access and participant led learning. Through our rigorous user testing and dissemination process, the project will then produce the following results:a. At least 228 women from migrant/refugee backgrounds will participate during the project as learners (and testers of the materials). 120 will test IO1, 60 will test IO3 and 48 will be involved as classroom learners in the testing of IO2. b. At least 30 teachers, especially from continuing / outreach education, will participate by using IO2 and IO3 (12 and 18 respectively), Over time and as the outputs continue to be introduced and implemented in participating countries and further afield, the project will create lasting impact:a. Hundreds of teachers will develop their digital pedagogic skills in line with the broad competence approach of DigComp and will increase their capacity for addressing diversity in the classroom.b. HEIs will be better equipped to offer inclusive continuing education and to become Digitally Competent Organisations, providing higher quality education and support for the female migrants they serve. c. Thousands of female migrants will be more motivated to engage proactively with digital skills training. They will become more digitally competent, helping them access improved employment opportunities and accelerating their overall integration.d. Partner organizations will better fulfil their missions, and will use the new knowledge and collaborative networks they have acquired to fuel further innovation in the field of digital wellbeing and skills for students, especially female migrants.
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