Project Info and Details

Project Aims

ODLEP project aims to boost the distance educational programs in Greece, Romania, Italy and Serbia. More specifically ODLEP aims at:

Creating an innovative and effective framework for selecting the most suitable instructor for a given group of students for a competent and successful online distance learning program
Recording the context of distance learning with a focus on partners’ countries and all the required characteristics for selecting the most suitable instructor/educator for every online class/course
Establishing a theoretical framework and a procedure for assessing and scoring all aspects of the instructors’ profile
Evaluating desired characteristics for each candidate instructor
Based on the synthesis of the course/class students, the proposed framework will facilitate the ranking of available instructors, based on multicriteria analysis, in order to select the optimum one
Delivering an online platform that will put into practice the ODLEP’s methodological approach for facilitating an effective and successful procedure of selecting instructors/educators
Recording the students’ experience, satisfaction and responses and discussing the results with an emphasis on identifying the best practices
Identifying approaches to improve the instructors’ performance.
Proposing policy recommendations related to the assignment of the proper instructor to a given class

It must be flexible to accommodate for the needs and timetable of the students and educators without compromises to its quality
It must be able to take into account unforeseen situations
It must include the ability to reach remote areas without extreme costs for new infrastructure
It must exploit the advantages of the digital realm and provide immersive learning experiences
It must take into account the preferences of students and educators so that education can move from its traditional style and be rendered to one of personalized learning

The objectives will be achieved through the implementation of the following clusters of activities:

A report on the needs and gaps, along with the characteristics of students and professors, that would assist in forming groups and would maximize the impact of the educational process
A mathematical framework and a platform that matches students with professors, based on sound methodological steps, that will assist in developing classes where personalized education is the norm
Conduction of courses
- Will assist students in achieving their academic goals
- For the professors it will be an opportunity to adapt their lectures in such a way so as to maximize the knowledge they wish to convey
Dissemination and Exploitation of the proposed solution

The ODLEP project will address the issue of personalized education by providing:

A survey of the factors (environmental, geographical, social) that could make personalized education at the tertiary level successful
A mathematical framework that will take into account those cultural and personal characteristics and cluster together students and educators with the same characteristics thus, making digital education more attractive.
The mathematical framework which will be translated into a system that can be used by universities (and teaching organizations) in parallel to their existing infrastructure
A demonstration of the capabilities of the ODLEP system with a series of courses on the partner universities
Policy recommendations on the future of digital online higher education