AFTERLIFE

Project Ref.: 612641-EPP-1-2019-1-BE-EPPKA2-KA
Textile Engineering for Co-creation Paradigms in Education

About T-Crepe afterlife

The heritage of a successful project lives on and has an impact long after the project has ended.

  • OPEN SOURCE

    The heritage of a successful project should live on, be shared freely, and have an impact long after the project has ended. This is our ambition with the end of our T-CREPE Erasmus+ Project (2019-2023).
     
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  • LEARNING PLATFORM + GAMES

    The project has created concrete and potentially transferable results, namely the free to use e-learning platform, the ‘Planet Platform’ (cocreationplanet.eu) that contains tools for learning the Design Thinking methodology, and 102 educational games based on the open-source, authoring tool ‘ChoiCo Games’ (‘Choices with Consequences’) developed by our key consortium partner (NKUA). These games have been co-developed with teachers and students in 15 international courses in higher education institutions around the world (e.g., Finland, Morocco, Greece, and Belgium), and are open to be viewed for 5 years after the end of this Project.

  • RESEARCH

    Academic research has also been carried out and published during the project, the results of which will provide the basis for further critical discussion and academic inquiry. Twelve (12) conference presentations and three (3) journal papers have been published on the topics of co-creation, design thinking, game-based learning, and mobility and facilitation of co-creation sessions, and at least one (1) journal article is in preparation.

  • MORE OUTCOMES

    In addition to the expected deliverables, the project has allowed an avid space for a productive networking, and several promotional and informative activities, such as training workshops, project reports and social media publications. A number of these outcomes shall continue to exist after the end of the project for at least 5 years, and they can also be used as good practices or guidelines for new projects. Envisioned outcomes include further transferability of the deliverables and new co-creation actions between academia and industry, and emerging fields.

YOUR BENEFIT AS AN EDUCATOR

The platform is originally designed to support instructors/educators from the (textile) design engineering domain and beyond in the implementation of online learning activities utilising the idea of gameplay.

If you are interested in having your students explore creative tools that can potentially save coaching time, improve coaching effectiveness and efficiency, and enable a commercial exploitation (by making students’ projects visible and shareable widely and available to the corporate sector), then we would like to hear from you.

By participating in the T-Crepe project, you will have the opportunity to: 

  • Strengthen your (online) teaching by using a student-centred innovative e-learning platform
  • Learn about innovative educational tools with which you can co-develop online resources (games) for your students
  • Exchange interdisciplinary knowledge with other academics and industry partners
  • Develop a local and international network, leading to new collaborations for you and your students
  • Become agent of change in your community.

In practical terms, you will be able to:

  • Make use of existing online games for your students to explore the Design Thinking methodology
  • Co-develop your own games for your students to play and learn specific concepts for your course
  • Tailor your course projects / concepts and make them into online games with the T-Crepe team’s help
  • Provide your students with tools to create or modify online games
  • Foster independent, collective and self-regulated learning with minimal personal or one-to-one coaching
  • Use the platform as a tool for evaluating students’ progress
  • Make your teaching/coaching more enjoyable and effective.

Your students will get involved in:

  • Getting familiar with / mastering the phases of the Design Thinking methodology (from understanding the project and user to developing rapid prototyping skills and preparing for product delivery)
  • Becoming more independent, entrepreneurial and stimulated to venture
  • Acquiring 21st century, future-proof skills and competences for Industry 4.0
  • Networking with diverse stakeholders and increase employability. 

How to get involved

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