Media Education – a Challenge to Overcome (MECO)

MECO – Media Education- a Challenge to Overcome project intends to promote awareness of media influence and create an active stance towards both consuming and creating media.

It aims to help the users to consider the challenges that digital transformation creates for online safety and cyber healthy existence

It targets to strengthen adult’s critical thinking, so they can judge and overcome the ever-present threats of fake news, cyber bullying, radicalization, cybersecurity threats and fraud.

The project also focuses on supporting adult educators in transferring the needed knowledge to their students.

IMPROVE

Improve the level of skills of educators to adequately contribute to enhance the potential of adults, and development of critical thinking and personal responsibility.

FACILITATE ACCESS

Facilitate access of adults to informal learning opportunities and exchanges of experiences, widen their awareness and develop their competencies and skills to think and act critically.

ENHANCE THE CAPACITY

Enhance the capacity of adult organizations to appropriately valorize adults, equip those organizations with new training tools and materials to support their target groups, improve and expand the offer of personalized quality learning.

• “MECO – Essential needs of educators to support adult learners with fewer opportunities”- comprehensive needs analyses report comprising several aspects of adult education from the needs of educators that work with adult learners with fewer opportunities, to the methods of to encourage adults to engage in lifelong learning and social activities.
• MECO TOOLKIT – training material that provides the project’s target groups with high-quality knowledge and skills needed to guide adult educators to teach to develop critical thinking among the adults and abilities to recognize the fraudulent use of the web.
• MECO PLATFORM – The “e-learning Platform” serve as an open education digital platform for the provision of the training material developed throughout the project. It is an innovative way to engage distant learners in the training procedure.
• MECO Competence Assessment – ICT tool for Competence Assessment will be to evaluate the knowledge and starting skills of the target group, identification of the needs of the specific target groups that need to be addressed in order to provide them with useful skills.

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