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The project builds on previous work on mobile learning technology in education. The expertise developed through the MTTEP project (http://mttep.eu) has provided a strong foundation for the project and the key leader of the MTTEP project, Dr. Kevin Burden (University of Hull, UK) has contributed as the expert throughout the Moltam-project. Originally we applied Erasmus+ funding for four partners, but the UK partner Kelvin Hall School did not receive funding and eventually dropped out of the project and we became three partners: Wildermuth-Gymnasium Tübingen, Germany with Michael Reder as contact person, Colegio Santa Maria Marianistas Valencia, Spain with Pedro Barrientos-Pérez as contact person and Metis vgs Bergen, Norway with Anbjørg Igland as coordinator of the project. The purpose of the project has been to develop teacher expertise in the use of mobile learning to support formative assessment. Together the partners have explored good practice, using various mobile learning tools to develop teacher expertise which in turn has supported student progress. The objective for the project has been to provide practicing teachers opportunities to learn about and work with mobile learning tools within their day-to-day teaching. The project has provided opportunities for guided, hands-on training through three teacher training activities, the first at the LTT in Tübingen 19/2-22/2 2018, the second in Valencia 5/11-8/11 2018 and the third in Bergen 13/5-16/5 2019. Moreover, the project has allowed teachers to explore the potential of guided learning through digital devices outside the classroom, allowing them to strengthen student-teacher dialogue beyond traditional teaching and learning situations. The iPac model, developed by Dr Kevin Burden and teacher educators and academics at the University of Technology, Sidney (Australia), has served has the key pedagogical framework for the Moltam project. The purpose of the iPac model is to give teachers diagnostic feedback of mobile learning activities, the level of authenticity, personalisation, collaboration etc. Based on the iPac, the partners have established a common framework for case studies and formative assessment. At the initially stage, we trialed the app Socrative (Socrative.com) to be used for peer-to peer assessment. This app enabled students and teachers to assess each other´s work by immediate feedback. However, we realized we needed more knowledge about how to relate the iPac model to formative assessment, something that had not been explored in the MTTEP project. Since Metis was responsible for the iPac model, we invited Dr. Kevin Burden to Bergen to hold a workshop for us 2/5 2019. The topic was iPac and formative assessment and how we create meaning with mobile technology. Our colleagues from Høgskulen på Vestlandet (former partners in the MTTEP project) also joined us. Later on 15/10 2019 we invited Rebecca Kelly to Metis (Ph.D student of Kevin Burden), whose Ph.D thesis is about the iPac and formative assessment and from her we also gained useful knowledge to share with our German and Spanish partners. Dr. Kevin Burden and Rebecca Kelly joined us at the TN in Valencia 5/11 2019. This workshop allowed our Spanish and German partners to become more familiar with the iPac framework, how it can support formative assessment and learning outside the classroom.The potential to share the findings of the project has been important. At our first LTT in Tübingen, our German partners arranged an in-service-teacher event at the University of Tübingen, where practicing teachers from different schools as well as students from the university attended the workshop to learn about mobile learning. Moreover, at the LTT in Valencia, all the teachers from the partner school were invited to a hands-on mobile learning workshop and at the LTT in Bergen May 2019, the teachers from Metis attended a hands-on mobile learning workshop. As for publications, the Spanish partners have published articles about the project on a Spanish educational platform (see link padlet Project Results platform) and Metis has an agreement with Lektorbladet to publish an article about the project after the final report has been submitted. The Spanish partner has created their own Erasmus+ folder on their school´s website with information about the Moltam-project (http://www.marianistasalboraya.es/?s=Erasmus%2B) and on the Metis website we have a folder for Erasmus+ projects with information about the project in both Norwegian and English (https://www.metis.no/vgs/bergen/info/erasmus). We have also created our own Moltam website (http://moltam.eu). This helps to spread information about the project to students and parents and other people, nationally and transnationally, who are interested in getting in touch with us. The eTwinning platform has been used to share documents and results on Twinspace so that there is evidence of our project and our results and reflections can be reached by other colleagues within the eTwinning platform.
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