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"Beautiful Mind" - Open Educational Resources in non-formal senior education
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The main objective of the partnership is creating the manual “Guide for trainers. Beautiful Mind – Open Educational Resources in non-formal senior education” with three methodological and practical components: • Active Mind and Body (Italy) is a module that consists of active teaching materials for seniors, connected with healthy nutrition, psychophysical exercises and stress management. A special guide will be written to present the ways of preserving wellbeing among people over 50 which influence the growth and raising awareness of the importance of psychological and physical well-being, which can be achieved through the development of innovative training materials. • Speed Reading and Mnemotechnics in active learning (Poland) is a module of methodical work, together with scenarios and work cards. Additionally, there will be also three instructional videos for the implementation of speed reading techniques (CD and online platform). • Learning on the net for adults (Spain) is a module of the handbook and the associated useful and handy e-course designed for trainers. Each part of the module will contain theoretical guidance for the trainer and practical exercises related to modern technologies, which can be used while teaching traditional methods: face-to-face learning, distance learning, self-education and peer-learning. The handbook will be dedicated to trainers, lecturers and teachers connected in non-formal adult education with particular attention to the needs of people over fifty years of age (as a group of disadvantaged and at risk of social exclusion). Each partner specializes in the field which will create training materials. Three parts of manuscript will form a coherent whole thanks to partners’ cooperation. The manual will contain training materials, worksheets, scenarios, test results, descriptions of teaching methods as well as visual materials, e-course that will be published in the open access on Creative Commons License. The whole is intended to support the process of teaching and learning seniors. The manuscript will published in English, Italian, Spanish and Polish. Thanks to dissemination of the project outcomes, the institutions involved in adult education will be able to use ready-made training materials in their work. The three key issues of the manual are designed to meet the needs of contemporary people and enable them to be the active participants of modern societies.
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