The Minister of Education officially announces a series of new last-minute decisions with new measures that will bring very important changes for all students in all schools in Romania, and we are talking about the decision to create a digital platform with open educational resources that the young people of our country will be able to access.
The Minister of Education explains below how a very important digitization project for schools in Romania will be implemented by the authorities, with substantial sums of money being allocated so that students in Romanian schools can enjoy quality education during the next school years .
"The 5.400 schools included in the project "Digital Platform with Open Educational Resources - EDULIB (Virtual Library)", code SMIS 130181, began to acquire multimedia kits (notebook, video projector with screen and support, as well as a STEM kit for the physics laboratory). The provision of these secondary schools with a STEM kit kit for the physics laboratory (ongoing stage) is completed by.
Realization of an LCMS (Learning and Content Management System); technological adaptation of existing lessons (approximately 3000 lessons from the secondary school level); creating new lessons (about 700 lessons); making a component of LCMS intended for teachers (and not only) for creating new lessons.
The objective of the project is the creation of a coherent integrated environment, managed and protected, to respond to the specific needs of the use of e-content resources of educational interest, as critical resources for the modern educational process. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) kits are a means to educate students for the professions of the future and to carry out transdisciplinary school projects. The kit is intended for secondary school students. They are useful to develop skills needed in the future in areas such as robotics, programming and digital transformation in general.
Using STEM kits goes a long way in developing students' digital skills. The STEM kit from EDULIB can be used in teaching activities for computer science, physics, robotics and technology. With the help of a kit, groups of a maximum of 40 students can work. The kit is intended for use at the classroom level or in robotics circles. The EDULIB platform contains digital lessons for secondary school, covering several subjects. Some lessons use this kit.
The technology of the delivered kits is based on the ARDUINO open source platform, used in countries such as Germany, Italy, UAE, China and many others. The main semiconductors are provided by the American company Microchip, being of the latest generation. In EDULIB, 5400 kits are delivered to 5400 schools. Each kit contains the following: 40 programmable pads packed in anti-static bags; box with 37 common sensors, 1500 LEDs, 40 breadboards, heavy-duty cables and multi-compartment plastic boxes for organization.”
