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The use of Nanotechnology offers promising opportunities for the development of novel strategies to prevent, diagnose and treat COVID-19. And here comes the Nano-Code with its mission of linking digital technology and Nanotechnology applications used in the fight against COVID-19, by introducing specialized digitally enhanced blended learning curriculum.

To successfully adapt educational and training systems to novel needs, the Nano-Code initiative:

  • Develops new educational tools and online learning paths.
  • Offers novel cost-reduced forms of teaching and learning accessible to learners.
  • Promotes higher education learning using digitally-based teaching and learning methods: e-learning and blended learning.
  • Encourages the transition from managing the jobs to managing the skills with the assistance of digital tools.

The Nano-Code educational curriculum:

  • Introduces modern applications of Nanotechnology to academic professionals and BSc/MSc students to bring the knowledge and insights needed for shaping a better and healthier future.
  • Uses a Digital University Aula with the help of information and communication technologies to accommodate case studies, presentations, videos, visualizations, 3D-educational images, etc., and to support the change in the curriculum design, academic practice, infrastructure and the modes of higher education in the digital age.

The Nano-Code emphasizes the role of higher education tutors who:

  • Act not only as learning providers, but also as problem-settlers, masters, consultants, and analysts of the education system.
  • Are key actors in transforming the traditional higher education into sustainable investment with a focus on the quality and efficiency of education.
  • Assess graduates’ performance and diagnose their learning needs, mediating learner’s experiences through the creation, discovery or adaptation of training content.

The Nano-Code tackles the graduates’ and tutors’ need for advanced digital skills through:

  • Introduction of the concept of digital competence through mapping advanced digital skills and knowledge.
  • Review of the existing good examples for application of digital technologies in the universities.
  • A guideline focused on the best pedagogical and ICT-based practices in higher education.

The Nano-Code graduates:

  • Are actively engaged in the learning process as learners, collaborators and team members.
  • Have increased capabilities to learn more effectively in accordance with their personal pace of learning after mastering the learning process.

The Nano-Code assists the graduates by:

  • Creating a software tool for teaching/learning on demand, i.e. a digital training organizer offering a sequence of activities to organised an e-learning process on demand by end-users.
  • Introducing an approach to learning which is independent of space and time limits.
  • Offering high-quality specialised education.
  • Promoting the creation of inclusive higher education systems.
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