Mobile self-Learning Tool Targeting Improved Adult Literateness

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"Mobile self-Learning Tool Targeting Improved Adult Literateness (self-Learn) aims to support the enhancement of basic skills of low-skilled adults by the introduction of an Android App for easy and flexible access. The system aims prior self-assessment for a convenient content offer, and a final assessment for measuring the progress of the end-users; eventually, realize core objective ""upskilling pathways"" with three nested steps. The tool will offer enhancement of literateness in three parallel competencies; reading comprehension, numerical literacy, and digital literacy. The tool will further target guides/mentors who are close family members of low-skilled adults, by offering them guidelines for assisting the learning efforts of low-skilled adults, in order to increase the efficiency of the overall system. Development of the content and the app will be followed by field trials for measuring the performance of the tool, relatively the approach, and the system. Project targets to train and validate learnings of 500 low-skilled adults, collect feedback and evaluation from stakeholders for the determination of the future of the expansions. Therefore, adult training suppliers are among the highly benefiting bodies from the self-Learn system. Since self-Learn is designed to be an extendible and expandible tool for the future's digital life, its impact will further spread to different aspects of adult learning and digital education in a wider sense. Several outputs are foreseen as complementary components of the aimed tool, ranging from interactive self-assessments (skills screening) based on talking robots, the multi-layer learning offer, final testing and assessment tools for the validation of achievements, directions and manual for guides/mentors, a short and compact video describing the functions of the tool to be used as an efficient dissemination tool, feedback mechanism for collection of ideas for all audience, which are all digital type products."