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The AWARD Learning Environment

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The “DST-TSD” system can be understood as, on the one hand, a tool whose use is distributed across many different actors who each contribute to, and make use of the information sets that directly concern them; and, on the other hand, as an integration mechanism whose cumulative effect is to provide a rich pedagogic resource of benefit not only to the consortium partners but also far beyond.  The DST-TSD as a “Digital Twin” functions, on the one hand, as an “Observatory” of the Demo Cases within the AWARD Project itself; and, on the other hand, as a demonstrator or prototype for knowledge sharing and capacity-building on a wider and ongoing basis. In other words the entire DST-TSD platform that, through its interlocking knowledge mediation and deliberation support functions, has a collaborative learning ambition by design. 

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The DST-TSD Digital Twin is conceived as a contributory toolkit.  By this, we mean that it provides numerous opportunities for active participation by all Project consortium members in the production and use of the information and analyses portrayed in different parts of the gateway.  The active contribution is, moreover, synonymous with active learning. 

  • On the one hand, it provides a set of Workflows with dedicated pedagogic functions.  Distinct galleries accessed through the Entry Points §4.A and §4.B provide for (A) the production of teaching and learning resources in a “granular” format, organised by themes, and (B) the presentation, in the form of “Course Outlines”, of the modules making up the AWARD Training Program. 

  • On the other hand, it provides, through its multiple Entry Points and associated Workflows, a rich set of opportunities for active learning-by-doing, with reference to the AWARD Demo Cases and the evaluation of opportunities for integration of AWRs components in territorial planning strategies.

All these structures of discovery, learning and deliberation support are supplemented by tools that provide for the cataloguing of supporting electronic documents in multiple formats (from PDF to video to autonomous websites), a cross-cutting documentary functionality that is accessed through Entry Point 6A and that serves all facets of the DST-TSD system