Playful learning is not a new idea. However, it has been on the rise in the recent years, perhaps as one counterbalance to the increasing performativity brought about by digitalisation and datafication in schools. Welcome to today's episode, where Vibeke Schrøder and Niels-Peder Osmundsen Hjøllund, both lecturers and senior consultants at the University College Copenhagen, joined us.University College Copenhagen is one the partners of the EU funded project AgileEDU. A project looking at current practices and challenges in using educational data across Europe and building a knowledge base through a literature review, a set of Learning Stories and case studies that are all reviewed and validated through expert workshops and Dialogue Labs. The resource pack will be made publicly available will also be run as a massive open online course (MOOC) on the European Schoolnet Academy platform (https://www.europeanschoolnetacademy.eu/) in spring 2025. One of the case studies (http://agile-edu.eun.org/case-studies) of this project offers an in-depth explanation of playful learning and data use in education, including its obstacles, enablers and decisions affecting these phenomena. Semi-structured interviews, focus groups and desk research have been conducted to gather data for the development of this and other case studies to be published soon in 2025.Agile EDU is a project coordinated by European Schoolnet and with partners from the University College Copenhagen (Denmark), University of Oslo (Norway), Portuguese Ministry of Education (Portugal), Foundation Empieza por Educar (Spain), and the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (Sweden); with the French and Slovenian Ministries of Education are associated partners.Find more about the Agile EDU project: http://agile-edu.eun.org/home Discover our Perspective Paper on Playful Learning in the Age of Datafication and Digitalisation: https://kont.ly/perspective-paper13 *Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
