Improvement of learning through European educational projects

Proceedings TEEM 2020: Eighth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality.[EN]The purpose of this article is to set out the research plan for the doctoral thesis, which deals with the definition of a methodological guide for the successful use of digital technologies in education, especially in eLearning, taking as a reference European educational projects that have been successful in achieving an improvement in the teaching and learning process. We live in an increasingly digital society that requires citizens to be prepared to adapt to the needs of the moment and to solve the problems that arise. For this to be possible, the education system must be prepared to adequately train future citizens who will join a changing labor market. To this end, teachers must be trained and know how to carry out efficient educational projects that allow them to make the most of the potential of ICT in the classroom or in distance education. The situation experienced during the 2019-2020 school year with the COVID-19 pandemic has tested the education system and its ability to adapt to a situation where the use of distance education was required and where ICT was very much needed in most of the cases to bring education to the homes. These factors make it very necessary to work for a better teaching professionalization. Therefore, the main objective of this PhD work is to enable teachers to design their projects, involving electronic learning, in a more effective way. To achieve this, what better than to use the educational projects compiled in the Erasmus+ results platform, which allow the analysis of project typology, outcomes, topics and to see those that have been catalogued as a good practice or success story. This database will be a key tool to gather information together with the collaboration of the main actors of those projects that have been successful. A methodological guide would allow teachers and teacher trainers to know the key factors that help to achieve a good design of educational projects and allow an optimal use of ICT resources and the greatest impact on the teaching-learning process

The Influence of Cooling Air Ejection on Flow Development and Heat Transfer in a Rotating Leading Edge Coolant Duct of a Film-Cooled Turbine Blade

With increasing turbine inlet temperature, the cooling of gas turbine components exposed to the hot gas flow will be of great importance. The improvement of the efficiency demands higher performance from the blade cooling systems with minimized coolant flow rates to cope with the increase in heat load as well as to meet the obligatory safety requirements. This calls for very accurate knowledge of the gas and coolant side flow and heat transfer, which both affect the blade temperature field, in order to obtain an efficient cooling design. This paper provides information about rotational effects on fluid motion and heat transfer within a rotating coolant duct of circular cross section with bleeding of cooling air through a row of film cooling holes for the purpose of film cooling of the hot gas side of the blade. Experimental data were obtained from a model mounted to the rotating duct facility at DLR. Flow development were measured by a non-intrusive optical Laser velocimeter. Wall temperature distributions around the duct wall and the generated heat were measured to provide data for local heat transfer analysis. The direction of bleeding is varied against the direction of rotation to study its effect on the development of secondary vortex structures which are generally caused within the flow by the rotational forces. Depending on the direction of bleeding, secondary vortex motion as well as heat transfer variation around the duct circumference are enhanced with pressure side ejection or weakened with suction side ejection