Deegeays.com was developed within a strategic partnership project “DEE-GEAYS: Digital Education Era - Global citizenship Education for Activating Youth online Space” and represents a methodology to Global Citizenship Education with a specific focus on one of its dimensions Social-Emotional Learning, with incorporation of digitization tools.

This methodology was born as a result of a joint collaboration of an international partnership made by 7 organisations from different countries and backgrounds. We tried to bring together vast experiences in youth work that some of the partners carried out throughout a decade, different backgrounds in research and education, and the vision of contributing youth workers’ on why global citizenship and global solidarity are particularly important today.

The objective behind this methodology was to create a non-formal learning lab cycle providing a comprehensive NFE framework with some elements of digitalization favouring a learner-centre approach, facilitating the comprehension of global citizenship as well sas the concept of global solidarity, and creating an environment for advancing one’s SEL level.

Deegeays.com is not just a platform where you can find our course on global citizenship education with a focus on social-emotional learning. We created a platform that is open, free and at zero cost for you, dear youth worker, if you'd like to create and upload your content on other topics. You made a great project and look for a way to digitalize your outcomes? You can join DEE-GEAYS platform as a learning provider: we encourage you to invest some time on knowing how Moodle works and create your own course that will be available for learners around the globe on this website.

Why is our digital platform unique? Because you can choose to learn together in a digital room right while surfing through the course! How is that different from Zoom? First of all, you don’t need to open any other tabs or organize in advance any virtual meeting, send links around and be worried of a limited time provided. While you open the learning module as a registered user, you can chose to jump into a virtual learning room together with your peers (if you are an individual learner) or your students (if you are a teacher) and go through some exercises together or discuss the videos you watched.  BigBlueButton (BBB) is a free service offered by Moodle. It is a virtual learning meeting room where you can:

• run learning sessions of up to an hour and with up to 25 participants
• display the presentation
• share your screen
• set up polls
• breakout rooms to divide the participants into smaller groups
• see useful analytics
• instant messaging
• upload documents
• share external videos
• work together on the virtual multi-user whiteboard
• Sessions can be recorded and viewed for seven days.

Badges! Along with BBB rooms, our course makes your learning dynamic thanks to learning badges. Badges are a good way of celebrating achievement and showing progress – it makes learning playful and reminds you the recognition of the new skills and competencies you are getting throughout the course. Badges may be awarded based on a variety of chosen criteria - when you complete an activity, a course or a set of courses - and may be displayed on a user's Moodle profile. On our platform there are two categories of badges:

• Course badges - available to users enrolled in the course and related to the activities that happen inside the course.
• Site badges - available to users site-wide and related to the site wide activities, like finishing a set of courses.

Users may manage their site and external badges by clicking on the user menu top right > Preferences > Badges > Manage badges. From here, you can view, search for and download badges. As a user, you can view available course badges from Navigation > Current course > Badges.