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is 'rewarded' with points and students have a more receptive attitude towards the
learning process. The teachers still do not have much experience in terms of designing
and creating digital educational resources. They know how to create the basic video
and audio contents. They can create the video collection for a unit, save the links and
then add them to their lessons. They are using YouTube, which is great source for find-
ing educational videos through digital education content providers, there are many
channels dedicated to K-12 learning. Also, they find that Quizlet, Edpuzzle and Google
Forms became also quite useful in the process and currently are a part of studies even
after the pandemic. Another important step into the learning digitalization was creat-
ing of teacher’s own digital materials like prerecorded video and audio lectures. Pro-
grams like Audacity and GarageBand were helpful to record voice memos to give
learners instructions for an assignment or project or record assessment questions for
learners who need a modification. Teachers are using online assessment builders like
Quizlet, that can be used to review concepts. If they want to share videos, some of
them use Edpuzzle, which allows to add comprehension questions to them and track
learners’ understanding. All these measures have improved student performance dur-
ing remote studies and are showing to be successful even in the face-to-face format.
However, the teachers would like to have some trainings on using more digital tools
and improving their abilities to develop the content for digital courses in more interac-
tive and learner friendly way. Ex., they would like to learn how to make a digital escape
room using Google Forms.

3.5.2 STRONGER FOCUS ON LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND CLARIFICATION

OF LEARNERS´ NEEDS AND PREREQUISITES
During the research interviewed educators have provided several crucial skills that are
needed to match their learners’ prerequisites and needs. Firstly, teachers have to be
able to develop an organized lesson plans and regularly make the evaluation of the
performance of their students. Secondly, they have to set specific objectives for learn-
ing in order for students to have more focus on these objectives when they are reading
the materials and making the exercises. In order to ensure that the learners’ prerequi-
sites and needs are met during the training, the teachers carried out short interviews
with learners or given short questionnaires for the learners at the beginning of the
course in order to clear their needs and then to focus more meeting these needs dur-
ing the training course. According to the teachers and trainers participating in the in-
terview, the best learning methods to be used for their learners were group discus-
sions and learning through enquiry.

3.5.3 NEW METHODS TO STRENGTHEN LEARNERS´ MOTIVATION
In order to maintain learners´ motivation for education and in particular their motiva-
tion to engage in digital learning processes the interviewed educators use several dif-
ferent methods: video-based learning, personalizing learning, rewarding students’
success, providing meaningful feedback, gamification, self-monitoring, assessments,
and more. Video-Based Learning - video instructions suit learners with any learning
style preferences and include audio material (listening), text (reading), images (watch-