E-Learning, Digitisation and Units for Learning at VET schools – Creating online Learning Environments in Technical Education for European metal industry Erasmus Project

Project Title

E-Learning, Digitisation and Units for Learning at VET schools – Creating online Learning Environments in Technical Education for European metal industry

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Open and distance learning

Project Summary

EDU-VET is an acronym for “E-Learning, Digitisation and Units for Learning at VET schools – Creating online Learning Environments in Technical Education for European metal industry” a European strategic partnership project within the ERASMUS+ programme.
For vocational schools digitisation is becoming a challenge. Learners are used to new media because they us technical devices like smart phones and tablets in their daily life. But, at school digitisation is not so much in focus so far. For teachers and VET-schools the changes in social life and in economy lead to new requirements. In the future VET-school have to provide not only Smartboards or a PC room to show they are ready for a changing situation in life but they also have to focus on providing courses online and integrate eLearning in their daily teaching activities. And this it a core anchor point for the EDU-VET project.
The main objective of the EDU-VET project is to create new teaching and learning environments for VET (vocational education and training). EDU-VET focusses on the creation of online courses in a learning platform and supports the use of digital technologies within learning in the metal sector and reduces or removes barriers to education. The objective of EDU-VET project is facing the design, the implementation and testing of innovative teaching and learning within the VET metal sector. The aim is to create an EDU-Curriculum and online-courses on a learning platform for initial vocational education (i-VET) as well as an online-showroom for insights (texts about objectives, products, processes, contact data, photos, video or audios) into real companies in the metal work sector to foster teaching on an authentic basis. Moreover, EDU-VET provides a handbook and guideline for teachers to support them with pedagogical hint, background information, information about the use of the online courses in blended learning scenarios and with additional learning and teaching materials and resources. This handbook comes as a real printed book to foster sustainability even after the end of the project. The EDU-VET partners create the book in English language and focus on digitisation and eLEarning and the influences on VET in metal industry, where the survey results and the results of the desktop researches are provided and additional checklists and hints for teachers and trainers are given. Basis for all work and especially for the cuurriculum design process in EDU-VET is a research on the use of learning units and online-courses as well as new media in metal industry and VET. Dealing with new technology in metal industry is state of the are and therefore, EDU-VET focusses on an approach to let it also be used in VET for this field. The design of a research study in the partner countries is also an approach to get a European view on acceptances, experiences, problems and chances in the fields of pedagogy and online-courses based an digitisation approaches in the metal work sector.

The EDU-VET online and blended learning approach as well as the common EDU-VET curriculum offer new possibilities to rethink i-VET in metal industry and enhances the access of the learners to training and qualifications. EDU-VET addresses the priorities of European VET brilliantly and addresses topics like ICT, OE and ensures quality. The support of VET teachers and VET leaners is crucial and a core idea of EDU-VET. This is also the reason why EDU-VET provides results as open educational resources (OER) which will be of high quality and fit to the EU-StORe standards for OER.

In EDU-VET four VET schools cooperate with a university and a technical partner to combine the best set of competences and skills for the design, the implementation and the testing process. The partners are coming from UK, Spain, the Netherlands and Germany and have a strong network in VET.

The fifteen core results of the project EDU-VET are:
(1) the EDU-VET Curriculum
(2) the EDU-VET Learning and Teaching Resources
(3) the EDU-VET online courses for the metal sector
(4) the EDU-VET Online-Showroom with insights into metal companies, best practice information and videos
(5) the EDU-VET Book on innovative teaching and learning in the metal sector
(6) the EDUI-VET research report
(7) the EDU-VET dissemination materials (posters, leaflets, brochure, cards, pens, flyer)
(8) the EDU-VET Website with Blog
(9) the EDU-VET Guideline for VET educators and teachers
(10) the EDU-VET videos (integrated in the website and the online show-room)
(11) the EDU-VET OER strategy
(12) the EDU-VET digitisation concept for VET
(13) the EDU-VET publications, newsletter and press articles
(14) the EDU-VET research
(15) the EDU-VET evaluation report

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 283688 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITAET PADERBORN & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Centro Integrado de Formación Profesional Someso
• Berufskolleg Bocholt-West
• Stichting BVE Oost-Gelderland
• Lancaster and Morecambe College
• Ingenious Knowledge GmbH