Flip your classes through multimedia enriched apprenticeship simulations and develop e-skills for VET teachers and students to enhance youth employability Erasmus Project

Project Title

Flip your classes through multimedia enriched apprenticeship simulations and develop e-skills for VET teachers and students to enhance youth employability

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

E-Classes Project focused on developing the professional and pedagogical competences among teachers and trainers enhancing ICT uptake in teaching and learning, through the support of learning and access to OER in the education and training fields with the aims to combining higher levels of excellence and attractiveness with increased opportunities for all.
The project was designed and implemented for helping teachers in VET learning system by elaborating, testing and implementing a new and innovative pedagogical model – the flipped classroom methodology, together with the involvement of companies’ partnerships through multimedia enriched apprenticeship simulations for enhancing youth employability.
The main results of the project consists in several products that are open and ready to use by any teacher across Europe interested in developing the teaching skills in order to be better prepared for digital native learners:
The Guide of Flipped Classroom Methodology presents in a short and attractive manner the concept of the flipped classroom and the methodology on how to flip your class. The structure of the Guide includes 5 modules structured in 4 units. Each module includes 2 types of materials: a text support and video tutorials explaining the main concepts in the presented units. Each module is autonomous &independent. By being presented online and by the help of video support materials, the Guide is structured into an Online Course designed to explore the pedagogical approach of flipped learning. An evaluation online questionnaire includes items from all modules and can provide a useful direct feed-back for the teachers enrolled in the course. The course followed a stage of piloting and validating and a stage of National trainings of VET teachers interested in this topic. Access to the online platform can be done by creating an account (which takes 2-3 minutes and is an automatic process).
The Flipped Classes Multimedia Lessons were designed and implemented by teachers involved in the project, who selected different STEM and VET disciplines to create best practice models of. There are 47 model lessons included in the e-learning platform structured in 4 categories: Math and Sciences (15), IT & Programming (12), Technologies (14), Interdisciplinary lessons (6).
Each lesson example is an educational package containing: the video(s) presenting the teaching material, the plan for in-class activities, including educational games, video samples for the in-class activities, Activity& Resources, including the evaluation and follow-up of the class. Using this kind of methodology for teaching has been challenging but also considered highly appropriate by the students across Europe.
Beside the development of knowledges and competences on science and technological disciplines, using the flipped classes’ methodology, E-Classes project integrates the requirements and the experience of the job market as a transversal theme within the school subjects taught. Students collaborated with companies and based on visits in companies and research/interview/observation techniques, created 12 videos (3 for each country involved in the project) in companies which focus on: how companies support youth employability, competences requested, jobs programmes, integration and motivation, equal opportunities, etc.
These videos are presented in the e-learning platform of the project, under a specific category and under the slogan “I Am Welcomed, Therefore, I Belong”. 2 pairs of international online events of common debates between students (RO-BG and ES-IT) have been organised in order to encourage virtual interaction of students at school.
The network of teachers involved in creating these final products collaborated and shared feedback on their work by the help of 2 valuable short staff trainings included in the project which increased the cooperation and direct valorisation of the project.
The YouTube Channel of the project (with over 100 video materials) and the website (http://e-classes.eu/) are powerful online tools which will further increase the visibility&accesibility of these products and will maintain the interest of teachers and trainers in the project’s topic.
The results and actions of E-Classes project have been disseminated by the help of 8 Multiplier Events, organised by each partner organisation at local and regional level. The main aim of these events was to raise the teachers and trainers’ community awareness about the importance of developing, testing and implementing an innovative approach for teachers focusing on the strategic use of an open and flexible learning, OERs and a better exploitation of the ICT resources.
Various local dissemination activities such as workshops, training sessions, common debates or experimentations attracted a lot of interested participants, which means a greater exposure of the online final products and increased utility for those who want to develop this method further in the future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197050 Eur

Project Coordinator

Liceul Tehnologic de Mecatronica si Automatizari & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Bulgarian Association of Networking Academies
• Association “IT World BG”
• CENTRO SUPERIOR DE FORMACION EUROPA SUR
• CIPAT
• PIXEL – ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE
• CONFEDERACION ESPANOLA DE CENTROS DE ENSENANZA ASOCIACION C.E.C.E.
• FUNDATIA EUROED