Changing paradigm of education: integration of new media and of competence-based learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

Changing paradigm of education: integration of new media and of competence-based learning

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

Changing paradigm of education: integration of new media and integration of competence-based learning (CPE) – Teaching with tablet-PCs pan-European

Freedom of movement, European job market, personal responsibility and media competence – these were only a few challenges for apprentices and vocational education. School as an institution needed to react. Therefore the conception of school and ways of teaching had to be altered: more competence-focused, more self-organized, more student-dependent and more media-based lessons and the use of ECVET.
The partnership focused the following questions:
(a) Which European-competences should be the focus to prepare the students for the European job-market?
(b) In which ways could school as an institution facilitate “digital competences” of the “digital natives”, for them to become responsible users of new technologies in their lifelong learning process?
(c) In which ways could school teach cross-border, competence-based and possibly bilingually?

The four project schools brought their experiences together with the aim of cross-border European instructional development: (1) self-organized and practise-oriented learning (Landesberufsschule Hartberg, Austria), (2) the use of tablet-PCs and smartphones in practise-oriented learning environments (Max-Weber-Berufskolleg, Germany), (3) experiences with the use of ECVET (Oulu vocational college, Finland), (4) cross-cultural learning in projects (Landesberufsschule Savoy, Italy). Complementary to this the market research company ACADEMIC DATA (Germany) developed, coordinated, conducted, evaluated and published the results of two studies (observation of lessons, online-study of companies about the facilitation of competences).

The learning arrangements had to comply with the following criteria: practise-oriented, competence-based, self-organized and help the students work independently; the lessons needed to facilitate the capacity to act and the media-competence; the learning outcome was verified using ECVET. The learning arrangements was tried out, evaluated and possibly optimised for further use.

It was our aim to get the critical focus on pan-European facilitation of professional competence and digital competence as well as the long-term development and use of tablet-based learning arrangements.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 72907 Eur

Project Coordinator

Max-Weber-Berufskolleg & Country: DE

Project Partners

• OULUN SEUDUN KOULUTUSKUNTAYHTYMA OSEKK
• Landesberufsschule Hartberg
• Scuola professionale provinciale alberghiera “Savoy” – Landesberufsschule Savoy
• Academic Data Gesellschaft für Umfragen, Methodenberatung und Analysen mbH