Didactical and digital skills for teachers to provide high quality online practical VET Erasmus Project

Project Title

Didactical and digital skills for teachers to provide high quality online practical VET

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 : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Open and distance learning; Pedagogy and didactics; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Due to COVID-19 pandemy at the beginning of 2020 vocational education and training (VET) had to be transformed and moved from classrooms and workshops into digital learning environment. EU research indicates there is a considerable lack of digital and pedagogical competencies for distance teaching among teachers. Furthermore, when it comes to planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluating, there are some obvious discrepancies between traditional classes and distance learning. Especially in VET problems seem to be even more evident, as a distant high quality teaching in this field is much more demanding than teaching theoretical contents. VET must be supported by all tools necessary for overcoming challenges and motivating students to be able to keep learning in the context of uncertainty, stressful labour market anticipations and other economic and social consequences of the pandemic. The DIGIHiQVET project aims to an innovative and systematic approach to search for suitable solutions with an emphasis on teaching various practical contents in a variety of educational situations, which are appropriate for distance learning.

In the project DIGIHiQVET we strive to develop, implement and evaluate a free access, innovative and high quality online training for practical classes E-teaching. The training will help the teachers in their professional development as they will be able to use the acquired knowledge, skills and competencies at their work as teachers of practical classes.

Furthermore, they will upgrade their digital, innovative pedagogical competencies, and cooperative and innovative practices to develop new methods of distance teaching.

The aim of DIGIHiQVET project is an empowerment of teachers and mentors of practical classes for the implementation of high quality educational situations referring to practical contents in the digital environment as a response to COVID-19 pandemy and all future challenges which might render live classes impossible.

The project’s objectives:
-Upgrading of pedagogical and digital knowledge, skills and competencies of teachers and mentors in VET and qualifying them for the appropriate pedagogical implementation of the adequate educational situations of practical contents in distance learning, so that they will be equally efficient and of comparable quality to traditional performance in workshops.
-Boosting of non-formal, professional distance education of teachers and mentors, which is accessible anywhere and anytime.
-Improving distance education with an emphasis on practical classes for all students, including those with learning difficulties or students from socially disadvantaged groups.
-Higher degree of practical classes flexibility and their successful inclusion in the forms of distance learning, combined classes or use for the period of teacher’s replacement.
-The primary target group of the DIGIHiQVET project is the teachers of practical contents and mentors in the field of VET, whereas the second target group consists of school leaderships, politicians, employers, practical classes organizers, other teachers and adult educators. Directs beneficiaries of the project are participating students involved in the VET processes, other students and adults included in lifelong learning.

There are 5 partners from 5 different EU countries, among which there are 3 secondary level VET schools: BC Naklo as a project applicant, SOŠ Pruské from Slovakia, IES Virgen de la Cabeza from Spain; and two professional partners – ShipCon, an enterprise working in the field of VET and project application/implementation from Cyprus, and BETI – an institute in the field of educational technologies from Lithuania. It is a two-level structured project of intelectual outputs and cross-over activities: project management, monitoring and evaluation, and dissemination..

Project outputs:
O1: STATE OF THE ART ANALYSIS of the existing tools, environments and applications for the practical distance teaching with the CASE STUDIES of good practices
O2: The CURRICULUM OF WEB TRAINING »E-practical classes« and the preparation of professional modules knowledge catalogues
O3 E-MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT and the ESTABLISHMENT OF WEB TRAINING – »E-practical classes«
O4 SAMPLE E-LESSON PLANS, their e-implementation and practical evaluation

The most important impact of the DIGIHiQVET project will be the improvement of digital and pedagogical competencies of teachers and mentors, increased self-esteem of teaching staff, greater readiness for international cooperation and project work… Students shall acquire equal vocational competencies and skills, irrespective of form and implementation of practical classes and improve their digital competencies.

Materials in the projects will be developed in EN, SL, SK, ES, EL, LT and will be accessible on the web, namely on the website of the project functioning as an educational p

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 242915 Eur

Project Coordinator

Biotehniski center Naklo & Country: SI

Project Partners

• Stredna odborna skola Pruske 294
• IES VIRGEN DE LA CABEZA
• SHIPCON LIMASSOL LIMITED
• VIESOJI ISTAIGA BALTIJOS EDUKACINIU TECHNOLOGIJU INSTITUTAS