Digital VET Readiness Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital VET Readiness

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; Cooperation between educational institutions and business; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

COVID-19 crises led to a fast digitization of the learning process in most European countries. The students, teachers and educational stakeholders supporting the VET education had to deal with the situation very quickly, even though they were not ready. In recent months, as a result of the interruption of the educational process schools, teachers and students have been placed in an unfamiliar, unconventional, and challenging environment. The transition to distance learning has tested the ability of school leaders, teachers, and students to adapt flexibly to a learning situation in which participants are spatially separated and the interaction between them is mediated. The efforts that were made in the whole sphere of education were enormous.
Knowledge about and ability to use open source learning resources in a good pedagogical way and to equip teachers/educators with the skills / knowledge of developing their own digital materials, is therefore in great demand. Likewise, having digital access to companies as a source for learning, collaborating and job demands is essential in all VET training since we have a common European work market.
Digital education readiness is also to prepare not only the teachers, but also school management and staff, students and parents to avoid some of the lessons learned from spring 2020.
Target group in this project will be VET institutions and its management and teachers.
Summarized the project aims to
1. Identify criteria’s for VET institutions digital educational readiness and create guidelines and checklist to implement digital pedagogical readiness competences among educators and schools as an organization.
2. Create mapping tool supporting the developed criteria’s to score the Digital pedagogical preparedness.
3. Create E-Activities within digital pedagogical practical knowledge and digital pedagogical guidelines with visual supportive steps for practical creation of learning modules giving students holistic learning experience.
4. Create easy to use, low and secure E-VISIT learning tool for improved digital collaboration between school, students and companies.

In the beginning the project will starts to develop concrete knowledge, description, criteria to better help VET Institutions to develop their own digital educational readiness guidelines and in parallel a mapping tool based on known criteria to score the institutions and give direction for their further work.

Project will also start to develop concrete learning content within usage of digital educational resources and implementation guidelines. All this put together will be our methodology package, which contain a handbook of methods, tools, guidelines and checklists within digital pedagogical readiness competences. E-Activites within 5 educational resources and learning modules giving students holistic learning in order to support digital transformation processes among schools. Is important for VET education and will be important part of implementation process in project.
Three Joint Staff training events (LTT’s) in Portugal, Germany and Norway for 2-3 teachers from each partner in order to learn and improve the created solutions will be a very important activity to both tests, evaluate and improve our work. Even more important is the learning among participating teachers, since they will be active parts to implement the knowledge, tools and software in pilot projects and workshops after the LTT.

In parallel with this work, the needed E-VISIT tool will be developed and tested, first within partnership, then among all associated partner and companies partners cooperate with. The learning tool will give much needed improved digital collaboration between school, students and companies as well as open a better opportunity to visit work learning situation outside the schools neighbourhood, thus supporting the idea of a common European work market. .

In total this will be a strong developed packed, giving both participating VET institutions an increased digital educational readiness covering all learning aspects of their education, but also an important packed possible to use as a whole or just part of it for schools outside the partnership.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 199800 Eur

Project Coordinator

Prios Kompetanse AS & Country: NO

Project Partners

• Val Skoler AS
• ENSINUS – Estudos Técnicos e Profissionais SA
• VUC Storstrøm
• Oberstufenzentrum Informations- und Medizintechnik