See the goal! – In-company learning outcomes as videos Erasmus Project

Project Title

See the goal! – In-company learning outcomes as videos

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Recognition, transparency, certification; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

Quality assurance of in-company training for apprenticeship and school-based VET is an important issue of European VET. Well-defined learning outcomes are crucial, as they support the preparation of the students´ study plans and their implementation, ease the assessment and contribute to transnational mobility. Video technology is a convenient approach for addressing the challenge of applying learning outcomes, used in the project “See the goal: In-company learning outcomes as video recordings”.
7 partners from 4 countries were involved in the development process. SLOVENIA, as Lead partner, the Institute of the RS for VET (CPI), together with the vocational school center (Solski Center) from Celje. DENMARK, the Consultancy firm Moeve aps and the vocational school ZBC SOSU Sjælland. PORTUGAL, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry CCILA. FINLAND, the University of Applied Sciences HAMK and the vocational school Tavastia.
Experts and practitioners from Slovenia, Denmark, Finland and Portugal want to improve the quality of planning the in-company training, to design a more transparent communication among different stakeholders (especially schools and companies), and to create useful tools for students’ self-assessment.
Project produced seven intellectual outputs (here and after IO):
1. IO1 Four sets of videos (23 videos in total)
2. IO2 Script
3. IO3 Collection of best pedagogical practice & conclusions
4. IO4 Pedagogical guidelines for in-company trainers
5. IO5 Guidelines for VET consultants (WBL organizers or advisors of training companies)
6. IO6 Guidelines for VET students
7. IO7 Formulation of learning outcomes (national practices)
A series of minimum training requirements for companies, in the form of in-company learning outcomes and typical work situations, were prepared. Denmark, Finland and Portugal have in-company learning outcomes prescribed on national level, since Slovenia developed them during the project. They were described in the report on in-company learning outcomes design (IO7). Selected learning outcomes were described in scenarios that were the basis for shooting videos (IO1). The procedure for making videos was described in the manual for video production (IO2). In the application we named this IO2 Script. There was a lot of misunderstanding with this term, so we change it to Manual.
VET students, in-company trainers and managers, VET consultants/coordinators and VET teachers used videos in practice in different ways:
• in VET schools for introducing to the students to their learning outcomes for their forthcoming in-company training,
• by VET students, as a preparation before their training in a company,
• by VET students, to support self-assessment during or after the training in a company,
• by VET students, making videos about in-company learning outcomes as a reflection on the learning process and as a contribution to their portfolios,
• in training companies, as a dialogue tool for trainer and student(s), regarding the professional content of the learning outcomes and as a joint reference framework for trainer and student(s)
• by VET consultants, as a focusing tool on the learning purpose of students´ in-company training periods.
The aim of using videos in practice described above, was firstly to elaborate different usages of videos and secondly to evaluate them. All in all, several hundreds of persons were involved and as a result of this activity, the report on usage of videos for different purposes was prepared (IO3). On the basis of the results of the practical use of videos we prepared three guides to support the use of videos for three different target groups: students, in-company trainers and VET consultants (IO4, IO5, IO6). All the results are available on the webpage: https://www.seethegoal-eu.si/.
More than 2000 people (students, teachers, in-company trainers, policy makers and other stakeholders) benefited from the project results directly and indirectly. All the intellectual outputs have been in use in all partners’ countries. Some of them are usable for specific educational programme (IO1) or specific target group (IO4, IO5, IO6), others are transferable into different educational programs or even levels and types of education (IO2, IO3, IO7). The methodology/approach developed in See the goal project is usable as well in:
• general education (primary and secondary level: e.g. project work in primary schools…);
• different levels and types of VET educational (for different forms of work-based learning);
• youth actions (recognition of informally acquired knowledge);
• national vocational qualifications (recognition, validation and accreditation of non-formal and informal learning);
• career orientation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 280818 Eur

Project Coordinator

CENTER REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE ZA POKLICNO IZOBRAZEVANJE & Country: SI

Project Partners

• SOLSKI CENTER CELJE
• SOSU Sjælland/ZBC
• Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Luso-Alemã
• HAMEEN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY
• Koulutuskuntayhtymä Tavastia
• Moeve aps