VET Teachers and Embracing the Digital Disruption Erasmus Project

Project Title

VET Teachers and Embracing the Digital Disruption

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 2018

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The Global Edtech Landscape 3.0 report, published in Aug 2017 stated that ‘once the sole domain of academics and publishers, learning content is now democratised. Knowledge is, for the most part, freely available to anyone with internet access. It’s also never been easier to create and curate rich, engaging content through digital platforms.’

Digital disruption could be defined as ‘how technology is transforming industries and how leaders and organisations can respond’ (McKinsey and Company). Digital disruption has been intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic and as a result, post pandemic, VET-TEDD will provide college staff with access to free resources that will improve their confidence and competence in designing, implementing and enhancing digital learning.

VET-TEDD – Teachers Embracing Digital Disruption, has developed free & accessible resources to support the development of digital competence in Vocational Education Teachers. The development of a digital competency framework, a self-assessment tool, 6 micro-learning programmes and a diverse range of case studies supports vocational educators and enables them to improve vocational delivery through the seamless adoption of technologies that are disrupting vocational education. The project provides a skills pathway and resource library that upskills, build capacity and increase the opportunities for future solutions around digital learning.

Application of these outputs aimed to realise the following objectives:

1. Increase the use of digital technologies in VET delivery within the partner institutions by 25% by May 2021*
2. Increase the knowledge & skills of 500 VET delivery staff on the use of digital technologies in their curriculum by May 2021
3. Increase the accessibility of digital resources for VET delivery staff across the EU by creating an online platform to be accessed by 50 institutions from across the EU by May 2021

*All objectives were extended to May 2021, due to a project extension.

The project partners included City of Glasgow College (Scotland), European Institute for Innovation – Technology – EIfI-Tech (Germany), TKNIKA (the Basque Country), Solski Center Nova Gorica (Slovenia), Noorderpoort (the Netherlands), SPEV (Czech Republic) and ROC A12 – Astrum College (the Netherlands). All project partners were chosen in response to a demonstrated track record of technological innovations and their experience and expertise in technology enhanced learning, professional and personal development, teacher training and curriculum development as well as experience of working on a range of EU programmes including Erasmus Plus under KA1 and KA2.

Participants were primarily drawn from vocational institutions inside and outside the partnership. Key national and international organisations including; College Development Network – Scotland, the i-Coach Network – the Netherlands, the Slovenian Education Network – Slovenia and the UNEVOC Network – Germany, were engaged by the project team throughout the lifespan of the project. Additional participants included education managers, learning technologists and other educators with an interest in technology enhanced learning.

The VET-TEDD partnership is aligned to the horizontal priorities;

• Introducing systematic approaches to, and opportunities for, the initial and continuous professional development of VET teachers, trainers and mentors.
• Further strengthening key competences in VET

It also considers a range of supporting EU policies, frameworks and agendas including Europe 2020, ET 2020, Erasmus+, Riga Conclusions, EU Skills Agenda and a number of local education and labour market policies and strategies including The Digital Skills Crisis report 16/17 (UK), Digital Slovenia 2020 (Slovenia) and the strategy of the Educational Policy (Czech Republic).

The longer term sustainability of the project will be ensured through the development of employer/educator/research networks and integration of project outputs into project partners core functions.

Project Website

https://vet-tedd.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 232221,91 Eur

Project Coordinator

CITY OF GLASGOW COLLEGE & Country: UK

Project Partners

• EUROPAISCHES INSTITUT FUR INNOVATION-TECHNOLOGIE EV
• ŠOLSKI CENTER NOVA GORICA
• Spolecnost pro pravni a ekonomicke vzdelavani, z.s.
• EUROPAISCHES INSTITUT FUR INNOVATION EV
• ROC Noorderpoort
• TKNIKA
• Stichting Chr onderwijsgroep Vallei en Gelderland-Midden