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Learning routes and tools for individual training
Learning routes and tools for individual training
Start date: Jan 1, 2015,
End date: Jun 30, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
The European instruments, like EQF and ECVET have an impact and force the training organizations all over Europe to engage in re-design their operational learning environments to reply to this new dimension and requirements of training.
But the easiest and most common approach to face this change seems no more than a splitting of the former and more extensive training courses, into more basic and short training activities, which are then grouped into training paths. It's just like if somehow we could cut in the curricula, the teaching resources and the learning time in small parts of a whole course and, actually, that has been the way most of the training organizations have been responding.
To reach a more appropriate and extensive response, even in the most traditional training environment, the consortium select for the proposal of this project a complex training workshop context, with practical/technological teaching activities, where learning levels would be very diverse and the training is conducted in simultaneous, therefore more demanding but also more profitable for the (future) exploitation of the project. The CNC – Computer Numerical Control, in the field of metalworking is definitely a training area where modularization and therefore individualized training have a great significance considering the previous premises.
The propose is to rebuild the training environment with innovative layouts, readapt the didactic resources, so the trainees may have a more independent learning and create navigation devices along the learning pathways, and also new tools for recording and monitoring the (individual) progress of the trainees that are simultaneously at different stages of training, prepare the trainers for new postures that will be required in this multi-learning pathways environment, asking for quite different and demanding attitudes as compared to the classical one.
To develop pedagogical approaches, teaching resources and adapt new pedagogies attitudes associated with this complex environment of the training, the project has 4 VET Entities that share the same technical and pedagogical skills demanded by the objectives of the project, as well as the same expectations expressed in the project purpose.
After the definition of the units of competency that will be implemented in pilot training, there will be an intense phase of development in which the partners will develop:
Conventional and non-conventional didactic and assessment resources and functionalities to support a (more) autonomous learning
E-learning platform and contents and other open educational resources to develop/adapt face-to-face as well as distance learning, and other kind of functionalities to assist the itinerancy in a mixed learning context.
Specific ICT tools and instruments to help the management of learners and teaching space in a complex and multiple shop-floor training context
A Guide (Manual) for Teachers and Trainers – new pedagogical attitudes and abilities in complexes training environments to prepare the tutor for a role less centered in the training process and with different roles to play: trainer, facilitator, tutor, e-trainer, coach, advisor, etc;
Layouts redesigning – Recommendations for rebuilding a new model of layout and its physical and technological items, incorporating concepts like ‘learning islands’ - as a space hub of all didactic resources needed for a given level of learning - and needs for roadmaps and signs for the learning itinerancy of the trainees.
But the partnership also counts on valuable participation of two National Boards for Education, Qualifications and Vocational Training, from Portugal (formally associated to the Consortium) and from Finland, whose intervention will be particularly important to study and establish the "units of competences" based on the principles of ECVET and that will be explored in the project, but also their ability to spread and influence the design of training opportunities in the countries of the partnership and in a European context more extended through its working and institutional networks.
Since the project intends to deal with the resources directly involved in the organization and training practice, it presents immediate conditions for its implementation in the participating VET entities and in the field of training selected for its testing - the CNC. However it also aims to radiate this experience to other areas and organizations; for that purpose, shall be compiled strategies, resources and project results in a Handbook and a didactic kit, that will be disseminated and made available at the end of the project to other organizations, with a strong expectation that it may influence policies and strategies of training, but also to enhance the inclusion of innovative and more effective practices in this challenging and exciting new teaching paradigm.