The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the reality of the education sector and has highlithened the need to transform the existing training systems to meet the current challenges. Just like all other education institutions, VET providers are facing the necessity to reinvent their learning environments so that digitalisation expands and complements the education process. Shifting from school-based education to learning via online platforms and the need for digital content have revealed not only the shortage of the digital technology at schools but also a significant lack of digital skills of teachers and trainers. Even before the COVID-19 crisis teachers in many countries reported the need for ICT training (OECD, 2019). The e-VET project seeks to establish a transnational partnership focusing on the needs of VET providers in view of the digital transformation of the education sector. The project partners will research and analyse the existing digital training solutions, methodologies and techniques for distance learning in order to identify the ones that are easily adaptable and transferrable to different VET training programmes. All the findings will be compiled in the Guidelines for Delivering Remote Teaching in VET. The project contributes to the Covid-19 situation by improving VET teachers’ digital competences not only to use the most up-to edge technologies but also encouraging them to be creators of the digital content which meets the best educational and pedagogical requirements. The project partnership seeks to create the so-called soft results - development of digital skills and guidelines, which could become a valuable resource of educational institution and in the long run ensuring quality and inclusive teaching and learning in various situations, e.g. remote learning due to various reasons such as quarantine, sickness, Erasmus mobility, revision, apprenticeship. The project forms a Strategic Partnership to support digital education in the EU aiming at: - Improving teachers’ digital competences to empower them not only to use various ready-made digital resources in remote and hybrid teaching but also to encourage them to be creators of digital content of vocational curricular by providing a practical training on using various apps, software and learning environments. - Developing the guidelines that will facilitate provision of remote/hybrid training for VET providers. - Implementing short-term transnational training activities for trainers of VET institutions who will be able to use the acquired knowledge and skills for the development of digital content and implementation of remote/hybrid training. - Establishing preconditions for the creation of international virtual learning environment and development of the joint VET programme among the partner organizations. Main target groups addessed: - VET teachers and trainers; - VET students; - VET providers; - Stakeholders (employers, associations, chambers).
The following objectives were set for the implementation of the project: - Improve teachers’ digital competences to empower them not only to use various ready-made digital resources in remote and hybrid teaching but also to encourage them to be creators of digital content of vocational curricula by providing practical training on using various apps, software and learning environments. - Develop the guidelines to facilitate provision of remote/hybrid training for VET providers. - Implement short-term transnational training activities for trainers of VET institutions who will be able to use the acquired knowledge and skills for the development of digital content and implementation of remote/hybrid training. - Establish preconditions for the creation of an international virtual learning environment and development of the joint VET programme among the partner organizations. Implementation: What activities did you implement?
The challenges brought to education sector by COVID-19 pandemic as well as shift to digitalisation were the main issues that inspired the project idea. The COVID-19 pandemic changed the reality of the education sector and highlighted the need to transform the existing training systems to meet the challenges and continue teaching/learning online. Just like all other education institutions, VET providers were facing the necessity to reinvent their learning environments so that digitalisation expanded and complemented the education process. Shifting from school-based education to learning via online platforms and the need for digital content revealed not only the shortage of the digital technology at schools but also a significant lack of digital skills of teachers and trainers. Even before the COVID-19 crisis teachers in many countries reported the need for ICT training (OECD, 2019). The e-VET project sought to establish a transnational partnership focusing on the needs of VET providers in view of the digital transformation of the education sector. The project partners had to research and analyse the existing digital training solutions, methodologies and techniques for distance learning in order to identify the ones that are easily adaptable and transferrable to different VET training programmes and to compile the findings in the Guidelines for Delivering Remote Teaching in VET. The project had to contribute to the Covid-19 situation by improving VET teachers’ digital competences not only to use the most up-to edge technologies but also encouraging them to be creators of the digital content which meets the best educational and pedagogical requirements by providing a practical training on using various apps, software and learning environments. The project partnership sought to develop VET trainers’ digital skills in short-term transnational training activities and create the guidelines, as a resource for the development of digital content and implementation of remote/hybrid training in educational institutions, ensuring quality and inclusive teaching and learning in various situations, e.g. remote learning due to various reasons such as quarantine, sickness, Erasmus mobility, revision, apprenticeship. The project partnership intended to establish preconditions for the creation of an international virtual learning environment and development of the joint VET programme among the partner organizations.