Four vocational colleges in sports education, based in The Netherlands, Finland, Spain and Germany have discussed the possibility to create a concept for a transnational curriculum which allows students to enhance their professional Skills and Knowledge with a very specific subject through international exchange. Note: vocational education in this situation is at EQF 4, not at higher education. For this purpose a carousel with modules is to be developed. Each module is explicit characteristic for the college performing the module. The Skills and Knowledge is not available as such within the other colleges. The modules will be designed with several European assumptions/tools for VET and transnational relations/insights (such as eTwinning, ECVET, Skills Agenda, badges, etc.). The module carousel in vocational sports education provide secondary vocational students in sport a better entry to the European realm in sports and/or a higher education in sports. And the development process will deliver a blueprint for constructing similar settings in other VET domains. The intention is to have both test runs with teachers and students, leading to a integration of the carousel in the regular educational program before the end of the project. And that other colleges will join the carousel after the first multiplier event using the concept blueprint. This way we create a real product in operational form with the carousel, which can be evaluated once more in a ‘live’ situation and an additional test stage of the blueprint. Several EU-tools for VET will be incorporated in the module carousel. Though the intent is also to experiment with different digital tools to experience the effects of such application for future devlopments (i.e. Open Badges). Vier onderwijsinstituten binnen de sector sport, komend uit Nederland, Finland, Spanje en Duitsland, hebben de mogelijkheid besproken om een concept te maken van een transnationaal curriculum dat MBO-studenten sport (NLQF 4) de kans biedt om hun Kennis en Vaardigheden te vergroten met een zeer specifiek onderwerp door internationale uitwisseling. Opm: beroepsonderwijs is in dit geval op MBO Niveau 4 en niet het hoger onderwijs. Hiervoor is een module carrousel uitgedacht dat ontwikkeld moet worden. Elke module is kenmerkend voor het college dat de uitvoering verzorgt. De daar aangeboden Kennis en Vaardigheden zijn niet te verkrijgen bij de andere colleges. De modules zijn vormgegeven met allerlei Europese uitgangspunten voor VET en transnationale relaties/inzichten (zoals eTwinning, ECVET, Skills Agenda, badges, etc.). De module carrousel in het MBO Sport en Bewegen biedt MBO-studenten sport een betere toegang tot de Europese arbeidsmarkt en/of een hogere vervolgopleiding. Het ontwikkelingsproces zal ook een blauwdruk opleveren, waarmee andere domeinen binnen VET ook een gelijksoortige ontwikkeling kunnen doen. De bedoeling is dat er test sessies gedaan worden met docenten/specialisten en met studenten, die er toe moeten leiden dat de carrousel al voor het eind van het project geïntegreerd zijn in het reguliere onderwijsaanbod. En dat andere onderwijsinstituten zijn aangehaakt na het eerste multiplier event gebruikmakend van de blauwdruk. Hiermee realiseren we een operationeel eindproduct dat feitelijk in een ‘live’ situatie nog eens kan worden beoordeeld, en een test van de ontwikkelde blauwdruk. Diverse EU-gereedschappen voor VET zullen toegepast worden in de carrousel. Echter er zal ook geëxperimenteerd worden met andere digitale gereedschappen om de effecten te kunnen vaststellen voor toekomstige ontwikkelingen (bijv. Open Badges).
Through the project we aim to achieve that: - Partners gained experience in developing transnationally recognisable educational products using ECVET principles - There will be an exchange programme for students from sports colleges based on a specialist offer from each college that will be fitted into the regular annual programme as a Module Carousel consisting of specialist modules. - There is a model/blueprint for other sports colleges in Europe to hook into this Module Carousel. Or that other education sectors can leverage the same system to go through a similar process for their own sector. - Staff members/teachers at the colleges can take note of the knowledge of the field of sport and physical activity available at the other colleges. - Opportunities are provided for other sports colleges to participate in the Module Carousel after developing their own module based on ECVET principles.
The objective of making the application lies in the fact that the partners wanted to organise a cooperation in the field of curriculum development within secondary vocational sports education (MBO), but had no experience in this field themselves. Also due to the fact that within the sports sector this had never been realised for secondary vocational sports education. And the desire to do this based on the specific knowledge of the colleges available in a unique offering, like a carousel. The carousel is intended to allow students to take part in the developed modules all at the same time at a fixed time within the annual programme. Thereby, the desire is to use this project to gain the experience needed to look at the formation of a European curriculum in secondary vocational sports education in a much larger veranda and with higher intentions, as it does not yet exist in the form of a model with Units of Learning Outcomes. In this project, we managed to create one for the modules innen the Module Carousel. But the desire is to do this for the established curriculums in the countries that have now participated in totality. For even broader international qualification recognition.