The aim of the partnership is to design and develop a Innovative Multimedia Platform for the Presentation of Professional Qualifications (SHOW-VET) and to apply the platform in vocational education and training in the field of agricultural sciences in the period of 24 months. Using innovative solutions applied on the platform, we will present in a novel way selected professional qualifications, taking into account their diversity and the necessary methods of teaching and verification of knowledge during educational work. The introduction of new methods and tools for vocational education will enable practitioners, instructors and students to cooperate in practice, in practice more effective and practical than conventional, and more expressive and efficient than the traditional application of technology in teaching. Direct participants will be: - Schools educating agricultural technicians, as well as interested in cooperation of a vocational education institution with a similar or related profile; - Agricultural companies interested in the appropriate preparation of future employees for work in agricultural production; - Other education and training establishments; The project provides for: 1. Development of a methodology for presenting Agricultural Qualifications, taking into account their diversity and the necessary methods of teaching and verification of knowledge during educational work, 2. Designing the SHOW-VET system from the functional efficiency side enabling the presentation of the scope of Qualifications and teaching materials necessary to join the process of acquiring qualifications in an accredited entity with on-line access on the website. 3. The development of the SHOW-VET system using the methods of implementing final products through the phase of solution planning, testing and implementation of the final product, 4. Designing the usability model with the simultaneous implementation on the SHOW-VET platform of selected Professional Qualifications by the Applicant and Partners of the project 5. Applications of SHOW-VET in teaching in the field of agriculture, The methods of work adopted in the implementation of the project and cooperation undertaken as part of the strategic partnership in this area include: - task work - the aim of which is to develop teaching materials for the interactive educational module; - conceptual work - the purpose of which is to develop the concept of the functionality of the IT tool; - developing solutions - building an IT system SHOW-VET with simultaneous verification of the assumptions and functionalities of the system; - implementation phase - providing an internet platform for entities interested in improving professional qualifications. In the first stage, the task will be clarified and the concept of functionality and possibilities of using the IT system will be determined. The project will then be developed in a form useful for practical use, taking into account the expectations of end users. The model set of assumptions and description of the software structure will be complete only when information about the expected and possible behavior of all elements of the module and their relationship in the learning processes is attached. The result will be the creation of a uniform system model playing the most important role in achieving the project's goal. The concept of the IT system for the purposes of acquiring new professional qualifications will be based on the created interactive cognitive module, in which the knowledge acquisition strategy promotes active forms of presentation through attractive and friendly forms of visualization, instead of the classic textual description of a given qualification and processes that make it known and assimilated. Thanks to these solutions, it will be possible, for example, to make the educational program more attractive, improve the work of didactic units, improve the quality of education, raise motivation to learn and work, and support human capital that goes to enterprises using similar solutions in economic practice and agricultural production processes. The potential long-term benefits of such a project are the possibility of further cooperation and exchange of experience, knowledge and good practices. It is also exploring practical solutions in education, raising professional qualifications, establishing contacts and developing or transferring innovation.
Through the implementation of the project, we wanted to fill the gap in the presentation of professional qualifications visible in both public and commercial resources and develop a tool that will allow the students to comprehensively show the specificity of a given qualification/profession and enable them to fully consciously join the process of obtaining these qualifications. Project outcomes are also expected to create an effective link between educational institutions and employers in the specific field and facilitate a coordinated approach in workplace training. In addition, the project made it possible to collect various experiences of partner countries in the implementation of a system based on qualifications frameworks and to improve these systems through a uniform and universal way of presenting selected qualifications. The project also contributed to the importance and practical use of knowledge and skills in the field of precision farming and the use of modern technologies in agriculture. Didactic materials produced in the project will enrich the didactic workshop of the staff of agricultural faculties.
The main motivation for the implementation of this project was the need to supplement the professional qualifications system with a solution presenting the various stages of acquiring professional qualifications and to improve this process using an innovative approach to digital technologies in the teaching system, acquiring knowledge, skills and competences among young students preparing to start their professional careers. The project is closely related to the Integrated Qualifications System, which describes, organizes and collects various qualifications in one publicly available register - the so-called Integrated Qualifications Register. The system, which is constantly developing, but above all expanding the base of professions, fulfills its role, as the number of people interested in formal confirmation of their competences, as well as improving their professional qualifications, is increasing. Our solution supports this process and enables a more complete presentation of the selected qualification using modern methods. The user of the SHOW-VET platform, in addition to learning the basic features of a given profession, has the opportunity to learn how the qualification process is conducted before its formal commencement.