Due to COVID-19 pandemy at the beginning of 2020 vocational education and training (VET) had to be transformed and moved from classrooms and workshops into digital learning environment. EU research indicates there is a considerable lack of digital and pedagogical competencies for distance teaching among teachers. Furthermore, when it comes to planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluating, there are some obvious discrepancies between traditional classes and distance learning. Especially in VET problems seem to be even more evident, as a distant high quality teaching in this field is much more demanding than teaching theoretical contents. VET must be supported by all tools necessary for overcoming challenges and motivating students to be able to keep learning in the context of uncertainty, stressful labour market anticipations and other economic and social consequences of the pandemic. The DIGIHiQVET project aims to an innovative and systematic approach to search for suitable solutions with an emphasis on teaching various practical contents in a variety of educational situations, which are appropriate for distance learning. In the project DIGIHiQVET we strive to develop, implement and evaluate a free access, innovative and high quality online training for practical classes E-teaching. The training will help the teachers in their professional development as they will be able to use the acquired knowledge, skills and competencies at their work as teachers of practical classes. Furthermore, they will upgrade their digital, innovative pedagogical competencies, and cooperative and innovative practices to develop new methods of distance teaching. The aim of DIGIHiQVET project is an empowerment of teachers and mentors of practical classes for the implementation of high quality educational situations referring to practical contents in the digital environment as a response to COVID-19 pandemy and all future challenges which might render live classes impossible. The project's objectives: -Upgrading of pedagogical and digital knowledge, skills and competencies of teachers and mentors in VET and qualifying them for the appropriate pedagogical implementation of the adequate educational situations of practical contents in distance learning, so that they will be equally efficient and of comparable quality to traditional performance in workshops. -Boosting of non-formal, professional distance education of teachers and mentors, which is accessible anywhere and anytime. -Improving distance education with an emphasis on practical classes for all students, including those with learning difficulties or students from socially disadvantaged groups. -Higher degree of practical classes flexibility and their successful inclusion in the forms of distance learning, combined classes or use for the period of teacher's replacement. -The primary target group of the DIGIHiQVET project is the teachers of practical contents and mentors in the field of VET, whereas the second target group consists of school leaderships, politicians, employers, practical classes organizers, other teachers and adult educators. Directs beneficiaries of the project are participating students involved in the VET processes, other students and adults included in lifelong learning. There are 5 partners from 5 different EU countries, among which there are 3 secondary level VET schools: BC Naklo as a project applicant, SOŠ Pruské from Slovakia, IES Virgen de la Cabeza from Spain; and two professional partners – ShipCon, an enterprise working in the field of VET and project application/implementation from Cyprus, and BETI – an institute in the field of educational technologies from Lithuania. It is a two-level structured project of intelectual outputs and cross-over activities: project management, monitoring and evaluation, and dissemination.. Project outputs: O1: STATE OF THE ART ANALYSIS of the existing tools, environments and applications for the practical distance teaching with the CASE STUDIES of good practices O2: The CURRICULUM OF WEB TRAINING »E-practical classes« and the preparation of professional modules knowledge catalogues O3 E-MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT and the ESTABLISHMENT OF WEB TRAINING - »E-practical classes« O4 SAMPLE E-LESSON PLANS, their e-implementation and practical evaluation The most important impact of the DIGIHiQVET project will be the improvement of digital and pedagogical competencies of teachers and mentors, increased self-esteem of teaching staff, greater readiness for international cooperation and project work… Students shall acquire equal vocational competencies and skills, irrespective of form and implementation of practical classes and improve their digital competencies. Materials in the projects will be developed in EN, SL, SK, ES, EL, LT and will be accessible on the web, namely on the website of the project functioning as an educational p
The DIGIHiQVET project aims to empower teachers and practical trainers to deliver quality learning situations of practical content in a digital environment in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and any future challenges that will potentially make face-to-face education impossible. Project objectives: -To upgrade the pedagogical and digital knowledge, skills and competences of VET teachers and tutors and to train them in the appropriate pedagogical teaching of suitable practical learning situations and practical contents in distance learning so that it would be as effective and of a quality comparable to the classical teaching in class/workshop. - Promote non-formal, professional distance learning for teachers and trainers, accessible anywhere and at any time. -Improve distance learning, with an emphasis on practical learning for all students, including students with learning difficulties and students from socially disadvantaged groups. -Increase the flexibility of practical lessons and successfully integrate them into distance learning, blended learning or use them for substitute teaching.
The COVID-19 pandemic in the early 2020s meant that vocational education and training in Europe went from physical classrooms and lassrooms to digital learning environments. Research at European level has shown a lack of digital and pedagogical competences for teachers to teach and for students to learn at a distance, as well as as well as a significant difference between the planning, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of traditional and distance learning. The problems were particularly evident in the professional Vocational education and training (VET), as the teaching and learning of quality practical distance learning is more demanding than theoretical content. tools and resources necessary to overcome the challenges and motivate students on their learning path in a context characterised by uncertainty, stressful labour market forecasts and other economic and social consequences of the pandemic. The DIGIHiQVET project takes an innovative and systematic approach to tackling the issues raised, with a focus on teaching practical content in a variety of learning situations suitable for distance education.