New competences for VET professionals to shift to using learning outcome contracts and on-line Learning Management Systems 2012-1-IE1-LEO05-04713 1
04713) Project Information Title: Project Number: New competences for VET professionals to shift to using learning outcome contracts and on- Line Learning Management Systems 2012-1-IE1-LEO05-04713 Year: 2012 Project Type: Status: Marketing Text: Summary: Transfer of Innovation granted IE-Ireland A number of current and future challenges in the Vocational Educational & Training (VET) sector across Europe are outlined in the EU Commission document "A new impetus for European cooperation in VET to support the Europe 2020 strategy" highlighting the importance of aspects such as attractiveness, quality and performance. The role of individual VET institution managers and their professional staff will be crucial in formulating and implementing fit-for-purpose responses to systemic sectoral changes such as the shift to learning outcomes and competence-based systems and the growing focus on the validation of prior learning. Despite the high number of papers and proposals calling for change in the VET sector, a key problem is that there is no simple guide for beginning such change. This pilot project resulted in the formulation of the implementation of a set of development best-practices (three core elements) in each partner organisation, enabling them, in turn, to document and report on the effectiveness of this transformation. The result is a 'process map' for the implementation of pedagogical systems of truly world-class standard across the VET sector. CONSORTIUM In 1999, as a result of the Bologna Declaration, those involved in the European Higher Education area had to respond to very similar challenges to those which the VET sector now faces. Engineers Ireland (which is responsible for the accreditation of all engineers certificates, diplomas and degree programmes in all Irish Universities and Institutes of Technology) proved highly responsive to the challenges of the Bologna process. As a result, Engineers Ireland is recognised as a pioneer in bringing about world-class pedagogical systems and processes, so much so that the organisation is a key signatory of the Washington Accord (http://www.washingtonaccord.org/), the main international accord for the mutual recognition of engineering qualifications and professional competence. Engineers Ireland has chosen a selection of European partners for this project, to ensure a range of experience, the ability to partake and benefit from the project and, in particular, the ability to widely disseminate the results of the project itself. Description: Themes: In October 2012, Engineers Ireland, in partnership with leading VET Training centres from around Europe, undertook a two year project to implement a workable guide for the transfer of quality development systems from the higher education sector to VET centres and staff across Europe. Funding for the project was provided as part of the European Commission s Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013, under the Leonardo da Vinci scheme which focuses on education and training. Alongside Engineers Ireland, partnering in the best-practice sharing project were the Louth and Meath Educational Training Board (Ireland), INOVINTER Vocational Training and Technological Innovation Centre (Portugal), the Spanish Confederation of Training Centres (Spain), Euroform RFS (Italy) and Norton Radstock College (UK). The project, which commenced in October 2012 and ended in September 2014, looked to implement a set of development best-practices in each partner organisation, enabling them in turn, to document and report on the effectiveness of this transformation. By the end of the project each project partner was equipped for the implementation of a mentoring system, a system of learning contracts and an on-line learning management system in their respective institutions. ** Labor market ** Others 2
04713) Project Information Sectors: ** Open and distance learning ** Vocational guidance *** Education Product Types: Product information: Projecthomepage: A workable guide for the transfer of quality development systems from the higher education sector to VET centres/staff. www.bestvet.eu 3
04713) Project Contractor Name: City: Country/Region: Organization Type: Homepage: The Institution of Engineers of Ireland Dublin Dublin IE-Ireland association/non-governmental organisation http://www.engineersireland.ie Contact Person Name: Address: City: Telephone: Fax: E-mail: Homepage: Simon Prdue 22 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland Dublin IE-Ireland 00353-1-6651326 00353-1-6651370 spurdue@engineersireland.ie http://www.engineersireland.ie 4
04713) Coordinator Name: City: Country/Region: Organization Type: Homepage: The Institution of Engineers of Ireland Dublin Dublin IE-Ireland association/non-governmental organisation http://www.engineersireland.ie Contact Person Name: Address: City: Telephone: Fax: E-mail: Homepage: Simon Prdue 22 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland Dublin IE-Ireland 00353-1-6651326 00353-1-6651370 spurdue@engineersireland.ie http://www.engineersireland.ie 5
Partner Partner 1 Name: City: Country/Region: Organization Type: Homepage: Louth Meath Education and Training Board Dundalk, Louth Dublin IE-Ireland others http://louthmeath.etb.ie/ Partner 2 Name: City: Country/Region: Organization Type: Homepage: INOVINTER Vocational Training and Technological Innovation Center Lisbon Lisboa PT-Portugal others http://www.inovinter.pt Partner 3 Name: City: Country/Region: Organization Type: Homepage: CECE - Spanish Confederation Of Training Centres Madrid Comunidad De Madrid ES-Spain others http://www.cece.es Partner 4 Name: City: Country/Region: Organization Type: Homepage: Euroform RFS (Research Training Studies) Rende (CS) Calabria IT-Italy others http://www.euroformrfs.it 6
Partner Partner 5 Name: City: Country/Region: Organization Type: Homepage: Norton Radstock College Radstock Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and North Sommerset UK-United Kingdom others http://www.nortcoll.ac.uk 7
Project Files BESTVET Final Report and Recommendations.pdf http://www.adam-europe.eu/prj/10186/prj/bestvet%20final%20report%20and%20recommendations.pdf Final Report and Recommendations EfVET Annual Conference 2014 Paper - Process Map and Guide.pdf New competences for VET professionals to shift to using learning outcome contracts http://www.adam-europe.eu/prj/10186/prj/efvet%20annual%20conference%202014%20paper%20- %20Process%20Map%20and%20Guide.pdf EfVET Conference Paper 2014 English Version - Process Map and Guide.pdf http://www.adam-europe.eu/prj/10186/prj/english%20version%20-%20process%20map%20and%20guide.pdf Final Evaluation Report.pdf http://www.adam-europe.eu/prj/10186/prj/final%20evaluation%20report.pdf Final Evaluation Report 8
Products 1 2 3 4 5 BestVET Project Website Video Lesson - How to use mybrainshark Technology Video Lesson - How to use TED-ED Video Editing Technology Process Map and Guide BESTVET Evaluation Report 9
Product 'BestVET Project Website' New competences for VET professionals to shift to using learning outcome contracts Title: BestVET Project Website Product Type: website Marketing Text: The project website showcases the project partners, project news and project documentation. The website is available in all the languages of the project partners: English, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish. www.bestvet.eu Description: This website is the main medium by which the project 'process map and guide' for other VET institutions to introduce similar best practices into their institutions, will be published. Target group: Project Partners and VET professionals/institutions across Europe. Result: Sustainable bank of knowledge and information regarding Mentoring, Learning Contracts and Learning Management Systems for VET professionals/institutions to use into the future. Area of application: VET institutions across Europe Homepage: www.bestvet.eu Product Languages: English &prd=1 10
Product 'Video Lesson - How to use mybrainshark Technology' Title: Video Lesson - How to use mybrainshark Technology Product Type: material for open learning Marketing Text: This is a video guide on how to use mybrainshark technology. Description: MyBrainshark.com is an online free software package that enables users to edit their existing PowerPoint presentations/lessons to include audio and questions directly onto the presentation. This file can then be converted to a video file and the video link can be shared via email, website and learning management systems. Target group: Project Partners and other VET Professionals/institutions across Europe Result: This technology enhances the interactivity of existing lessons and makes the job sharing information easier for VET professionals. Area of application: VET institutions across Europe Homepage: http://my.brainshark.com/mybrainshark-presentation-612042259 Product Languages: English &prd=2 11
Product 'Video Lesson - How to use TED-ED Video Editing Technology' Title: Video Lesson - How to use TED-ED Video Editing Technology Product Type: material for open learning Marketing Text: TED-Ed Video editing technology lets users edit existing YouTube clips to add questions and tests to create a more interactive video lesson experience (http://ed.ted.com/) Description: This video was made using mybrainshark technology which was explained in the previous product. Target group: VET professionals/institutions across Europe Result: This technology enables VET professionals to enhance their class lessons and online e- learning offerings to their students. Essentially these online video lesson editing tools help VET professionals to do their job of educating easier and more effective. Area of application: VET institutions across Europe Homepage: http://my.brainshark.com/ted-ed-presentation-306544765 Product Languages: English &prd=3 12
Product 'Process Map and Guide' Product Type: New competences for VET professionals to shift to using learning outcome contracts Title: Process Map and Guide Marketing Text: The BESTVET Total Development System Process Map and Guide is now freely available to all via the BESTVET project website in the four different languages of the project: English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Description: This document, used in-tandem, with the supporting documentation, has been designed to act as a guide for VET institutions looking to implement these the best practices of mentoring, learning contracts and online learning management systems into their institutions. Target group: All VET Institutions across Europe Result: This document is the culmination of 2 years of hard work by each partner involved in this Lifelong Learning Project. The task now is to disseminate the Process Map and Guide to all relevant VET institutions across Europe. Documentation regarding the project will be distributed at the annual EfVET Conference in Porto in October 2014. Area of application: All VET Institutions across Europe Homepage: http://bestvet.eu/?page_id=137 Product Languages: English &prd=4 13
Product 'BESTVET Evaluation Report' New competences for VET professionals to shift to using learning outcome contracts Title: BESTVET Evaluation Report Product Type: evaluation methods Marketing Text: Comprehensive external evaluation report of BESTVET project Description: This report was compiled by the project external evaluator, Dr Kiran Sarma NUI Galway. This comprehensive report brings together all the lessons learned from the multiple individual evaluation reports and learning diaries from throughout the project. Target group: VET Professional across Europe Result: This report shows future institutions the possible pitfalls in the process of introducing a Total Development System (Mentoring, Learning Contracts, Learning Management System) into their institution. It will also identify what worked well in the project and what processes should be continued in the future. This report also shows what works in different countries as clash of culture can be the biggest barrier to successful implementation of the BESTVET total development system. Area of application: Planning Stage of implementation process Homepage: http://bestvet.eu/?attachment_id=1683 Product Languages: English &prd=5 14
Events Italy Symposium - April 8th - 11th, 2014 Date 08.04.2014 Description The purpose of the visit to Italy in April 2014 was to gather a rich picture of the impact of the project and its components initiatives. The project evaluator, Dr. Kiran Sarma, attended the symposium to the complete range of aspects of the evaluation. The final symposium of the pilot phase of the project took place in Cosenza, Italy from April 8th-11th, 2014. This partner meeting took place after the completion of the implementation phase of the project so the focus of the symposium was to evaluate the implementation phase and project as a whole. To assist in this evaluation, the external evaluator for the project, Dr. Kiran Sarma NUIG, travelled with the partner group to Italy to conduct a series of face-to-face interviews with each partner to determine the success and lessons learned of the project. These evaluation interviews, combined with previous symposium and learning diary evaluation report, were compiled by Dr. Kiran Sarma to form the overall project evaluation report. In addition to these face-to-face interviews project coordinator, Simon Purdue Engineers Ireland, guided the group through a comprehensive evaluation of the project from start to finish. Each partner was encouraged to present their views on the different aspects of the project that worked well and didn t work well for their institution. This evaluation session produced an interesting group discussion on how other VET institutions would be able to introduce the BESTVET Total Development System into their institutions. This group discussion, in tandem with the overall project evaluation report, formed the basis for Process Map and Guide document that will be the main output of the project. The project partners collaborated via email and video conference in the weeks after the symposium to produce the final Process Map and Guide document and supporting materials which are now available via the BESTVET website in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. Target audience Public Contact Information Time and place All the partners in the project Event is open to the public spurdue@engineersireland.ie April 8-11 Cosenza, Italy 15
Events EfVET Conference Annual - October 2013 Date 23.10.2013 Description Target audience Public Contact Information Time and place The objective of this conference was to disseminate the project status and results to wider VET Audience. The conference allowed the partners to broadcast to the key target group of the project: VET professionals. VET professionals across Europe. Event is open to the public spurdue@engineersireland.ie Athens, Greece October 23-26, 2013 Madrid Symposium - September 24-27, 2013 Date 23.09.2013 Description The purpose of the visit to Madrid in September 2014 was to give the partners a refresher on all materials covered to date and share experiences, challenges and achievements. All partners have developed a plan for implementation of their "total system development" which each partner presented at the symposium. Target audience Public Contact Information Time and place All the partners in the project Event is open to the public spurdue@engineersireland.ie Madrid September 24th-27th, 2013 16
Events UK Symposium - June 4th-7th, 2013 Date 04.06.2013 Description The purpose of the visit to England in June 2013 was to share best practices in terms of management system with project partners learning. This was achieved through practical workshops conducted based on laptops by each partner. Partners have left the conference with a better knowledge and understanding of learning management systems and video editing software and other lesson the benefits of using this technology, in addition to the class room based learning. Target audience Public Contact Information Time and place All the partners in the project. Event is open to the public spurdue@engineersireland.ie Bristol June 4th- 7th, 2013 Dublin Symposium - March 11-15, 2013 Date 11.03.2013 Description The purpose of the visit to Dublin in March 2013 was to share best practices in terms of learning performance contracts with project partners. This was achieved through the theory and lecture hall class that were supplemented by roleplaying and team exercises. Partners have left the conference with a better knowledge and understanding of the learning performance contracts to implement a similar system in their organization - with the continued support of the leader. Target audience Public Contact Information Time and place All the partners in the project Event is open to the public spurdue@engineersireland.ie Dublin, Engineers Ireland March 11-15, 2013 17
Events Lisbon Symposium November 26th-30th, 2012 Date 26.11.2012 Description The purpose of the visit to Portugal in November 2012 was to share Engineers Ireland's mentoring masterclass best practices with the project partners. These objectives have been achieved in the form of the theory and lecture hall class which was supplemented by role playing, team exercises and a tour of the organization, EDP, to discuss their programs mentoring best practices. Partners left the Lisbon symposium with a better knowledge and understanding of mentoring and sufficient material and practical to implement a pilot mentoring program - with the continued support of the leader. Target audience Public Contact Information Time and place All partners involved in the project. And certain employees of EDP distribution. Event is open to the public Simon Purdue - spurdue@engineersireland.ie Lisbon November 26-30, 2012 18
Project Tags The project belongs to the following group(s): NetWBL (http://www.adam-europe.eu/adam/thematicgroup/netw) 15