Deal with Digital Work-Based Learning – Qualitäts- und Kompetenzrahmen für die digitale Transformation

Digital transformation is already reshaping society, the labour market and the future of the economy. Employers face challenges in recruiting highly qualified workers in different economic sectors. Vocational education and training (VET) systems are consequently undergoing an unprecedented impact that has made it necessary to rethink teaching methodologies based on experiential learning, including: workshop-based teaching activities, work-based learning, apprenticeships and all learning experiences in conditions of direct use of skills in the work environment.

The “Deal with Digital WBL” project partnership sets out to promote good practice in digital work-based learning and in empowering VET teachers and all teachers and trainers in practice-oriented education in providing good quality digital work-based learning experiences. For this, a framework of innovative pedagogical approaches and an appropriate quality framework to support the digital transformation of work-based learning experiences are being developed, extended by a competence framework on emerging digital skills for the VET trainer needed to innovate Work-based Learning methodology, laboratory and experiential online learning.

VET trainers and trainers in practice-oriented education will be encouraged to acquire specific competences to design, deliver, evaluate and validate skills learned through Digital Work-based Learning experiences and catered with an online training course to enrich their digital (teaching) skills. The project aims at creating stimulating and inclusive opportunities for VET trainers and trainers in practice-oriented education to further their professional development and to make training opportunities based on Digital Work-based Learning that are more attractive and accessible to learners.

The following results will be developed:

• a framework of innovative pedagogical approaches and an appropriate quality framework to support the digital transformation of work-based learning experiences;
• a competence framework on emerging digital skills for the VET trainer needed to innovate Work-based Learning methodology, laboratory and experiential online learning;
• a training course to enrich the digital skills of VET trainers, available at a distance on the „Deal with Digital Work-Based Learning“ platform

The consortium is coordinated by Sistemi Formativi Confindustria SCPA (Italy) and consists of DHBW Karlsruhe, CIS Scuola Per La Gestione d’Impresa (Italy), Panevezio kolegija (Lithuania), Hanse-Parlament (Germany), Universitat Oberta De Catalunya (Spain), Ipartestuletek Orszagos Szovetsege (Hungary) and Dinamo Adv Srl (Italy).

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