The main concerns for VET teachers and trainers regarding distance learning are the use of equipment / reliability of internet connection, their own lack of digital skills / data protection.
For learners, there is no digital inclusion without social inclusion, marginalised and vulnerable learners are less likely to be involved in distance learning, which in turn, increases their chances of dropping out of VET.
It was raised that it might be difficult to motivate VET teachers involved in work-based learning into digital competence development earlier, however after Covid-19 this attitude may have now changed as digital learning has become a new normal.
Objectives of the DigMyVET project are to facilitate European VET centres to embed digital technologies into teaching, learning and assessment and provide VET centres with bespoke analysis and insight to support learners, teachers and training in adapting online learning.
Mainly secondary vocational schools will be involved in the testing and it should be launched in the near future. Partner organizations discussed the specific involvement of target groups in their countries, shared good experiences.
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The project has entered the next phase, we are currently preparing a tool for benchmarking in the vocational schools, an online course for educators and a set of tools for students. The meeting in Prague, in September 2022, was the third in a row and the second personal meeting of the partners of this project.
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In the first part of the project all partners were doing research in their countries as well as other EU countries to collect enough materials for the Integration Handbook which is the main output of the first project stage and is now in the process of translations into all partner countries. The handbook is full of good practices about how to teach / learn practical subjects in VET centres in case of distance learning. The second part of the meeting was about planning the next step which is going to be the Interactive Digital Strategy Benchmarking Tool.
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