About the Project

DiTRAVET (“Digital transformation for VET”, 2020-1-UK01-KA226-VET-094509) is a two-year partnership for Digital Education Readiness co-financed by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

The consortium involves six different organisations from UK, Italy, Finland, Spain, Netherlands and Ireland. These organisations will work together in order to promote the development of digital skills and support VET schools, students and families in tackling the digital challenges brought by the COVID19 pandemic.

Home confinement and social distancing have forced the European VET providers to review current working practices and focus on remote delivery. Senior leaders and teachers have faced problems adapting to more blended or online only curriculum delivery models. This has also highlighted differences between students with varying social profiles, with students from disadvantaged backgrounds being more proportionally impacted. The current VET tools, including SELFIE, do not accommodate application in Work-based learning (WBL) context.

The project aims to fill these gaps by supporting VET institutions in the digital transformation process in order to improve participation and allow a more effective use of digital tools for educational purposes.

Objectives

The project proposes to:

Support teachers to provide to those students with the necessary tools and skills to undertake a remote learning.
Update and apply the SELFIE tool, with recommendations from WBL.
Training teachers about tools that support the digitalization of schools in the field of VET, including tools for creating online resources and performing Blended Learning.
Work with VET leaders and teachers in order to allow them to reinvent teaching.
Develop guidelines and update teaching and learning strategies at national/regional level. Work with VET providers to inform them of accreditation/evaluation methods, e.g.micro-credentials.

Results

IO1 – 360 Degree review of Digital Transformation VET curriculum for Work-Based Learning

The aim of this IO is to fully understand the gaps in WBL related to digitalization and blended learning. The needs of the main target groups will be taken into account (Families,
Trainers and Directors-Managers) to deliver a three-dimensional curriculum in digital transformation manager of a VET school. Moreover, to feed this curriculum, an assessment
of digital readiness of the VET schools will be done using different frameworks for that aim but with special focus on the SELFIE (Self-reflection on Effective Learning by Fostering the use of Innovative Educational Technologies) tool.

IO1 – Good Practices and Issues found during pandemic in VET (a desk research) (T1.1 and 1.3)

IO1 – SELFIE assessment and focus group – Summary Report (T1.2)

IO2 – Practical toolkit for digital and inclusive education

According to the results of IO1, the consortium will develop an Education toolkit for senior leaders, teachers, curriculum developers and learners. The aim of this IO is to support:
1) VET schools directors to lead digital transformation within their organizations. Design and implement VET Curriculum Delivery Framework and Teaching and Learning Strategies.
2) Teachers to develop high quality, inclusive digital education resources for a set of units that incorporate adaptive learning.
3) Students to acquire basic digital competences.

IO3 – Digital Badge: Quality Assurance Framework for the recognition of online training/industrial skills.

This IO aims to recognise those gaps in online training / industrial skills accreditation. The IO will study the current EU situation, especially in the partner’s countries, about how VET WBL has been undertaken during Covid19 crisis and will offer sustainable and relevant suggestions for improvement and contingency action in recession times.

News & Resources

The SELFIE Work Based Learning scoping study

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission has published the report: SELFIE Work Based Learning scoping study: a potential role in linking companies and regional innovation with VET schools The report discusses the role of SELFIE WBL in connecting...

The Microcredentials

One of the objectives of the Ditravet project, project number 2020-1-UK01-KA226-VET-094509, is to analyze the recognition at the national level of micro-credentials. At the European level, with the Recommendation “on a European approach to micro-credentials for...

In Rotterdam for the 6th transnational meeting

The 6th and 7th of June partners have joined the 6th Transnational Meeting of the Ditravet project, organized by the Albeda partners. The meeting represented an opportunity to have a look at the ongoing activities. At the moment partners are finalising the digital...