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Fostering Digitisation and Industry 4.0 in vocational education and training

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2018-1-DE02-KA202-005145
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training Funder Contribution: 172,504 EUR

Fostering Digitisation and Industry 4.0 in vocational education and training

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Digitisation has become more and more important in the last years and we have seen big growth due to the pandemic. This goes hand in hand with trends towards mobile learning. The Erasmus+ project DigI-VET addressed new and innovative ways of learning and teaching in the age of digitisation and Industry 4.0. Not only has the partnership created awareness of the needs to address digitisation and Industry 4.0 in vocational education and training (VET), it has also developed a curriculum and learning resources for digitisation together with an innovative sMOOC for teachers and learners in VET which covers the most crucial aspects on the topic. In addition the DigI-VET book was created to address a broad audience with the current developments and challenges in the world of work and how it is affected by digitisation and what this means for VET and for VET educators. The aim was to create Digital Competence Profiles for VET. To provide direct impressions of digitisation and Industry 4.0 the project offers an online best practice site with showcases which provide insights into enterprises and companies and how they use digitisation today and what they expect for the future. This site provides teaching materials and examples with texts, audios, videos and photos and brings industry 4.0 directly to the learners in the classroom. Current Industry 4.0 approaches focus on a symbiosis between production and new IT technologies to enhance industry and gather adequate data. Here, digitisation is a key to handle these approaches. But this does not only mean changes in industry and production, this also means change and challenges in the field of VET. Digitisation and Industry 4.0 usually stands for the fourth industrial revolution. This means digitisation of products as end-to-end digitisation. This includes the expansion of existing products but also requirements for new competences. For VET teachers the core challenge is to gather information about the rapidly changing environment and to find adequate ways to deliver this new information to the learners.Therefore, DigI-VET started with an acceptance study in the partner countries to get a European view on acceptance, experience, problems and opportunities in the fields of digitisation and industry 4.0. Target groups were teachers, trainers, learners and VET educators. The survey examined what these target groups in VET think about digitisation and how they integrate it in their teaching. Moreover, the surveys focused on the challenges of industry 4.0 in a VET environment and gathered information on how the aspect of creating a digital economy influences teaching and learning. In additional desktop research the partners also gathered information about mobile learning in their national contexts and the EU.The partners created a book in English on digitisation and Industry 4.0 and the influences on VET, where the survey results and the results of the desktop research as well as additional checklists and hints for teachers and trainers are provided. Due to several requests and high demand this book was also translated to German, even though it wasn’t originally planned.The project focused on the quantitative and qualitative research on the topic and the design of the DigI-VET book. Most of the work concerning matching of approaches and data planned for the meetings of the partners. The pandemic made this challenging and required the partners to find new ways of working together in a digital environment. The results of the surveys were presented in the book and together with the best practices and the DigI-VET sMOOC at the multiplier events.DigI-VET offers the innovative new world of work and IT to VET educational contexts and the curriculum helps teachers to integrate these new challenges into their daily teaching. The fifteen core results of the project DigI-VET are:(1) the DigI-VET Curriculum(2) the DigI-VET Learning and Teaching Resources(3) the DigI-VET Online Observatory with best practice information and videos(4) the DigI-VET Book on Digitisation and Industry 4.0 in European VET(5) the DigI-VET sMOOC(6) the DigI-VET research report(7) the DigI-VET dissemination materials (posters, leaflets, brochure, cards, pens, flyer)(8) the DigI-VET Website with Blog(9) the DigI-VET Checklist for VET educators and teachers(10) the DigI-VET videos (integrated in the website and the online observatory)(11) the DigI-VET OER strategy(12) the DigI-VET digitisation concept for VET(13) the DigI-VET publications, newsletter and press articles(14) the DigI-VET sMOOC Concept(15) the DigI-VET evaluation report

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