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Promoting web 2.0 uptake for organisational and personnel development in VET and adult training. www.svea-project.eu. How SVEA works. What is SVEA all about?. Promotion of the web 2.0 uptake in VET and Adult Training Focus: - Strengthen the trainers’ know-how
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Promoting web 2.0 uptake for organisational and personnel development in VET and adult training www.svea-project.eu
What is SVEA all about? • Promotion of the web 2.0 uptake in VET and Adult Training • Focus: - Strengthen the trainers’ know-how - Strengthen the use of Web 2.0 in VET and Adult Training Institutions • Activities: - Collaborative Online-Platform - Web 2.0 Training program
The SVEA regional needs analysisis a result of 5 regional analyses conducted in the SVEA consortium regions. • The analysis was structured in four phases: • Stakeholder mapping • Desktop research • Phone interviews • Regional round table workshops
SVEA Regional Analysis: Main Findings • Barriers in the uptake of web 2.0 in VET and Adult training: • Cultural / Acceptance • Lack of students motivation • Lack of acceptance • The mixing of work and social life • Strong reservation • Structural / Institutional • Institutional policy • Lack of money and time • Legal responsability • 3) Technological • Digital gap • Usability • Lack of safety
SVEA Regional Analysis: Main Findings • Benefits in the uptake of web 2.0 in VET and Adult training: • Cultural • High level of collaboration • Chance to acquire new knowledge very quickly • Structural / Institutional • Cost effective delivery of courses online • Flexibilty of learning: anytime, anywhere • Course and tools learner-oriented • Building of a learning community • 3) Technological • Development of new underpinning knowledge and practical skills integrated with existing professional work-based competencies • Improved technical infrastructured
Scenario for an optimized implementation of web 2.0 tools in VET and adult traing • To respond to the needs identified during the analysis SVEA has: • Developed a collaborative • online platform to be used • by learners and trainers • Developed web 2.0 training which will be offered to VET and adult training trainers from May 2011 onwards
SVEA Platform • SVEA Platform is built using Open Atrium and has been designed to be easy-to-use and intuitive. • Platform in open source model • Create and edit content in different forms • Use the power of Drupal as a framework • Create subprojects with Features
Main Features #1 Multilingualism Dashboard Blog Notebook / Wiki Case Tracker
Main Features #2 Bookmarks Shoutbox My list Calendar Filedepot
How it works The main part of the SVEA platform is represented by the group space where a user can access all the available functionalities. The home page of the group space is a dashboard with several customizable mini widgets. They can be turned on and off and arranged to suit the individual user.
Case Tracker: case assigment
Case Tracker: Closed case
Web 2.0 Training The SVEA learning modules aims to support the trainers from VET and adult training institutions to actually use those social media tools within their training systems. • The SVEA learning modules are designed: • as part of a teacher-supported online or blended learning course • for individual learning • As well as group-based collaborative learning
Web 2.0 Training Modules • The SVEA Learning modules cover the following topics: • Online Learning • Facebook • Blogging and Microblogging • Video Sharing (You Tube) • Document Sharing (Google Docs) • Social Bookmarking (delicious) • Wikis • Web 2.0 Communications
What comes next? • March 2011: SVEA Platform for download online • April 2011: Training modules in English for download • May 2011: Start of the Training in the partners‘ regions, consant monitoring and improvement of the training modules • September 2011: Training modules for download in all partners‘ languages • November 2011: Publication of Guidelines on how to integrate Web 2.0 in VET and Adult Training
Simona Pede MFG Baden-Württemberg, Breitscheidstr. 4, D-70174 Stuttgart Email: pede@mfg.de, www.svea-project.eutwitter.com/SVEAproject