Promoting web 2.0 uptake for organisational and
personnel development in VET and adult training
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How SVEA works
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What is SVEA all about?
o Promotion of the web 2.0 uptake in VET and Adult Training
o Focus:
- Strengthen the trainers’ know-how
- Strengthen the use of Web 2.0 in VET and Adult Training Institutions
o Activities:
- Collaborative Online-Platform
- Web 2.0 Training program
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The SVEA regional needs analysis
is 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
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SVEA Regional Analysis: Main Findings
Barriers in the uptake of web 2.0 in VET and Adult training:
1) Cultural / Acceptance
• Lack of students motivation
• Lack of acceptance
• The mixing of work and social life
• Strong reservation
2) Structural / Institutional
• Institutional policy
• Lack of money and time
• Legal responsability
3) Technological
• Digital gap
• Usability
• Lack of safety
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SVEA Regional Analysis: Main Findings
Benefits in the uptake of web 2.0 in VET and Adult training:
1) Cultural
• High level of collaboration
• Chance to acquire new knowledge very quickly
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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
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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
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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
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Main Features #1
Multilingualism
Dashboard
Blog
Notebook / Wiki
Case Tracker
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Main Features #2
Bookmarks
Shoutbox
My list
Calendar
Filedepot
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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.
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Dashboard
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Notebook
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Notebook
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Case Tracker:
case assigment
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Case Tracker:
Closed case
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Blog
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Bookmarks
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Shoutbox
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Documents
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Calendar
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Member‘s profile
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Search Engine
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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
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Web 2.0 Training Modules
The SVEA Learning modules cover the following topics:
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Online Learning
Facebook
Blogging and Microblogging
Video Sharing (You Tube)
Document Sharing (Google Docs)
Social Bookmarking (delicious)
Wikis
Web 2.0 Communications
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What comes next?
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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
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Simona Pede
MFG Baden-Württemberg,
Breitscheidstr. 4,
D-70174 Stuttgart
Email: pede@mfg.de,
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