This chapter explores qualitative career assessment as an identity learning process where meaning-oriented learning is essential and distinguished from conditioned or semantic types of learning. In order to construct a career identity in the form of a future-oriented narrative, it is essential that learners are helped through cognitive learning stages with the help of a dialogue about concrete experiences which aims to pay attention to emotions and broadens and deepens what is expressed.
This paper deals with the problematic nature of the transition between education and the workplace. A smooth transition between education and the workplace requires learners to develop an integrated knowledge base, but this is problematic as most educational programmes offer knowledge and experiences in a fragmented manner, scattered over a variety of subjects, modules and (work) experiences. To overcome this problem, we propose a design approach and shifting the educational focus of attention from individual learners to learning environments. The broader notion of learning environments facilitates transitions by establishing horizontal connections between schools and the workplace. The main argument of this paper is that combining or connecting aspects of school-based settings only is not sufficient to ensure learners will develop an integrated knowledge base. The concept and examples of “hybrid learning environment” show how formal, school-based learning and workplace experiences can be closely connected. The paper offers a framework of four coherent perspectives that can help to understand the complex nature of such environments and to design hybrid learning environments: the “agency perspective”, the “spatial perspective”, the “temporal perspective”, and the “instrumental perspective”. The framework is applied to three cases taken from vocational education in the Netherlands to describe what hybrid learning environments look like in contemporary educational practice. RÉSUMÉ
Full text via link. In de periode van 2010 en 2017 is er in diverse projecten van het Kenniscentrum Sociale Innovatie en in de Wmo werkplaats Utrecht, veel kennis verkregen en ontwikkeld rondom het thema Informele Zorg. De Hogeschool en professionals uit de praktijk werkten samen met ervaringsdeskundige mantelzorgers. Er is onder andere een competentieprofiel ‘Professionele Samenwerking met Informele Zorg’ vastgesteld . Deze is bedoeld ter aanvulling op bestaande opleidingsprofielen. Om de competenties ook daadwerkelijk te kunnen verwerven is een e-learning ontwikkeld. Deze e-learning is bedoeld voor studenten en professionals die op MBO niveau (niveau 3 en 4) of op HBO niveau (niveau 6) een opleiding volgen of werkzaam zijn in de sector zorg en welzijn. Het gaat dan bijvoorbeeld om opleidingen en functies in: •Maatschappelijke zorg •Verpleegkundige •Verzorgende •Sociaal Werk
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Het RAAK-MKB project "(G)een Moer Aan" heeft zich gericht op het ontwerpen van een veilige en effectieve ondersteuning van een cobot in een productieomgeving. De focus is hierbij gelegd op productiehandelingen die in veel sectoren voorkomen en die relatief veel arbeidstijd kosten, zoals het indraaien van moeren en bouten in een object. Binnen het project is veel kennis opgedaan dit heeft geresulteerd in gripperontwerpen die in staat zijn een bout in een flens te draaien. Daarnaast is kennis gegeneerd van vision technieken om gaten e.d. te detecteren, en het meenemen van (beleefde) veiligheid in het ontwerp van een cobot systeem. Deze nieuw opgedane kennis is erg bruikbaar voor zowel de beroepspraktijk als voor de studenten in het onderwijs. Dat maakt het relevant voor (her)gebruik middels het nieuwe open-acces e-learning platform van Fontys: Open Learning Labs. Door trainingsmateriaal te ontwikkelen dat betrekking heeft op onder andere het aspect veilig ontwerpen, worden toekomstige engineers (de studenten) en zittend personeel bij bedrijven bekend met nieuwe technieken die toepasbaar zijn in diverse sectoren waar met robots gewerkt wordt. Het doel van deze Top-up aanvraag is tweeledig: 1) Het vergroten van de zichtbaarheid van de resultaten uit het initiële RAAK-project, zowel richting onderwijs, onderzoek en beroepspraktijk. 2) Het realiseren van trainingsmateriaal t.b.v. het rekening houden met en veilig ontwerpen van cobotsystemen. Door o.a. kennis aan te dragen omtrent het doen van een correcte risico analyse van het proces. Dit zal bij toekenning stapsgewijs uitgevoerd worden: 1. Definiëren inhoud lesmodules en bijbehorende didactische werkvormen 2. Realisatie PR- & instructievideo's en onderwijsopdrachten 3. Realisatie E-learning lesmodule Dit alles gekoppeld aan het open-acces e-learning platform Open Learning Labs van Fontys.
Teachers have a crucial role in bringing about the extensive social changes that are needed in the building of a sustainable future. In the EduSTA project, we focus on sustainability competences of teachers. We strengthen the European dimension of teacher education via Digital Open Badges as means of performing, acknowledging, documenting, and transferring the competencies as micro-credentials. EduSTA starts by mapping the contextual possibilities and restrictions for transformative learning on sustainability and by operationalising skills. The development of competence-based learning modules and open digital badge-driven pathways will proceed hand in hand and will be realised as learning modules in the partnering Higher Education Institutes and badge applications open for all teachers in Europe.Societal Issue: Teachers’ capabilities to act as active facilitators of change in the ecological transition and to educate citizens and workforce to meet the future challenges is key to a profound transformation in the green transition.Teachers’ sustainability competences have been researched widely, but a gap remains between research and the teachers’ practise. There is a need to operationalise sustainability competences: to describe direct links with everyday tasks, such as curriculum development, pedagogical design, and assessment. This need calls for an urgent operationalisation of educators’ sustainability competences – to support the goals with sustainability actions and to transfer this understanding to their students.Benefit to society: EduSTA builds a community, “Academy of Educators for Sustainable Future”, and creates open digital badge-driven learning pathways for teachers’ sustainability competences supported by multimodal learning modules. The aim is to achieve close cooperation with training schools to actively engage in-service teachers.Our consortium is a catalyst for leading and empowering profound change in the present and for the future to educate teachers ready to meet the challenges and act as active change agents for sustainable future. Emphasizing teachers’ essential role as a part of the green transition also adds to the attractiveness of teachers’ work.
The pressure on the European health care system is increasing considerably: more elderly people and patients with chronic diseases in need of (rehabilitation) care, a diminishing work force and health care costs continuing to rise. Several measures to counteract this are proposed, such as reduction of the length of stay in hospitals or rehabilitation centres by improving interprofessional and person-centred collaboration between health and social care professionals. Although there is a lot of attention for interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP), the consortium senses a gap between competence levels of future professionals and the levels needed in rehabilitation practice. Therefore, the transfer from tertiary education to practice concerning IPECP in rehabilitation is the central theme of the project. Regional bonds between higher education institutions and rehabilitation centres will be strengthened in order to align IPECP. On the one hand we deliver a set of basic and advanced modules on functioning according to the WHO’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and a set of (assessment) tools on interprofessional skills training. Also, applications of this theory in promising approaches, both in education and in rehabilitation practice, are regionally being piloted and adapted for use in other regions. Field visits by professionals from practice to exchange experiences is included in this work package. We aim to deliver a range of learning materials, from modules on theory to guidelines on how to set up and run a student-run interprofessional learning ward in a rehabilitation centre. All tested outputs will be published on the INPRO-website and made available to be implemented in the core curricula in tertiary education and for lifelong learning in health care practice. This will ultimately contribute to improve functioning and health outcomes and quality of life of patients in rehabilitation centres and beyond.
