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BlendedVET – Create your blended learning course

How do you create a blended learning course? How do you transform existing materials into a blended learning course?

The project aims to create flexible online training for VET trainers willing to combine face-to-face and online instruction modalities. Blended learning has become a widespread teaching modality, especially in K-12 and higher education. The project is an answer to helping VET teachers to transform existing material into blended learning or create a blended learning course from scratch.

More specifically, we provide:

  • A through overview of the concept itself, target groups and its usefulness
  • A comprehensive learning package on how the creation of a blended learning course
  • A blended learning course, where we implemented all of the key aspects of the learning package

Want to take a look? https://blendedvet.eu/

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Job Shadowing Trips To And From Chemnitz

Guests from Belgium and Bulgaria, trips to Portugal and Italy … the teachers of the Richard-Hartmann-Schule Chemnitz, a vocational school center for technology, used the opportunities offered to them by the ENNE network with great enthusiasm.

In Chemnitz, the Belgian and Bulgarian colleagues were not only given an insight into the teaching activities of the vocational school center, but also visited companies and practical partners in the region and, of course, museums and cultural sights. Here, as with the teachers’ visits to Italy and Portugal, it was first and foremost the personal exchange and mutual inspiration that made these experiences so valuable for all participants and, moreover, for their institutions. The credo: We live Europe.

Here you can find some impressions:

For more information see https://www.rhs-chemnitz.de/2022/05/17/wir-leben-europa/

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Could an experience leave you so much even if lived in such a short time?

13 students in 10 days had an intense experience. The one that can be defined not simply as work or a personal one, but as a life experience. Being introduced, even if delicately, into a system so distant from their own, implies a significant effort. Adapting rapidly to requests, outside your own field of competence, makes you grow both from the personal and work level. And maybe this is the reason why teenagers love those kind of projects.

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What is the project in which these young people from Bulgaria, Portugal, and Italy took part in?

It is called Car mechanics in Belgium, more specifically the students took part in the experience in Mechelen, a Belgian city located in the province of Antwerp. All this was possible thanks to the opportunity provided by the Technical schools Mechelen, a technical school known for its reputation in technical training in building, biotechnics, car mechanics, multimedia. Not only but also thanks to Connectief, an organization that supports the implementation of mobility. VDAB as well, a public employment service in Flanders. Which made available the necessary tools, for a 3-day project, called: Greenpower.

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This collaboration resulted in a 10-day project focused on increasing knowledge of electric and hybrid vehicles. Characterized by activities, which aimed to learning how to power up a vehicle in AR (augmented reality), working on an electric vehicle supervised by a teacher and electrode mobile experience room. All lightened by activities that led the student to fall in love with the city they were in, to enjoy the time spent in the halls of the auto world and army museum. It was an experience marked by an appreciation of practicality. The fact that the students had the opportunity to verify their knowledge, touching with their hands and seeing this new world with their eyes, made the experience even more effective.

The icing on the cake was participation in the green power project. It lighted up the minds of these young people, procuring a special interest. Being able to drive an electric kart, which they had built themselves, placed the project on a higher level.

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In conclusion, such a project cannot be belittled simply by calling it a school experience, because it is anything but. The collaboration created between the students, the relationships established, and the palpable understanding that there was between those guys, who did not even know each other up to 10 days before, can not only affect the working environmentbut the personal one as well.

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What better way to describe an experience than with words used by the participants themselves!