The primary purpose of the project was not to provide traditional subject-based knowledge transfer, but to develop an entrepreneurial attitude among students.
The project aims to develop a teaching methodology, providing online and offline tools in combination, but also provides cross-border networks and a student-teacher supporting system to have a solution on “how to” teach entrepreneurial skills and competencies in the VET.
We call this project Entrepreneur+, for it is referring to the m-learning based blended education methodology to be created in this project. The system enables the students to learn following their personalized learning designed and continuously up-dated by a “smart” e-learing background-application supporting adaptive learning. Teachers act more like “mentors”, supervising the learning process and paying personal attention to each student.
After creating this innovative methodology, we tested it in three countries (Hungary, Slovakia and Romania) in the frame of a pilot-training involving 60 students all-together (3-3 secondary vocational schools).
The electronic curriculum uses the language of the Z generation (born after 1995), its visual world, the wording, the imagery of the digital natives which would represent a further attraction to the students. The program provides training for teachers using the application, bringing them to a kind of methodological renewal. We hope to give them the feeling of a pedagogical renewal experience, as they will be involved in networking activities and creative work in m-learning curriculum development as well.
Resources needed
The Entrepreneur+ project was funded under the Erasmus+ Programme, call 2017, action KA202 - Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training. Total grant approved: 283.141EUR. The project was implemented by 2 institutions from Hungary, an NGO from Romania and one from Slovakia.
Evidence of success
Main results:
– creation of m-learning based blended education methodology;
– increase in the motivation of the students towards learning;
– increase in their knowledge and skills in the fields of entrepreneurship;
– burn-out prevention through the new method for the participating teachers;
– promotion of the digital and adaptive methods in the schools.
Potential for learning or transfer
The developed material can be translated and used in any country.
Tags: Digitalisation, Entrepreneurship, Learning, Youth
