DESIGNING VET

Designing VET is an Erasmus+ supported project led by Comparative Research Network based in Germany. The project partnership is formed by 6 different institutions coming from five European countries (Germany, Sweden, Italy, Ireland & Bulgaria.)

Reflecting on design skills and strategies in VET, keywords like design thinking, SCRUM, agility are currently fashionable and are used specifically in project and business management heavily. However in the VET education the concepts are little known and educators are not aware of the benefits and limits of those methods.

Social and experience design have the advantages that knowledge is not just transferred on a cognitive level, but through emotional and experiential learning, which enables a deeper understanding of skills and values.
Important for ethics, intercultural skills, leadership and conflict resolution, while design thinking is encouraging co-creation and co-working processes, based on community and collective intelligence.

The content of a learning experience aims to provide the things that your learners need to be able to do a task. The structure of the content reflects the most logical order in which the content should be presented to support the completion of a task. Human beings respond to experiences and learn from them. For educational design, it means to create “experiences”, for the learners meeting their needs.