Aims:

VET staff is usually left alone to deal with accessibility needs during the lessons and educational moments. Therefore, they may not have the skills or instruments to address Special Educational Needs in online learning. Usually, VET educators are not required to undergo any specific training regarding accessibility or how to support students with disabilities and Special Educational Needs (especially in distance learning) in any of the partner countries.

The purpose of the STIT project is to enhance both teachers and students: the teachers who need compasses, tools and environment to operate at their best in the contemporary reality and students so that they can put the world they belong to (the technological one) at the service of their learning, with their skills and practices.

The STIT proposal has the goal to foster the professional development of VET staff and, consequently, to improve accessibility and inclusion in the VET sector’s digital and distance learning, in particular with students with disabilities and Special Educational Needs.

Objectives:

The STIT proposal has the goal to foster the professional development of VET staff and, consequently, to improve accessibility and inclusion in the VET sector’s digital and distance learning, in particular with students with disabilities and Special Educational Needs.

By sharing skills and competencies, the STIT project will be able to obtain a rapid dissemination of good practices and the creation of virtuous training processes, capable of improving through comparison and always up to date.

The project will be able to promote a “collective intelligence” which Pierre Levy summarizes with “nobody knows everything, everyone knows something”.

Results:

The STIT project will foresee the development of 2 high-impact Intellectual Outputs with high transferability potential.

The first one is the “Online Training Course for VET” staff that aims to spread the pedagogical practices learned, beyond the project’s partner staff. The course will be made up of pre-recorded webinars and will include interactive moments (i.e. moments of reflections, games, etc.) which will maximize the learning impact on the course-taker.

The second one is the “Survival Toolkit for VET staff“, crowd-sourcing digital platform aiming at collecting adaptable resources starting from the teaching experience of VET partners. The Survival Toolkit will enable teachers to create their own lessons using and combining tools and solutions adopted by others. The goal is to use the potential of the digital world by promoting flexible and collaborative models.