VETIVER deals with the creation and use of OER both as standard SCORM packages available from the repository and as learning itineraries. The resources will be about Service Based Training for teachers and about entrepreneurship, ICT, English, Interior Designer and Furniture and interior Design Technology for learners. Learners will be between 14 and 18 years, and the main target group will be VET students, though due to the possibilities of personalization and inclusion the environment will provide, they will be also available for 14-16 pre NEET (Not in Education, Employment and Training), 16 yrs+ in further education and also Companies for their training processes.The partnership comprises of five partners in five European countries: Spain (FS22), UK (TTC), Turkey (Afyon MTAL), Greece (ACHAIA), and Hungary (SZAMALK). Selected by their knowledge and practices, but, also to ensure a European width to provide greater integration of EU member states educational systems and practices.The project improves an existing repository from Revetax project to make it multilingual, more interoperabel and with better user experience and usability, within an environment with eLearning and ePortfolio platforms. We will work with teachers/mentors of students, to be sure they understand the system and the project methodology.The project will start with the development of the common communication and management tools and reports:Website,Promotional materials (leaflet and poster).Dissemination Plan (communication activities and social networks) 4 newsletters in all partners languagesEvaluation Plan.Exploitation plan.
The project will have seven intellectual outputsVETIVER HANDBOOK AND TAXONOMIES: design of the information and knowledge will be used as the key driver to other outputs and handbook where teachers can find what to do with the project and how to do it.VETIVER Repository: From the repository developed in the revetax project (and awarded by the Spanish National Agency as the best VET partnership in 2015) and available at http://revetax.eu/repository we want to expand and improve. Make it multilingual (currently only in English), and index all the resources using LRE thesaurus (http://lreforschools.eun.org/web/guest/lre-thesaurus). Also a multiple level evaluation and better user experience.OER CREATION: it is important to create good content for teachers (Service Based Training) and students (about all the areas mentioned above). All the resources created will be creative common licence (by-nc-sa) so that they can be used freely after the project. To create the OER, we will used the instructional design and generate videos, animations, …, needed to generate afterwards a SCORM package using Captivate, to be used in any LMS which is SCORM compliant. We’ll create between 8 and 10 packages for each area. All the packages will be translated to all the languages of the project partners.COURSES, ITINERARIES AND VETIVER PLATFORM IMPLEMENTATION: to run the courses, we will develope e-learning+knowledge management (moodle) and eportfolio (Mahara) environment, with single-sign-on. Then at least one course per area will be created. Both will use the related SCORM packages developed in O3, and will include all the interaction with users (ie, tasks, questionnaires,...) together with the link to eportfolio, and how it will be used. Teachers will learn how to evaluate using ePortfolio.VETIVER PILOT:
Once the virtual platform is available, we will run 3 pilots. The first one with teachers, and the others with students. We will pilot the whole environment. Each pilot will give information to improve the Guidelines of the project for teachers.VETIVER GUIDELINES: 3 guidelines will be developed, compiling the knowledge of the project and how to use it.
There will be a core group of at least 10 expert people from project partners who will have a training for that, so that they will be able to teach the participants in their own countries.The project will hold five transnational partner meetings to discuss the progress and approve any outputs, resolve operational and financial issues. Look into possible problems and plan the work for the next period.There will also be 1 multiplier event in each country in order to disseminate and expand the results of the project.The project will also development a promotional video using seminars and events images, to be used for the exploitation phase.Dissemination of the project done by the partners will cover all levels, local, regional, national and European. And will focus on all target groups of the project.Sustainability will be achieved due to the partnership, which already has strong relations with several associations of educational institutions and work regularly with teachers and learners.We hope and believe that educational organisations will experience that the finished products will become a tool of preference which will provide longevity.