This project is being accomplished by bfz Bildungsforschung.New workplace-centred training opportunities often meet the increasing and ever more diffuse and situation-dependent need for continuing education better than traditional seminar-based methods. Despite this, the new methods are rarely made use of in SMEs, because these companies are often not familiar with the new types of training on offer. Also, there have been to date few qualified trainers able to implement the new learning methods, and these methods are often not yet a standard part of the portfolio of training consultants. With the “Labor” project, a continuing education technique has been developed and tested for both training professionals and HR staff working in companies. Implementation of the training was done in a modular way. Four modules built on each other to provide comprehensive information and skills in the areas of the design of blended learning arrangements, advice and support for the learning process, learning cooperation and learning networks, and education marketing for small and medium-sized companies. The qualification was itself organised in accordance with a blended learning arrangement, integrating various learning methods (workshops, online sequences, group meetings etc.). The qualification also required practical implementation of the strategy and procedure developed, above all in SMEs This implementation was accompanied by advice and support (coaching) from training consultants from the bbw group, who have prior experience in the application of such methods of qualification.
For further information on the project (in German) see: www.labor.bfz.de
The objective was to develop a continuing education strategy which would allow both consumers (HR staff in companies) and providers (training consultants, trainers) of training access to new methods of learning. They were to be taught to not just make use of learning arrangements but also to develop and implement these themselves.
