The project elaborates and pilots support services for occupational training networks with a view to promoting job trainees’ acquisition of multidisciplinary skills. It is particularly important for today’s businesses to reorient their training programs toward the recently created and reclassified occupations in the fields of IT, high tech metallurgy and electronics, since it is becoming increasingly important for trainees to acquire multidisciplinary capabilities during their traineeships. The project will focus on the need to reorient job training programs, and will pilot innovative training methods with a view to determining how practical multidisciplinary skills can be developed expeditiously and inexpensively. The content of the support solution will be communicated via a broad based information transfer effort aimed at businesses and their trainers, as well as training consortiums, external job training management coordinators, and experts in the relevant subjects.
The project’s main goal is to reorient and pilot eLearning programs that are used in blended learning occupational training programs that teach multidisciplinary skills. The solution will first be piloted with full- and part-time trainers, and the results of the piloting will be used as a basis for identifying the relevant needs. The eLearning modules will then be adapted for the target trainee groups. In order to ensure that the autonomous learning modules are praxis oriented and meet the current need for multidisciplinary occupational training, a two stage procedure has been developed that will allow for the integration of human resource managers, and particularly of full- and part-time trainers, into the process of elaborating these modules.
Information transfer / publicizing project results
Providing occupational training consortiums and external training management projects with information; holding workshops with businesses whose training programs are managed by external providers, with a view to making company training specialists more aware of the relevant issues; elaboration of an implementation handbook containing general information, practical examples, instructions and suggested blended learning modules for businesses, trainers and trainees; presentation of the project at conferences and trainer meetings; publication of the results in professional journals and on the Internet.
