Access2Learn – Skills development for the inclusion of low-qualified adults in blended learning settings
Due to the rapidly advancing digitisation of the last decade, the labour market is also changing and thus there is a clear increase in the qualification requirements of adult education. Access to training is a key element to staying competitive and avoiding job loss.
In the present Covid 19 pandemic in particular, more and more training offers have been switched to blended learning. But for the target group of our Erasmus+ project Access2Learn, low-qualified learners, these offers are usually hardly accessible. On the one hand, the prejudice that these people are not able to participate at blended learning settings is widespread, and, on the other hand, these learners are often missing various basic skills in order to benefit from the repertoire on offer.
Therefore, the goals of this project are:
- to counter this existing prejudice that low-qualified learners are not able to successfully participate at blended learning offers
- to support low-qualified learners in developing the competences required for participating at blended learning settings
To achieve these goals and thus to contribute to a better inclusion of these people into our educational landscape, five organisations from Spain, Finland, Malta, Czech Republic and Austria are developing the following project results:
- a POLICY PAPER that shows decision makers that low-qualified people are able to successfully participate at blended learning offers as well as a COMPETENCE CATALOGUE that includes competences that are needed for blended learning
- LEARNING MATERIALS for low-qualified adult learners on basic digital competences as well as cognitive competences
- MATERIALS for ADULT EDUCATORS including a competence assessment tool they can use in their classes, a learning path description in relation to the developed learning materials, a seminar design, podcasts and a trainer’s manual
The aim is to provide adult educators and low-qualified adult learners with materials they can use for an individual teaching/learning process.
