learning regions and learning on place

8/3/2019 Learning Regions and Learning on Place

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Dr. Jutta Thinesse-DemelLRD

Association Learning Regions Germany

Learning Regions and

Learning on Place


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70 GermanLearning Regions


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Goals of Learning Regions boost motivation and foster independent learning

ability, and

achieve both qualitative and quantitativeimprovements which will lead, not least, to a greaterdegree of user orientation.

increase flexible transition between the differenteducation and training sectors

interlock general, political and vocational educationand training to a greater degree

reinforce cooperation between education policy,employment policy, labour market policy


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Orientation in guidance initial and orientation counselling and further education consulting improving the transparency of educational offers as well as developing

and networking bundled offers for information, consulting andconsulting services

specific questions: Ways to carry our consulting Possibilities, targets and feedback loops within the consulting process; role of

blended consulting

Considering informal learning Qualification/competence profiles for further education consultants How can the interface management with other educational domains, the business

community and civil life be improved in consulting


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Example: guidance, consulting and validationof formal and informal competencies

PROFILPASSPORT Strengthening the learners'

personal responsibility andself-management

Motivating disadvantagedgroups less involved in

education Strengthening relations

between all educationalsectors

Co-operation of educationalproviders and users

User-orientation: Improvingthe quality, quantity, andstructure of offers


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New Learning Worlds and learning places

To discuss new didactic approaches and processes ofimparting knowledge as well as new forms of learning

to extent learning placesnew didactic approaches to support learning

processes at new learning places

E-learning like blended learning


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Examples: Fluxus: Lower Saxony and Zollernalb:Baden-Wrttemberg Fluxus: Media Bus with

different offers and

compendia:

fantastic construction site:courses to enhance artistic and

mechanical skills nursery school: blended

learning for teachers,educators, children concerning

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Zollernalb: propagation of WBTand Blended Learning

In-company-further-training Strengthening the citizens

online competencies


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Interlocking and permeability of

educational domains

transition from school to working lifecertification of informal learningmodularization of learning contentsflow of information between responsile bodies in differentdomains

building networks among different providers andprocedures of recognition


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Example: Kreativ: Mecklenburg-Western

Pomerania

New ways to labour andprofession

Promoting the creative learningof talented pupils by integratinginnovative fields of the regionalindustry

Learning in the country: specificeducational contents at decetrallearning locations


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Courage for Future Only 1 day: Edutainment Visitors: Pleasure for Education 1998: 7.000 Education as advantage 1999: 17.000

of location 2002: 25.000

2004: 30.0002006: 34.000

2008: 35.000

2010: 35.000


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Integration of SME-Qualification

programmes

strategies to intsify integration of SMEs into regionaleducational networks

questions around possibilities to determine the demand forfurther education

Which measures are accepted by SMEsWhich kind of internal forms of learning or emphasizeinformal learning processes or learning arrangements are linkedto the work place


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Personnel College Qualification of SME: Enterprise consultancy light:

Personal College: Market- and marketing-strategies Guide-concepts andmethods Client-orientation Team-orientation employer-employees Quality-dimension of companies

Interviewing and needs-analysis 5 half-day-workshops with director and personal-staff-director of 8-12

companies

4 seminar offers for max. 3 employees per company

Result-transfer into companies 4-month-course, actually: 1.100 (support through LR)


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Started in Learning Regions:

Learning Communities The offer has to be: Enterprise-consultancy light Publicly funded In short local distance Congruent to daily work and

practice-orientated

Organisation/duration/time/content in cooperation withcommunity and regionaladministrations

5 different communites of oneregional district

For the whole communityadministration


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Program Idea of Learning on Place 5-year-programme in prosecution of Learning

Regions (8-year-programme)

Communities build up a coherent managementstructure for education and learning , specificallyat non-formal level

Common initiative of the federal ministry foreducation and research (BMBF) and Germanfoundations

Financed by a split of BMBF and esf +foundations : expertise and knowledge

(godparenthood) but no money-support

Models should be developed which aretransferable into other regions and cities alsothose who are not involved into this programme


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Specific core areas Transitions in all

aspects

Learning workshops Low-levelled guidance-

system, e.g. for job-orientation

Intercultural diversity Interface diagrams of all

learning activities

Bundling of all diversesystems of learning in

one structure Challenge: cooperation

of all community-institutions


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40 participating regions


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Rudolf Tippelt:

The public sector and learning regions

are actors from the public sector still dominant?public and private sector have to cooperate!role of local authorities?role of schools?strong committment of the community ensuressustainability!


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Paolo Federighi:

The private sector and learning regions

start: private basic roleDo we need a new structural model?synergies among public and private sector?example: youth policydo we need a legislative and financial power morerelated to the market of education?


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Questions left?Dr. Jutta Thinesse-Demel, chair of the board of LRD,

Email: [email protected]

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