E-learning strategies for VET teachers based on active cooperation with labour market operators

This paper describes an innovative e-learning strategy to train teachers on issues related oncompetence-based education. It is rooted on the European policies on Vocational Educationand Training (VET), which point out that nowadays the national educational policies should be more responsive to labour market requirements than in the past, and should effectivelycontribute to excellence and equity in lifelong learning. To achieve these objectives, the European policies stress the need of innovative learning methods, high labour market relevance, and pathways to further education and training. In particular, the BrugesCommuniqué encourages the cooperation between schools and enterprises as one of the keymeasures to enhance the labour market relevance of VET. In this paper, we report on the experience of online courses for VET teachers - organized inthe framework of an European funded project - which have involved both teachers and labour market operators, who have collaboratively designed and developed Open Educational Resources aimed at integrating the learning curricula with the needs of thelabour market. Results have raised interesting insights on the creation, processing and management of knowledge during the project.