E-SLP teaching stakeholders event 20th May 2021: enriched programmes by international collaboration and mobility by Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven)

1. EUROPEAN
SHORT
LEARNING
PROGRAMMES
Erasmus+ Forward looking
cooperation projects: 590202-
EPP-1-2017-1-NL-EPPKA3-PI-
FORWARD
Coordinator: EADTU
Partners: FernUni Hagen,
OUUK, OUNL, UNED, OUC, HOU,
UNINETTUNO, AU, Uab, UOC,
JYU, KUL, NADE, AGH
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Learners Stakeholder Event
microcredentials &
short learning programmes
May 21, 2021

2. Enriched programmes by
international collaboration and
mobility
Fred Truyen, KU Leuven
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3. Life Long Learning
• Growing demand to:
– Deepen and update knowledge during the
professional career
– Interact with other professionals and assess,
evaluate and integrate their contributions
– Reorient, reboot or switch career paths
– Working in an internationalized context
– Right skills at the right time in the right place
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4. Interactional Expertise
• Rethinking Expertise (Collins and Evans
2007)
– Mastering the language of a field without
the competency to actually perform it, like
the contributive domain expert can
– A vital skill in modern, complex
organisations
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5. Need for trust
• Modular Certification
• Quality assessment
• Critical reflection
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6. Solutions?
• On-demand learning
• Shorter knowledge packages
• Easier access to learning
• Digital delivery
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7. Current situation
• Formal education
– Postgraduate programmes
• Informal learning
– Youtube, Wikipedia, MOOCs …
• Commercial training programmes
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8. Deficiencies
• Lacking solid integration with academic
research and learning
• Recognition
• Lack of critical reflection
• Selection bias not helping to widen views
and perspectives
• Not stackable
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9. Microcredentials
• 1-30 ECTS
• Flexible
• Certified & Recognized
• Embedded in Higher Education
• Linked with critical and international
academic work
• Enables and facilitates (virtual) mobility
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10. Benefits
• Flexible delivery (eg as part of MOOCs)
• Low access threshold
• Self-paced learning facilitates mobility
and time management
• Stackable and linked to formal degrees
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11. Benefits of collaboration
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Complementary knowledge domains
Reuse of modules for different programmes
Input from professional field
International perspectives

12. SLPs
• a group of courses (units, modules or other
learning building blocks)
• with a common subject focusing on specific
needs in society
• which can be used as stackable elements of
larger formal degrees
• targeting non-traditional and adult learners
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13. Pilots
1. Climate Change
2. New Rights
3. Online and Blended Learning
4. Digital Transformation & Enterprise 4.0
5. Digital Competent Educators
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14. Lessons Learned
Report conclusions
• Framework
• Clear agreements between partners
• Conditions
• Programme Size
• Organization
You can find the report on e-slp.eadtu.eu
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15. Erasmus+: 590202-EPP-1-2017-1-NL-EPPKA3-PI-FORWARD
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