TRAINING & CONSULTING

Considering the technological innovations and recommendations, Flipped-VET project will strengthen the professional development of trainers in different vocational fields; condition that helps to make it more attractive their education. Particularly, Flip through the dissemination of a blend methodology still poorly known in Europe - the Flipped classroom - aims to make the trainers of the most active in the world of work, competent in terms of teaching and capable of carrying a mentoring role. This method is based on the transformation of traditional classes in Creative Classrooms’ (CCR), namely in innovative learning environments that fully embed the potential of ICT to innovate learning and teaching practices in formal, non-formal and informal settings.
“Flipping Classroom” would be especially beneficial for the vocational education sectors, where the different institutions are facing the challenge to meet the needs of the ever-changing labor market. The innovative elements of this project can be resumed in these points: a) support the change from a theoretic learning to a social and constructive learning. Class time, with no more frontal lessons allows changing the teaching method. Exercises and laboratories take place in a collaborative context now, with the support of trainers finding time to transform training strategies trough the active learning: from the inquiry learning to the problem solving; from the cooperative learning to the peer tutoring. Learning in between of equals can be considered a central point for the new setting of the class; b) it makes possible to customize the training process. This training setting can answer to the persons’ needs. We can easily identify professionalizing courses, more flexible in timing and trough the creation of working groups, trainers can better stimulate user; c) it draws a new role for the trainer.