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Innovative Academic-Further Education New
Bridges Between Improvement of Vocational
Competences and University Studies
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Agenda

• introduction
• path finding for education system penetrability
• case study the project ProIT Professionals
• outlook

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Todays knowledge situation
knowledge become antiquated or get loss by time
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Todays working situation
Increasing computerization in the every day
life changes workplaces.
computerized allrounder
allrounder
specialist
retrospect to history
todays situation
outlookto future
lots of single computerizedapplications
few allroundcomputerized applications
handmade by oneself
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Point of departure (1)
Two different further education systems ...
... like two lonesome banks ...
further education by university studies
further education by training on the job
How to combine these systems?Where could be
accepted crossings?
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Point of departure (2)
Universatary and professional qualifications are
for the same working processes different !
prospectives of ascertainment methods
working
studies
application context
l e a r n i n g o u t c o m e s
working processes
But are they for these working processes
equivalent ?
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Professional further education
For example the new advanced IT-training
system in Germany, 2002
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Academical further education
For example The new graduation system in
Germany
change within the Bologna process for the
European higher education area 2010
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Path finding (1)
Possible education system crossings ...
vocational profiles
university programs
Whats about reciprocal formal and content
recognition of graduations and competences?
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Path finding (2)
... means searching for sustainable fundamentals
...
... like bridge piers ...
soft skills
vocational competences
guidelines for recognition
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Bridging
... means building up formalia and methods for
the penetrability ...
... like bridge archs ...
formal approvals
crediting of contents
further education by university studies
education policy guidelines
further education by training on the job
companies imparting knowledge
formal aspects
content workload aspects
permission
obligation reductions
recognition agreements of prior learning in
consensus of companies, Chamber of Commerce and
Industry and universities
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An example
the wish BA economic computer science or
more!
aktual vita IT Business Manager IT Product
Coordinator computer scientist (IHK)
Exemplo
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A project of the federal initiative Recognition
of vocational competences on higher education
programms
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What is ProIT Professionals?

• a project integrated in a BMBF-initiative called
  Anrechnung beruflicher Kompetenzen auf
  Hochschulstudiengänge gt ANKOM
• one of 2 IT-projects of 11 Regional Research
  Projects, accompanied by Hochschul-Information
  s-System GmbH (HIS, Hannover), VDI/VDE
  Innovation Technik GmbH (Berlin) and
  Federal Institute for Vocational Education and
  Training (BIBB, Bonn)
• furtherance 2.3 years September 2005 till
  December 2007 (a primary phase by federal
  state Hesse January 2004 till August 2005)
• main focus development of a method to define
  equivalences between professional
  competences and university studies for their
  comparison

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What intends ProIT Professionals?
gt penetrability, approval, crediting, methods
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How operates ProIT Professionals?
local universities
local chambers of commerce
German Research Centers
Hessian Departments
IHK
Dipl.-Soz.
Dipl.-Ing.
VhU
FHD
ProIT team
TUD
national trade associations
local companies
projectconsortium
regional organisations
local companies
project advisory board
IT-experts
multifaceted interfaces to IT-employments
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Bridging - IT-cognoscenti activities
target comparison of workload, level and
outcomes based on ECTS, EQF NQF for IT
reference processes and study patheslooking for
sub-processes and modules of courses
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Academic profile
for example BA economic computer scienceof
TUDlaws, orders and module descriptions
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Vocational profile
for example for IT Business Manager IT
Product Coordinator described by the Fraunhofer
Institute for Software and Systems Engineering
in collaboration with economic and IT experts
computer scientist (IHK) by Chamber of Commerce
and Industry
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Estimation method (1)
EQF appraisal learning outcomes of study courses
A)
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EQF matrix
schematic structure
EQF-Stufe 6 Kenntnisse fortgeschrittene
Kenntnissein einem Arbeits- oder Lernbereich
unter Einsatz eines kritischen Verständnisses von
Theorien und Grundsätzen
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Estimation method (2)
EQF appraisal learning outcomes of vocational
competence cluster
A)
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Estimation method (3)
looking for equivalence and overlaps
concerningsame professionals contents
B)
Max.
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In a nutshell
estimation of the levels of learning
outcomes, ascertainment of the overlapping
contents, credit point calculation and deltas
identification based on EQF and mapping of
technical competence cluster of learning outcomes
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Outlook
End of 2007 project aims should be

• a final qualitative equivalence estimation
  method for comparison of professional
  IT-competences and outcomes of university
  studies
• as a transferable estimation method to other
  in- dustrial branches and trades,
  international relations
• first steps tested in common sense of companies,
  universities and the Chamber of Commerce and
  Industry
• showing penetrability between the classic
  different education systems opening ways for
  life long learning
• initative for creating new kinds of higher
  education programms based on and
  combining/integrating work based learning

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Our project vision is ...
... the sucessful bridging between the systems of
vocational training and higher education ... ...
closing the gaps between them ...
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Questions
Any questions ???
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TU Darmstadt - Institut für Soziologie Residenzsc
hloss64283 DarmstadtTel. 06151/16-5573Fax
06151/16-5140 E-Mail beuthel_at_proit-professionals
.deInternet www.proit-professionals.de
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