+ Standards  to facilitate the match between 
employment requirements & learning
Eulaks
Summer School 2009
new literacies:    
overview of the EU framework
cities interconnected across the globe (density of connections)
        













                            "compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames"





google.com/insights
Europe represents 24% of world Internet users, 
but only 12% of the world population. 
58% of EU population has access.

e-connectivity
e-maturity
www.internetworldstats.com
  Making strategic & effective use of ICT
  Understand when, how & why ICT can contribute

becta.org.uk
Skill-needs in Europe (2020). 
[European Centre for the Development 
of Vocational Training, Cedefop].
PROSPECTIVE:
• EU: Shift from primary sector (agriculture) & traditional manufacturing industries >          a services & knowledge-intensive economy. 
• + 20 million additional jobs could be created between (‘06 –‘20, EU-25). 
• ¾ jobs will be in services. 

CHALLENGES:
• Policy-makers: anticipate the emerging European labour market.
• A better match between skills provided & those required.
• Significant implications for industrial, education & training.
• Migration, Mobility, labour & social policies in the EU.
EU STRATEGIES (mid-term agenda):
Bologna Process (1999).
Lisbon Strategy (2000).
Barcelona European Council (2002).
Education & Training 2010/2020.
UNESCO's ICT Competency Standards for Teachers, 2008
"link between competence-based 
qualifications, employment & education"
e-Inclusion
Integrating people: disabilities & elderly persons.
Reduce divides: gender, urban/rural, Immigrant/Native.
Incentives for SMEs’ technology innovation.
       [Finland hired 5,000 students to train teachers ]
European Computer Driving Licence
EPICT (The European Pedagogical ICT Licence)
pedagogical integration of ICT in the teaching practice
issued + than 9 Mio. certification
EQF
European Qualifications Framework
EQF
e-assessment
German Advanced
 IT Training System
   PISA 2012: computer-based assessment (ICT literacy assessment):
Access, manage, integrate & evaluate information. 
Create new knowledge.
The Diploma in IT : 
Flexible qualification
(14-19 year olds)
universities & employers.
      GOALS:
Improve relationships between education, training & employment.
Make the EU the most competitive knowledge-based economy.
Train a knowledgeable workforce.
Mobility & Continuous Learning.
Eight key competencies:
* communication in the mother tongue;
* communication in foreign languages;
* mathematical, science & technology competences;
* digital competence;
* learning to learn;
* social & civic competences;
* sense of initiative & entrepreneurship;
* cultural awareness & expression.

assess students/workforce e-skills
 E-learning Nordic 2006: Impact of ICT on education (Denmark)
+  e-skills nationally &  trans-nationally recognized 
www.tda.gov.uk
ICT skills need to be continuously updated
Standardization
European Committee for Standardization (CEN): uniformity </> consistency
                                                                                                norm </>  critriteria
Terminology of vocational training policy: 
A multilingual glossary for an enlarged Europe (Cedefop, 2004). 
Competence: 
“Ability to apply knowledge, 
know-how and skills in an 
habitual or changing situation”. 
"Everything changed, but ain't nothing changed"
- Recognition 
- Mobility
- Flexibility
- Validate Informal learning
+ EU: Q. address educational & occupational standards.
Scandinavia, Germany: Q. are based on educational standards.  
       (Accumulation of Knowledge & Skills).
UK: Q. are based on occupational standards. 
       (Validation of Non-formal learning).
Q. are at the interface between 
the worlds of work & of education:
Connection between learning areas and work contexts ( cf. Kremer & Sloane 2000)
Define/Measure/Proof Skills
Cristobal Cobo
[SSRC/ESRC]
www.e-competencies.org
five un-conclusions:
1. Deep changes are demanded in the worlds of education & work (new & flexible bridges will be necessary to connect them).
2. The EU aims to establish common frameworks 
(competencies, qualification, standards, evaluations = mobility & recognition).
3.The implementation of an e-competencies agenda demands a mid-term strategy & the collaboration of diverse stakeholders.
4. The 21st century skills demand to rethink how, what, where & when we learn (connecting, unlearning, KM, adaptability, informal, life-long).
5. The digital divide is not a sine qua non to solve the “knowledge divide”, but it is a factor of exclusion.
Cristóbal Cobo Romaní, phd.
ergonomic.wordpress.com


(Creative Commons 
Attribution 3.0 License)
instrumental test
Does the EU have an e-competent public agenda? 

What are the European educational systems doing to develop                     e-competencies standards in the     next generations of professionals? 
How coordinated are the educational agenda & the labour market in terms of training and demand of human capital?
Make skills & qualifications clearly 
& easily understood in Europe
computer-based assessment (ICT literacy assessment):
Access, manage, integrate & evaluate information. 
Create new knowledge.
PISA 2012: 
ECDL
e-competencies.org