Developing Digital Competences of VET Students in Tourism

Developing Digital Competences of VET Students in Tourism

Digital competence has been acknowledged as one of the 8 key competences for Lifelong Learning by the European Union and it involves the confident and critical use of information society technology (IST) and thus basic skills in information and communication technology (ICT).
As a consequence, the proposal main objectives are:

- To create a Process of Revision of the existing Framework for Developing and understanding Digital Competences in Europe and an analysis, adaptation and updating of the required digital competence (DC) for the following profiles: Teachers and students in Communication and Social Marketing, Digital Touristic Management and Digital Tour Guide. That is, to create a specific Digital Competence Grid and a Self-Assessment grid for all these profiles as the prior step to create useful training materials for teachers in these areas and students in order to be a master in these competences.

-Creation of a specific framework identifying, for each profile, all the required digital competences, and provide for each competence a description, descriptors, examples of levels, attitudes, skills and examples of applicability in different contexts and different purposes.

-Designing of an innovative educational portal, a e-Learning Training Web Centre to organise and to test the training materials of the two on-line expected Digital Competences courses (one for teachers [O3] and another to VET students [O5], On-line courses would be attended by 36 teachers and 120 students.

-To create a Methodological Handbook stating the on-line training courses methodology, content, style, achieved results (Digital Competences improvements and learners outputs) and mode.

There would be two different target Groups; VET teachers and VET students in tourism fields.