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Pilots

The piloting has the aim of validating what has been developed in the froma of the Quality Management methodology. So, the project does not pilot peer production experiences themselves but the use of the Quality Management Handbook (content and instruments proposed).

Four (4) on-going experiences in three (3) different VET entities and in three (3) different countries: Finland, Italy and Spain are being piloted; so as to ensure that the piloting covers different dimensions of Peer Production (PP from now on).

The objective of this piloting is to validate the usefulness and usability of the project Quality Management Approach.
Piloting experience Master Course in “Educational Design” PDF Print E-mail

Organisation responsible: University of Macerata
Region: Italy
Language: Italian

Description of the Experience

Setting of Objectives: Controlled & defined by the group

Description of Objectives (Why a peer production?)
To provide in-service and future teachers with the proper opportunities to share their experiences among peers is a relevant aspect for their reflection phase during their learning process.

Description of Content/Areas
Educational research; Disciplinary curricula (Italian, Maths, English, History, Science); Instructional technology

Date of the Course October 2008-April 2009 
Hours 1500

Actors
Nº of Participants:
About 100 
Profile 
In- service school teachers working in different school levels and graduates whose degree allows them to start the school career.

Learning Resources
During the course different resources will be available and delivered via the LMS

  • web resources (links to websites, weblogs, wikis, articles etc)
  • materials prepared by both university professors and experts in the educational area coming from the school context (articles, case-studies, presentations)
  • materials created by the participants during their activities; those materials serve as:
    • a resource to be accessed by all teachers of the current ongoing course as an input to foster reflection on personal habitus related to the design process
    • a resource to be used in future master courses

Description of the procedures
The development of the course imply:

  • 12 hours: F2F instruction (at Faculty of Education – University of Macerata connected via videoconference either to IFOR or Faculty of Social Science – University of Molise)
  • 375 hours: online activity (using an LMS + web 2.0 applications)
  • 300 hours: project work/stage
  • 813 hours: individual study work.

The course is based on a practice-theory-practice approach following the inputs theorized by Marguerite Altet, Philippe Perrenoud, François Tochon, Léopold Paquay and Shulman.

Tools
Activities and tool used can be summarized as follows:

  • individual reflection process (through an e-portfolio)
  • shared reflection and collaborative tasks in small group activities (chats, discussion in forum, collaborative production of reports)
  • final project (personal presentation using a selection of tools)
 
Critical Care Advanced Training for Nurses PDF Print E-mail

Organisation responsible: IAVANTE

Region: Spain
Language: Spanish

Characteristics of Learning Group

Students will be in a group of 6 to 10 nurses who work in emergency departments, critical care and emergency teams.

Description of the Experience

Setting of Objectives: Controlled & defined by the group

Description of Objectives (Why a peer production?)
The students will improve or will acquire their knowledge and skills in the care of critically ill patients, sharing experiences and knowledge (via Peer production).

Description of Content/Areas
Life-threatening clinical situations; implementation of care, related to the  Advanced Life Support on a Human Patient Simulator; teamwork techniques and effective communication in stressful situations; other contents set by the peer group.

Date of the Course: February- May  2009
Hours 1500

Actors
Nº of Participants:
6-10

Profile 
Nurses who work in emergency departments, critical care and emergency teams.

Learning Resources

Internet based Tools and state-of-the art health education resources  (see below)

Description of the procedures
Students will produce all theoretical content course through peer production (for theoretical skills). In addition, they will also develop the content of the training “workshops” through peer production (for technical skills), such as the design of clinical scenarios.

After learning based on theoretical peer produced content, knowledge acquired by the own peer produced group will be put into practice in “workshops”. The members will be trainers and trainees also doing "peer assessment".

Face-to-face learning phase (2 days): Advanced simulation (robotic and actor-based simulation) will be the methodology of the “workshops”. This face-to-face learning phase takes place over a two-day period. A human patient simulator (advanced robot HPS METI™) will be used in the simulations.

Tools
For editing the contents, there will be available:

-- Provision of tools for shared editing
-- Various functionalities of editing
-- Free access to editing to all peers
-- Waiting period for content editing
-- Provision of editing Tools
-- The platform used will be Moodle, with different tools such as
fora, chats, Wiki, videoconference, database or surveys.

For the validation of the content, there will be available:

-- Provision of peer rating procedure
-- Testing of content
-- Professional validation mechanism of content

For the Face-to-face learning phase:
- HPS METI (Human Patient Simulator).
- Actor based simulation.
- debriefing sessions.
 
Manolo's Business Trip PDF Print E-mail

Organisation responsible: IAVANTE
Region: Spain
Language: English

Characteristics of Learning Group

Adult professionals from the Andalusian School of PUblic Health. profiles include: researchers, teachers, consultants, management, adminstrative staff

Description of the Experience

Setting of Objectives: Controlled & defined by the group

Description of Objectives (Why a peer production?)
To provide consistent top quality learning content from a team of experienced English language teachers using a collaborative working environment ot share and further develop ideas and experiences. To create and promote team spirit and enhance teacher/student motivation

Description of Content/Areas
Learning English as a Second Language

Date of the Course: 29/09/2008 - 31/12/2009

Actors
Nº of Participants:
Approx 20

Profile 
Professionals working in the Public Health System

Learning Resources

Open generic web 2.0 resources - interactive, downloadable amterials designed by teahcers and students, adapted for didactic application by teaching team. Closed group-specific web resources (Moodle)

Description of the procedures
2 groups receiving a total of 09 F2F hours each> Online activities and design take place in F2F sessions with some tasks set as homework. Teachers have editor access to blog and Moodle (closed platform). Sutdents can only publish material on moodle.

Tools
 
Peer Production in Finnish VET PDF Print E-mail

The aim of the project

The aim of the project done in Finland is to pilot  peer production possibilities in Finnish vocational education system. The plan is to create two separate pilots with several vocational education institutes and teachers.
As a result the project will produce peer production models’ which can be insuring the quality of the learning process.
The planning process
The planning process started in the beginning of May 2008. The previous experiences of the implementation of web based education  were used in the planning these pilot projects. This pilot plan then was tested with the Jyväskylä Institute of Vocational Adult Education in June 2008. Then the plan was presented to the development project called Monet which is the development of nine Vocational Adult Educational institutes in Finland in August 2008.

The pilot project plan

For the pilots there are four different strategies’ to perform:
- Team production: Team of experts create the manuscript and the whole content of the course together sharing their expertise and the best practice
- Team production2: Team of experts create the manuscript together and then each of them creates one part of the course so the whole course is a sum of the modules every expert has created
- Expert production: One expert creates the content of the course by one self
- Duplication production: The production team documents the best practice on site and them the learning process is implemented by the expert teachers
The first pilot begun using team production in January 2008.

Project work

To start the project there has been several planning and development meetings. Also the project has been presented to the Monet –project.
 


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