Validation of assessment criteria for WBL activities
Located on Facebook, as a private group, in this forum can be discuss any technical or administration matters regarding Tourism and Digital Tourism. Technical documentation not intended for common users is placed here, like research and articles can be shared, discussed, and talked over. The experts and professionals on the forum have been actively invited by the project partnership to join. The Forum is open to interested learners as well, e.g. the following professional fields: VET schools and VET providers, travel agencies and hospitality (e.g. accommodation, food and beverage services, recreation and entertainment, transportation and travel services), public social services, labour offices (but only on request).
The project partners schools (Insignare, ITE Scarpellini and CEDEA) have recruited and selected 21 students for a WBL period in Digital Tourism. Using documents created by the project, the reports of the selected students have circulated within the partners and within the DTQ Validation Committee in order to highlight the potential and obstacles of the WBL aspects. The responsible partners for the experimentation have produced a national case study in English, summarizing the findings and the best practices of their local activities. This Cesure and Rating Report summarizes our results and findings. The statistics, results and good practices you find in this report are taken from the individual forms, reports and feedbacks of the students, tutors, teachers and mentors covering the Digital Tourism work based learning period. In the last part of this report, the validation of the finalised DT Work Based Learning Documents, approved by the DTQ Validation Committee, is also explained.
These documents were developed by the consortium, to cover all stages (from Selection to Assessment) and all players (from Students to Tutors) of a WBL period. VET providers can adapt it to their reality, deciding which ones can be used.
App developed by Italian students during their WBL https://crowddreaminganew.world/DT360/index.html
All the students enrolled at ITE Scarpellini who took part in the WBL activities contributed to this webapp realisation, as an additional and integral part of the WBL, in order for them to know digital tools useful for the promotion of cultural heritage and develop related competencies.
The webapp making was supervised and guided by CRHACKLAB FOLIGNO 4D (https://crowddreaminganew.world), an NGO active in the above-mentioned field, which validated the webapp. It’s free and it can be used by everyone.
The manual contains he validation of the analysis of good practices of DTQ Work-Based Learning. This should finally give VET providers answers on how to choose DTQ good practices of WBL, to help with the identification of preconditions and challenges of its implementation and to clarify the phases of the transfer process. The following questions and issues are dealt with in order to offer a manual for transferring good practices of Digital Tourism WBL:
• What to transfer?
• Why to transfer good practices of DTQ work-based learning?
• Who is benefiting from the DTQ transfer?
• Who is carrying out the transfer?
• Contextualization of the Digital Tourism Qualification;
• Project management;
• How to go on in terms of implementation, evaluation and dissemination?
• Obstacles;
• General conclusions.