Professional training

Professional training

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Content

Education; Professional training

Content is the declarative knowledge. It is what we want students to know in terms of information and facts related to the topic of the taught unit.

Skills

Education; Professional training

Skills refer to the procedural knowledge. It is what we want the students to be able to do as an outcome of learning the unit under study.

Basic information and communication technology (ICT) skills

Education; Professional training

The skills needed to use efficiently the elementary functions of information and communication technologies (essentially word/image/data processing, Internet and e-mail). Some authors also include ...

Apprenticeship

Education; Professional training

Systematic, long-term training alternating periods at the workplace and in an educational institution or training centre. The apprentice is contractually linked to the employer and receives ...

Digital divide / digital gap

Education; Professional training

Within populations, the gap between those who can access and use information and communication technologies (ICT) effectively, and those who cannot.

Alternance training

Education; Professional training

Education or training combining periods in an educational institution or training centre and in the workplace. The alternance scheme can take place on a weekly, monthly or yearly basis. Depending on ...

Key skills

Education; Professional training

The sum of skills (basic and new basic skills) needed to live in contemporary knowledge society. In its Recommendation on key competences for lifelong learning, the European Commission sets out the ...