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Greetings ...
... from the DEKRA Akademie
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Examinations and certificates in digital
environments

• Our digital environment is a result of the
  convergence of
• Computer sciences
• Communication technologies
• Entertainment industries
• Learning systems
• Real life, etc.
• Digitality means the compromised representation
  of a highly complex reality

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Examinations and certificates in digital
environments

• Typical characteristics of our digital
  environment
• A digitally compromised environment which, in
  turn, consists of many digitally compromised
  environments
• Many-to-many communication is a reality
• Users seem to be equal in status
• The user himself has to be more responsible for
  interpreting all the words of the new language

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Examinations and certificates in a digital
environment

• Quite open for
• New technologies
• New target groups
• New problems (digital divide, etc.)
• Different interpretations
• Different and new fantasies
• Great expectations
• ...

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Learning in a World of Digital Environments

• Need of the reversal of the technology-driven
  development schema
• Learning media gt Learning environment gt
  Categories of learning gt Learning objectives gt
  Learner
• to a pedagogical/andragogical-driven development
  schema
• Learner gt Learning objectives gt Categories of
  learning gt Learning environment gt Learning
  media

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Learning philosophy and learner orientation (1)

• Learning as a process for acquiring information
• Learning as a process for acquiring information
  and processing experience
• Learning as a process for acquiring information
  and processing experience that effects a
  long-term change in the consciousness of the
  learner
• Learning as a process for acquiring information
  and processing experience in which the learner
  integrates new information and experience into
  his/her current knowledge base
• Cf. Dichanz/ErnstE-Learning begriffliche,
  psychologische und didaktische Überlegungen
  Elearning conceptual, psychological and
  didactic considerations

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Learning philosophy and learner orientation (2)

• Learning as a process for acquiring information
  and processing experience in which the learner
  perceives, selects and integrates new information
  and experience into his/her current knowledge
  base, thereby changing it
• Learning as a process for acquiring information
  and processing experience, in which the learner
  selects and constructs knowledge that is useful
  and appropriate for him/herself and in turn uses
  this to drive and determine his/her own
  continuous learning process
• Learning thereby becomes an individual process of
  interaction between the individual and his/her
  environment, in which the subjective reality of
  the learner is actively constructed
• Cf. Dichanz/ErnstE-Learning begriffliche,
  psychologische und didaktische Überlegungen
  Elearning conceptual, psychological and
  didactic considerations

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Examinations and Certificates in Digital
Environments

• Skill-oriented tests instead of
  competence-oriented tests
• IT-sector ECDL, MOUS, MCSD, MCSE, CCNA, CCDP,
  CCNP, DBA, CNA, CNE etc.
• Language Training TOEFL, TOEIC, European
  Language Certificate
• Competence-oriented aproaches like
• Simulations
• Real-time simulations
• Scenario-methodology
• Role-playing methodology etc.

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Professional Competences

• Subject-matter competence
• Methodological competence
• Personal competence
• Social competence

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Example 1 Advanced IT Training System in Germany
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IT Qualifications profile
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Individual Certification
T G A
IT-Sectorcommittee
TGA-Experts
examination in form and content
certification agency accredited by TGA
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Work Process-Orientation Employment Seekers

• Goal Far-reaching prerequisites for further
  training leading to a recognized IT training
  certificate
• Definition of individual qualification objectives
• Possible integration of specialized product
  certifications
• Timely cooperation with companies learners to be
  integrated in the work process, whose content is
  relevant to the desired qualification.
• The training provider prepares the trainee for
  his/her part in the process and accompanies and
  coaches him/her during the process
• Alternately work-place oriented training (Tasks,
  Projects)
• Possible extension of support after trainee has
  been hired.

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Characteristics of a work-place-oriented
Training program

• Focus on competent action (in regard to both hard
  and soft skills)
• Learning objectives are oriented toward the work
  process
• Integration of the learning and work processes
• Particular emphasis on informal learning
• Subject-related and pedagogical coaching
• Reflection as essential part of the learning
  process
• Individualizing the learning process
• Providing examination credit for relevant
  practical experience

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The meaning of individual certification

• Individual certification does not mean
  certification of a company, of a product or of a
  system (like DIN ISO 9000 ff) but examination and
  confirmation of personal competencies.

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The meaning of individual certification

• DIN EN 45013 standard
• Assessment and recurrent check to confirm
  decision-making and responsibility of persons
• ISO/IEC 170242002 standard
• Internationally accepted procedures to confirm
  personal competencies

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Individual IT-certification

• A result of special quality approach in
  continuous
• IT-education
• Self-driven learning
• Individual learning content
• Learning being part of a real project
• Competence as a result of worked-based learning
  processes
• Project instead of traditional examination

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Certification process
certification agency
enterprise and providers of further education
certification
qualification
candidates / participants
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Two phases of the examination concept
Qualificationproject
Phase No. 1
Phase No. 2
further education process
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Certification process

• Phase No. 1
• Checking the compliance with the admission
  requirements
• Work process-oriented further education
• Phase No. 2
• Evaluation of the documentation
• Shop talk
• Release of the certificate

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Certification criteria

• Documentation accompanying the project
• Confirmation of having released at least four
  reflecting talks per year

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Certification criteria

• Necessary documents
• Layout of the project
• Description of the working environment
• Description of the qualification process
• Description of the steps in the work process
• Reflection of the process

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Approval of decision-making and responsibility
competence

• Professional competence by documentation of the
  process and by presentation of a shop talk
• Extra-functional competence by documentation of
  key situations and by presentation and shop talk

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Example 2 Bachelor of Science (honours) combined
studies (Transport and Logistics) Logistics
(excerpt)
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