Abstract:

The education of adults is in many occasions conceived as a basic education, focused mainly on social and personal fulfillment, but with limited possibilities for employability. However, adults have a great potential for employability if they receive adequate training, this being especially true for adults between 18 and 30 years old who left the education system and have not been able to access the labor market. The European Union, through its different Lifelong Learning Programs, and mainly through Erasmus Plus since 2014, has tried to promote Adult and Lifelong Education, not only due to social demands, but also due to the need of persons over 18 years old who neither study nor work to acquire key qualifications for the labor market as a mechanism to seek new production models. Among the new production models generated in recent years, the innovation and technology sector stands out significantly, since in 2018 it became one of the sectors with the largest growth and contracting capabilities. This sector has a wide variety of jobs with very diverse profiles, so it not only is a great opportunity in terms of real possibilities for employability, but also because it offers a striking and motivating objective for our beneficiaries, but in order to access these jobs, it is essential that they develop some specific skills. To do this, the project “FROM LITERACY TO DIGITAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL TRAINING” aims to generate a training itinerary adapted to each student that guides them from basic literacy stages to their digital and technological training, adapting the contents and materials to their prior knowledge so they develop skills and knowledge that facilitates their employability in high-tech companies. Its methodology focuses on the development of technological skills like scientific thinking, critical analysis, and digital skills by using a micro-learning structure. The main result of this project is a virtual training course with three educational levels, structured and approved by lifelong learning centers in Europe, and certified through the digital badge “DIGITAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL TRAINING DIPLOMA”, which is compatible with the training adult education study plan “DIGITAL LITERACY AND TECHNOLOGICAL TRAINING”.

In this communication we will present the methodology for the personalization of the course for each student, and examples of the exercises that are proposed to reach the training objectives.

Acknowledgments:
This work has been funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme within the project 2019-1-ES01-KA204-065750, Spanish Service for the Internationalization of Education (SEPIE).

Keywords:

Literacy, digital training, technological training, adults.