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11162017 ITSVET Newsletter 3

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Project Overview Fourth ITSVET Partner meeting was held in Helsinki Business College on 8-962017All project partner organisations from Latvia Estonia and Finland were participating IT Security Curriculum framework was developed and decided in the meeting Inaddition there was an interesting discussion about IT Security learning materials whichturned out to be quite hard to build as the ICT security environment changes so rapidlyWe succeeded to agree basic principles for collecting the learning materials and dividethe tasks for each partner to develop the missing ones Beside the project meeting the group got familiar with the open ICT learningenvironment in Helsinki Business College The core learning method is based onSCRUM -pedagogy where students learn by doing various projects in the open learningenvironment In this project SCRUM- pedagogy will be utilized in teacherrsquos trainingbefore piloting the IT Security curriculum

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Adaptation of IT security specialist curriculum has begun Ramune Vananurm ITSVET Project Communication Specialist Foundation INNOVE Foundation Innove is coordinating the development and adaptation of IT SecuritySpecialist curriculum as part of the ITSVET project The English curriculum has been completed and passed the assessment of an expertgroup conducted in February and March The experts were practicing professionals andvocational teachers The proposals presented in the feedback process were discussedand taken into account by curriculum drafters from Latvia Finland and Estonia In the present stage of development we are adapting the curricula For this reason thecurricula has been translated into the languages of all countries participating in the

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project after which they are adapted to their own curriculum systems In Estonia forexample the existing IT systems curriculum is made compatible to and adjusted forcontinuous education based on elective specialisation At the initiative of Tallinn Polytechnic School we have started mapping the studymaterials for the curriculum Foundation Innove is also taking part in this work and aimsto map two modules out of four by winter In addition to mapping the preparation ofnew materials is already underway

Our international ITSVET team is working on learning resources Maria Mathiesen ITSVET Project Project Manager TPT Tallinn Polytechnic School ITSVET team is putting together learning resources for new ICT Security specialistcurriculum One of ITSVET project goals is to support new ICT Security specialist curriculum withsuitable learning resources In order to do that we have put together the team onspecialists from four different countries and six organizations Eight people haveactively looked through potentially suitable materials and chosen those which are mostsuitable for students for VET level This international team consists of teachers fromICT Security for VET and higher education level specialists from private sector who arefamiliar with private sector expectations and people from Qualification Authority All partners have gone through existing learning materials in order to see whichpackages already exist in their country in local language and which have been used orare suitable in English language During this process we have created 16 excel tableswhich are full of links book headings and descriptions The next step is to analyze which learning resources are missing and need to bedeveloped or translated We are continuing our work to reach the final goal and to offermost suitable learning resources for new ICT Security specialist curriculum




Developing Teaching Methodologies and Learning Resources for ICT curricula inVET Ants Sild ITSVET Project Project Manager BCS Koolitus AS In ITSVET project when planning the format and content of learning materials theimportant issue is to decide what teaching methodology will be used It is clear thematerials needed for lecturers and students depend on that Today especially in quickly changing ICT field preparing handbooks and materials tostudy the theory is unfeasible Especially in VET the problem based learning-by-doingapproach is unquestionably the preferred one In developing the materials for ICT security specialist curriculum ITSVET project madethe clear choice that theoretical background materials will be left for ldquointernetrdquo andlecturers And for every learning outcome the practical lab tasks and manuals will bedeveloped Nevertheless the teacher faces the task to choose and develop their teachingmethodology After studying a wide selection of different approaches from flippedclassroom to problem based we arrived at Srum approach applied to teaching andlearning The original Scrum started in the 80s for agile IT product development projects Scrumwas developed for educational purposes in parallel in Netherlands and Finland In theNetherlands Ellen Reenhorst and Jan van Rossum ScrumAtSchool (or EduScrum) InFinland the method was introduced by Helsinki Business College (also a partner inITSVET project) by OppiScrum family Otto Burman Virpi Peuralinna PirkkaRuishalme Linda Salminen Helsinki Business College staff have successfully used the method for teaching (calledScrumAtSchool) achieving the result that students pass courses better than beforeMore background about the methods can be found at httpeduscrumnlenhome(English) and httpoppiscrumfi (Finnish) For introducing the methology in Estonia a 2-day course on Basics of ScrumAtSchooland hands-on practice with the tool Trainers were from Helsinki Business College - Linda Salminen Lecturer ScrumPedagogy and Harri Hautala Lecturer in Information and Communication Technology




World Skills Expert MScEcon Dip ICT The trainers presented the method and reflected on experiences on the benefits itbrings to the student learning process and teaching - how to use ScrumAtSchool toolseg form student teams sprints and task lists 23 participants from ITSVET project partners and 8 different VET schools from Estoniawere present at Kehtna VET Education Center on8-9022017 After the training the participants comments were

ldquoNow going back to school we can surprise the students with a new fun way oflearningrdquoScrumAtSchool is an engaging transparent and efficient team-based learningmethodrdquoScrumAtSchool provides a hands-on practical step-to-step approach howimplement problem-focused learning Usually such models and methods stay ona very general ground where teachers must start inventing their own practicesScrumAtSchool provides a clear proven framework that is natural and wellunderstandable for IT studentsrdquo

Concentrating in front of earlier Principals from Helsinki Business College

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Summary After research and curriculum devepment phase the new new learning

materials will be planned and created teachers coached and pilot tested Finally

educational actors will include the outcomes to their normal activities




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Happy ITSVET group gathered together for photo before home trip

Adaptation of IT security specialist curriculum has begun Ramune Vananurm ITSVET Project Communication Specialist Foundation INNOVE Foundation Innove is coordinating the development and adaptation of IT SecuritySpecialist curriculum as part of the ITSVET project The English curriculum has been completed and passed the assessment of an expertgroup conducted in February and March The experts were practicing professionals andvocational teachers The proposals presented in the feedback process were discussedand taken into account by curriculum drafters from Latvia Finland and Estonia In the present stage of development we are adapting the curricula For this reason thecurricula has been translated into the languages of all countries participating in the
















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