Online course: Multiculturalism in vocational guidance – Innovative tool for career counsellors’ professional development. Zuzanna Rejmer

Main aims of the workshop On line course as a tool of guidance officer's professional development – advantages and challenges Methodology – how to make best use of on line course Practice

Advantages and disadvantages Advantages: Portable and available where you are Saves time Offers flexibility Disadvantages: No live interactions – mainly one way communication Is’s difficult to learn through experience One needs strong self - motivation to learn and good time management skills

Education of adults and the online course Kolb's learning cycle CONCRETE EXPERIENCE Do something REFLECTION Think of it TESTING IN NEW SITUATIONS Do it differently FORMING ABSTRACT CONCEPTS Make it meaningful Learning process

Our methodology… How we designed the course to make the most of it. The structure of the course - Aim of the course - Participants - Time - Rules The main factors of success: Curiosity Engagement Various tasks Interactions with other participants The instructor

Some practice

Evaluation of the course -basic course To what extent the training has expanded your knowledge and enable the acquisition of new skills? - Very much – 38,5%, - Largely – 38,5%, To what extent do the methods and techniques used have helped you in the learning process? - Very much – 38,5%, - Largely – 46,2%,

Evaluation of the course -basic course The strongest points of the course  interesting and attractive materials,  ability to learn alt mine own pace  Contact and exchange of opinions with other students  consistent adherence to schedule  moderator The weakest points of the course  some technical problems,  lack of interactive educational tools,  lack of active moderator/ expert,  lack of various additional tasks (eg. case study)

One step forward… What new we introduced in second (advanced) part of the course The main factors of success: Curiosity Engagement Various tasks Interactions with other participants The instructor Experience – others and the participant’s Interactions (classes) with the experts

Some more practice

Evaluation of the course -advanced course To what extent the training has expanded your knowledge and enable the acquisition of new skills? - Very much – 33,33% - Largely – 55,56% To what extent do the methods and techniques used have helped you in the learning process? - Very much – 38,39% - Largely – 50%

Summary The most important factors which make the on line course successful: Curiosity Engagement Various tasks Interactions with other participants The instructor and Use of experience More interactions

Thank you for the attention Zuzanna Rejmer