Strategy development in the VET sector

The GROOVE partners are working on a practical manual for VET providers/trainers to advance their professional practices towards digitalization. The Toolkit aims to provide knowledge and understanding of the digitalization in the Vocational Education Sector (VET), the importance of vital digital skills for the educators and learners, and how to develop of a digitalization strategy.

What is a strategy

Strategy is an organisation’s higher-level plan or a set of consecutive combined actions towards the achievement of a long–term aim. Such plans reflect the organizational goals and objectives. The strategy effects can only be assessed in the long-term and often include the vision and mission of the organization. Strategies are also closely interrelated to organizational policies and procedures.

Policies refer to a set of guidelines, standards, rules and regulations designed and implemented by an organization to support rational decision-making for executing the strategy, with the ultimate goal to facilitate and support the achievement of the strategy’s objectives. Policies answer the question “How your vision and objectives will be achieved?”.

Procedures refer to the daily actions and activities that materialize policies. In other words, procedures refer to the ways the organization achieves the predefined goals - “What are you doing to realize policies”. Procedures include training and tools, instruments, and devices, as well as specific steps that need to be taken.

Further information on the stage of developing strategies in the VET sector such as Defining Target Groups, Market/Needs Analysis, and Mapping stakeholders can be found in the GROOVE project Toolkit.

The aim of this toolkit is to build the capacity of VET professionals to design and develop a digital action plan. Also, it contains strategies that aim to enhance educators’ digital skills, and learners’ digital literacy.

Learn more about the project: www.grooveproject.eu

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